# Advanced Topics

### Conversion tools

If you want your workflow to be available to both WDL and CWL communities, you can use conversion tools to aid in the process. It is best practice to review if the conversion was correctly done.&#x20;

* [cwl2wdl](https://github.com/adamstruck/cwl2wdl)
* [Wdl2cwl](https://github.com/common-workflow-lab/wdl2cwl)

### Running workflows outside of the BioData Catalyst ecosystem:

If you are interested in using Docker on your High-Performance Compute cluster, you may find the [Singularity](https://docs.dockstore.org/en/develop/advanced-topics/docker-alternatives.html) tool helpful.

You can use the workflow runner [Toil](https://github.com/DataBiosphere/toil) for large parallelized CWL jobs in the AWS and/or Google clouds, locally, on Kubernetes, and/or high-performance computer clusters.  [Toil](https://github.com/DataBiosphere/toil) is built for researchers and should run any CWL 1.0 workflow from Dockstore at scale.  [Toil](https://github.com/DataBiosphere/toil) also has some experimental support for WDL.


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://bdcatalyst.gitbook.io/biodata-catalyst-documentation/written-documentation/community-tools-and-integration-1/bring-your-own-tool-s-to-biodata-catalyst/advanced-topics.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.
