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Provenance: Human clinical and health data

HL7 FHIR Provenance

HL7 FHIR is an interoperability standard for healthcare information exchange between systems. FHIR aims to define the key entities involved in healthcare information exchange as resources.

FHIR provides support for expression of provenance information of resources. Provenance of a resource is “a record that describes entities and processes involved in producing and delivering or otherwise influencing that resource”, and “tracks information about the activity that created, revised, deleted, or signed a version of a resource, describing the entities and agents involved”.

The provenance part of HL7 FHIR extends W3C PROV.

Relevant tools

  • Galaxy: Open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. Whether on the free public server or your own instance, you can perform, reproduce, and share complete analyses.
  • Common Workflow Language (CWL): An open standard for describing workflows that are build from command line tools
  • Snakemake: Snakemake is a framework for data analysis workflow execution
  • StreamFlow: Container-native workflow manager for hybrid infrastructures
  • Sapporo WES: Implementation of Workflow Execution Service (WES) or so-called Workflow-as-a-Service.
  • COMPSs: COMP Superscalar (COMPSs) is a task-based programming model which aims to ease the development of applications for distributed infrastructures, such as large High-Performance clusters (HPC), clouds and container managed clusters.

More information

RDMkit is the Research Data Management toolkit for Life Sciences describing best practices and guidelines to help you make your data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable)

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Common Workflow Language (CWL) An open standard for describing workflows that are build from command line tools General guidelines Standards/Databases Training
COMPSs COMP Superscalar (COMPSs) is a task-based programming model which aims to ease the development of applications for distributed infrastructures, such as large High-Performance clusters (HPC), clouds and container managed clusters. General guidelines Tool info
Galaxy Open, web-based platform for data intensive biomedical research. Whether on the free public server or your own instance, you can perform, reproduce, and share complete analyses. Human biomolecular data Pathogen characterisation General guidelines Using the ENA data sub... Tool info Training
Sapporo WES Implementation of Workflow Execution Service (WES) or so-called Workflow-as-a-Service. General guidelines Tool info
Snakemake Snakemake is a framework for data analysis workflow execution Human biomolecular data Pathogen characterisation General guidelines Tool info Training
StreamFlow Container-native workflow manager for hybrid infrastructures General guidelines
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