This is a wonderful thread and thanks to all. In bioinformatics, the web of dependencies is so dense and brittle, that beyond provenance there is increasing interest in sharing compute environments in a reproducible way using automated workflow frameworks and virtualization/containerization. In effect, the downstream users saying "please document your provenance - and (since I'm too impatient to read it) also please gather dependent data/programs/workflows into a an environment that I would actually use". This idea is, of course, distinct from provenance per se, so I don't want to muddy this thread - but it seems related, and worth mentioning.
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