The following is courtesy @heuermh

In nf-core, it is a best-practice (and generated by the nf-core getting-started template) to capture software versions

https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/blob/09e8214704d81332ad1c391dc8d72f801c8def23/main.nf#L370

echo $workflow.manifest.version &> v_ngi_rnaseq.txt
echo $workflow.nextflow.version &> v_nextflow.txt
fastqc --version &> v_fastqc.txt

scrape_software_versions.py &> software_versions_mqc.yaml

I'm not confidently sure how this file is used … looks like the multiqc tool may use it to generate an HTML report?

https://github.com/nf-core/rnaseq/blob/09e8214704d81332ad1c391dc8d72f801c8def23/main.nf#L1318

file ('software_versions/*') from software_versions_yaml.collect()