_episodes/07-resources.md

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   2 title: " Resources for further learning"
   3 teaching: 10
   4 exercises: 0
   5 questions:
   6 - "Where should I go to learn more?"
   7 objectives:
   8 - "Become a part of the CWL community."
   9 keypoints:
  10 - "Learn more advanced techniques from CWL user guide, by asking questions on the CWL forum and chat channel, and reading the specification."
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  12
  13 Hopefully you now have a basic grasp of the steps involved in
  14 developing a CWL workflow. There are many resources out there to
  15 further help you use CWL to solve your own scientific workflow
  16 problems.
  17
  18 # CWL Reference
  19
  20 [Main CWL web page](https://commonwl.org)
  21
  22 [User guide](https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/)
  23
  24 [Specification](https://www.commonwl.org/v1.2/)
  25
  26 [Github organization](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/)
  27
  28 # CWL Community
  29
  30 The [CWL Forum](https://cwl.discourse.group/) is is best place to ask questions
  31
  32 [Gitter (chat)](https://gitter.im/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language)
  33
  34 [Weekly video calls](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/eu-us-timezone-cwl-video-chat/260)
  35
  36 # Software resources
  37
  38 Github organization for [repositories of CWL tool and workflow descriptions](https://github.com/common-workflow-library/),
  39 including [bio-cwl-tools](https://github.com/common-workflow-library/bio-cwl-tools).
  40
  41 [BioContainers](https://biocontainers.pro/)
  42
  43 [Search for CWL files](https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Acwl+cwlVersion) on
  44 Github, try adding the name of a tool you are interested in to the
  45 search