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title: " Resources for further learning"
teaching: 10
exercises: 0
questions:
- "Where should I go to learn more?"
objectives:
- "Become a part of the CWL community."
keypoints:
- "Learn more advanced techniques from CWL user guide, by asking questions on the CWL forum and chat channel, and reading the specification."
---

Hopefully you now have a basic grasp of the steps involved in
developing a CWL workflow. There are many resources out there to
further help you use CWL to solve your own scientific workflow
problems.

# CWL Reference

[Main CWL web page](https://commonwl.org)

[User guide](https://www.commonwl.org/user_guide/)

[Specification](https://www.commonwl.org/v1.2/)

[Github organization](https://github.com/common-workflow-language/)

# CWL Community

The [CWL Forum](https://cwl.discourse.group/) is is best place to ask questions

[Gitter (chat)](https://gitter.im/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language)

[Weekly video calls](https://cwl.discourse.group/t/eu-us-timezone-cwl-video-chat/260)

# Software resources

Github organization for [repositories of CWL tool and workflow descriptions](https://github.com/common-workflow-library/),
including [bio-cwl-tools](https://github.com/common-workflow-library/bio-cwl-tools).

[BioContainers](https://biocontainers.pro/)

[Search for CWL files](https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Acwl+cwlVersion) on
Github, try adding the name of a tool you are interested in to the
search