Our informatics platform has some support for provenance built in: https://docs.synapse.org/articles/provenance.html (of course you have to be storing all your work in Synapse to take advantage of it)
On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 7:17 AM Morrell, Thomas E. (Tom) < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Chris, > > I think providing a environment that others can use is an important part > of the provenance question. It’s one thing to document dependencies, but > in order to really make sure they are correct and complete you need to test > them in a compute environment. https://mybinder.org/ is a great and free > example of this setup. If you provide dependencies in standard text files, > everyone can re-run your results (in python, R, others) in a virtual > compute environment. Showing researchers the benefits of capturing > provenance information is an important part of driving adoption. > > Best, > > Tom Morrell > Research Data Specialist, Caltech Library > > On Aug 13, 2018, at 6:36 AM, Chris Gates <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > Best, > cg > > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> > Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Te1cade367c0ab4ee-M56d1de7821704659d5f162e5> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Te1cade367c0ab4ee-M8ddbe747d2d9b66c994c2f9d Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
