Describing requirements

Overview

Teaching: 0 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• Key question (FIXME)

Objectives

• identify all the requirements of a tool and define them in the tool description

• use runtime parameters to access information about the runtime environment

• define environment variables necessary for execution

• use secondaryFiles or InitialWorkDirRequirement to access files in the same directory as another referenced file

• use $(runtime.cores) to define the number of cores to be used

• use type: File, instead of a string, to reference a filepath

By the end of this episode, learners should be able to describe all the requirements for running a tool

Key Points

• First key point. Brief Answer to questions. (FIXME)