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WDL

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is WDL?

WDL (Workflow Description Language) is a human-readable, human-writable language designed to express data processing workflows with a human-friendly syntax. It is commonly used to describe workflows in genomics, but can be used for other scientific domains. WDL focuses on portability and reproducibility of workflows.

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What other technologies are related to WDL?

WDL Competitor Technologies

Common Workflow Language is a competing workflow specification language that aims to standardize workflow descriptions for portability.

mentioned alongside WDL in 47% (177) of relevant job posts

Nextflow is a competing workflow management system and DSL for data-intensive computational pipelines.

mentioned alongside WDL in 10% (338) of relevant job posts

Snakemake is a competing workflow management system based on Python, used to create reproducible and scalable data analyses.

mentioned alongside WDL in 10% (193) of relevant job posts

WDL Complementary Technologies

Singularity is a containerization technology that can be used to package and run WDL workflows in a portable and reproducible manner.

mentioned alongside WDL in 2% (73) of relevant job posts

Python can be used to pre- or post-process data for WDL workflows, or for creating tooling around WDL.

mentioned alongside WDL in 0% (437) of relevant job posts

Docker is a containerization technology that can be used to package and run WDL workflows in a portable and reproducible manner.

mentioned alongside WDL in 0% (212) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention WDL?

Job function

Jobs mentioning WDL

Orgs mentioning WDL

Scientist

0% (179) job posts

5 organizations

Biologist

0% (172) job posts

8 organizations

Data, Analytics & Machine Learning

0% (157) job posts

2 organizations

Bioinformatics

2% (155) job posts

71 organizations

Bioinformatician

3% (98) job posts

34 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning WDL?

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Industry

Matching Teams

Matching People

Health Care and Social Assistance

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Other Services (except Public Administration)

Broad Institute

Manufacturing

New York Genome Center

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Health Care and Social Assistance

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