Show HN: Sprocket – A bioinformatics workflow engine in Rust, from St. Jude

Category: devtools

Tags: bioinformatics, workflow-engine, wdl, rust, cli, lsp

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Sprocket is a Rust-based bioinformatics workflow engine implementing the Workflow Description Language (WDL), with a comprehensive CLI for static analysis, formatting, linting, validation, and execution of WDL workflows. It targets high-performance execution (20,000+ concurrent jobs) and includes a language server for IDE integration, making it a modern alternative to existing WDL interpreters like Cromwell.

Target audience: bioinformaticians, computational biologists, devops for life sciences

Repository: https://sprocket.bio/ · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 221 stars

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