Cohen-Boulakia S. auteur aut IRD Belhajjame K. auteur aut IRD Collin O. auteur aut IRD Chopard J. auteur aut IRD Froidevaux C. auteur aut IRD Gaignard A. auteur aut IRD Hinsen K. auteur aut IRD Larmande Pierre auteur aut IRD Le Brass Y. auteur aut IRD Lemoine F. auteur aut IRD Mareuil F. auteur aut IRD Menager H. auteur aut IRD Pradal C. auteur aut IRD Blanchet C. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access With the development of new experimental technologies, biologists are faced with an avalanche of data to be computationally analyzed for scientific advancements and discoveries to emerge. Faced with the complexity of analysis pipelines, the large number of computational tools, and the enormous amount of data to manage, there is compelling evidence that many if not most scientific discoveries will not stand the test of time: increasing the reproducibility of computed results is of paramount importance. The objective we set out in this paper is to place scientific workflows in the context of reproducibility. To do so, we define several kinds of reproducibility that can be reached when scientific workflows are used to perform experiments. We characterize and define the criteria that need to be catered for by reproducibility-friendly scientific workflow systems, and use such criteria to place several representative and widely used workflow systems and companion tools within such a framework. We also discuss the remaining challenges posed by reproducible scientific workflows in the life sciences. Our study was guided by three use cases from the life science domain involving in silico experiments. specialized Reproducibility Scientific workflows Provenance Packaging environments 122 020 75 284-298 2017 0167-739X https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010070287 10.1016/j.future.2017.01.012 0167-739X [F B010070287] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010070287 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2017/08/010070287.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2017-09-05 2023-07-11 fdi:010070287 fre