broadinstitute/cromwell
Scientific workflow engine designed for simplicity & scalability. Trivially transition between one off use cases to massive scale production environments observed · 2026-10-09
Health v2 · maintenance only
76/100
- Activity 95
- Release rhythm 37
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 93.0
- age_days: 4204
- days_rel: 263
- days_push: 35
- n_releases_24m: 5
Adoption not part of the score
1083 stars · 381 forks observed · 2026-10-09
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Cromwell is an open-source Workflow Management System from the Broad Institute that executes scientific workflows written in WDL (Workflow Description Language). It scales from single one-off runs to massive production environments via modular backends for cloud (AWS Batch, GCP Batch) and HPC execution.
Use cases
- run WDL bioinformatics workflows at scale
- execute genomics pipelines on AWS or GCP
- self-host a workflow engine for scientific pipelines
- transition from local one-off workflow runs to production-scale execution
- run WDL workflows on HPC clusters
- manage reproducible bioinformatics pipeline execution
When to choose
- your pipelines are written in WDL
- you need to scale scientific workflows from a laptop to cloud or HPC
- you want a battle-tested engine with Broad Institute backing and Terra compatibility
When to avoid
- you need CWL support (dropped in Cromwell 80+)
- you prefer Nextflow or Snakemake ecosystems
- you need vendor support for non-AWS/GCP backends, which are community-maintained
Facets
application · maturity active
workflow-automation scheduling container-runtime cloud bioinformatics cloud-computing jvm cloud self-hosted wdl workflow-engine workflow-management-system hpc ga4gh scala scientific-workflows backend-pluggable data-engineering automation docker linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/broadinstitute/cromwell · fetched 2026-10-09 · c355ffb2b613
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| broadinstitute/cromwell | main | 76 |
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