WDL

English

Noun

WDL (plural WDLs)

1. (computing) Initialism of workflow description language.
   • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI:

     We describe the main automated and manual steps taken before, during and after assembly. A combined set of workflow description language (WDL) formatted assembly workflows is available from Dockstore that captures each of the steps for filtering adapter-contained reads and running Hifiasm[.]