Bioschemas Workflow Profile

We are close to releasing our new pipeline schema which describe input parameters. Through chatting to people at BOSC 🍐 I've become aware of a project called Bioschemas which works with schema.org to publish official standardised ways to describe things.

They are currently developing a new schema standard which is specifically for computational workflows: https://bioschemas.org/profiles/Workflow/

Aspects of this schema seem to share a lot of overlap with the schema structure that we're working with already. It could be interesting to see if we can migrate our schema structure to the Bioschemas structure to adhere to this new community standard. This would help the visibility of the nf-core pipelines across the web and in other projects (eg. WorkflowHub).

This will be conditional on it being relatively fast and painless to implement and it still providing all of the functionality that we need (eg. custom fields, grouping of input parameters and so on).

Start with the Bioschemas Workflow profile and the existing pipeline schema referenced in the issue. Compare whether custom fields and grouped input parameters are supported, then establish a concrete migration scope and acceptance criteria. Done means the feasibility and required changes are agreed.