Research Object Crate

The keywords “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “SHOULD”, etc. are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

All nf-core pipelines MUST come with their own Research Object (RO) Crate.

Rationale

RO Crate is an open-source standard which we use to describe our pipelines and their components in a structured way and helps with automated provenance tracking.

Note

The RO Crate generated with nf-core/tools describes the pipeline as a whole, not pipeline runs. For that kind of provenance, use the new nf-prov plugin, which is currently in development.

More information can be found here.