Scipy 2016 sprint items

Beginner

• Detect and improve coverage with unit tests
• Notify user that a required tool dependency is missing
• Add duecredit support
• Add a container-based alternative for command line or other tools
• Export Nipype workflow in X {CWL, NextFlow} and execute with Y {Toil, NextFlow}
• Force isolated execution and remove reliance on shared disks
• update documentation to use responsive layouts
• minimize dependencies

Intermediate

• Testing framework for underlying tools
• Analyze the execution graph to group and execute subgraphs by some criteria
  • disconnected subgraphs
  • chains of nodes
• Query tools on provenance graphs (RDF+SPARQL with rdflib)
• Create a Nipype workflow for scikit-learn cross-validation
• Create an algorithm comparison workflow and output dashboard
• Compare and contrast with capabilities with other workflow tools (e.g., Toil, Nextflow)
• Add support for docker and/or singularity containers

Advanced

• Engine refactoring (nipype engine 3.0)