Packaging BioCompute Objects using RO-Crate

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Tutorial and specification for packaging IEEE 2791-2020 (BioCompute Objects/BCOs) as RO-Crate Research Objects.

BioCompute Object (BCO) is a standard (IEEE 2791-2020) for describing computational workflows for regularory submission, e.g. a genomics workflow as part of personalized medicine.

RO-Crate is a community-based specification for research data packaging of Research Objects with rich metadata, based on open standards and vocabularies like JSON-LD and schema.org.

BCO RO-Crate is the combination of these two approaches, packaging a BCO and the workflow it describes in a RO-Crate.

This tutorial is based on an exemplar run of the Nextflow workflow nf-core/chipseq version 1.2.1 using test inputs, capture the results in a BCO which we then describe further as an RO-Crate, and finally package all the files using BagIt.

See also presentation.