What's new: FAIR data management use case, R package, Profile Crate tool
5 December 2025 | By Eli Chadwick
Use case updates
A new use case has been added to the RO-Crate website:
- Lab Integrated Data (LabID) (written by Laurent Thomas) is a FAIR data management platform that can import and export workflows and workflow runs as RO-Crates
The nf-prov use case was also updated.
Tool updates
Two new RO-Crate tools have been published:
rocrateR(developed by Roberto Villegas-Diaz) - an R package for creating, manipulating and reading RO-Crates, available on CRANRO-Crate Profile Crate Creator(developed by Lukas Weil and Eli Chadwick) - a helper package for creating RO-Crate Profile Crates, a type of RO-Crate that represents an RO-Crate profile. The package is available in .NET, Python, and JavaScript.
Related use cases
DataPLANT`s mission is to provide a sustainable and well annotated data management platform for plant sciences.
LabID is an all-in-one research data management platform for life sciences institutes. It uses RO-Crate as a format to import/export workflows and workflow runs.
nf-prov is a Nextflow plugin to generate provenance information for pipeline runs. It includes support for the Workflow Run RO-Crate format.