Structuring research methods and data with the research object model: genomics workflows as a case study

Table 1 RO items checklist

Research object item	Requirement	RO ontology term
Hypothesis or Research question	Should	roterms: Hypothesis/roterms:Research Question
Workflow sketch	Should	roterms:Sketch
One or more workflows	Must	wfdesc:Workflow
Web services of the workflow	Must	wfdesc:Process
Example input data	Must	roterms:exampleValue
Provenance of workflow runs	Must	wfprov:WorkflowRun
Example results	Must	roterms:Result
Conclusions	Must	roterms:Conclusion

RO items for a workflow-based experiment annotated with the appropriate term from the Minim vocabulary.

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