Announce new use case and tools

docs/_blog/2025-12-05/whats-new-labid-r-profile-crates.md

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+---
+title:  "What's new: FAIR data management use case, R package, Profile Crate tool"
+author: ["Eli Chadwick"]
+date: 2025-12-05
+related_pages:
+    use_cases: [labid, dataplant, nf-prov] # should match items in pages/use_cases
+---
+
+
+## Use case updates
+
+A new use case has been added to the RO-Crate website:
+* [Lab Integrated Data (LabID)]({{baseurl}}{% link pages/use_cases/labid.md %}) (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]({{baseurl}}{% link pages/use_cases/nf-prov.md %}) use case was also updated.
+
+## Tool updates
+
+Two new RO-Crate tools have been published:
+* [`rocrateR`](https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-r) (developed by Roberto Villegas-Diaz) - an R package for creating, manipulating and reading RO-Crates, available on [CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rocrateR) 
+* [`RO-Crate Profile Crate Creator`](https://github.com/nfdi4plants/ROCratePCC) (developed by Lukas Weil and Eli Chadwick) - a helper package for creating RO-Crate [Profile Crates](https://www.researchobject.org/ro-crate/specification/1.2/profiles.html#profile-crate), a type of RO-Crate that represents an RO-Crate profile. The package is available in [.NET](https://www.nuget.org/packages/ROCratePCC/), [Python](https://pypi.org/project/rocratepcc/), and [JavaScript](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nfdi4plants/rocratepcc).

docs/_data/tools_list.yml

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       url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nfdi4plants/rocratepcc
     - name: NuGet package
       url: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ROCratePCC/
+
+- name: nf-prov
+  description: Nextflow plugin to render Workflow Run RO-Crates for pipeline runs
+  url: https://github.com/nextflow-io/nf-prov
+  status: production
+
+- name: nf-core RO-Crate tool
+  description: Nextflow tool to generate a Workflow RO-Crate for a Nextflow pipeline
+  url: https://nf-co.re/docs/nf-core-tools/pipelines/rocrate
+  status: production
+
+- name: rocrateR
+  description: R library for creating, manipulating and reading RO-Crates
+  url: https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-r/
+  status: beta
+  subitems:
+    - name: CRAN package
+      url: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rocrateR/index.html
+    - name: GitHub source code
+      url: https://github.com/ResearchObject/ro-crate-r/

docs/pages/use_cases/nf-prov.md

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 The `results` directory will contain the pipeline output and an `ro-crate-metadata.json` file with the RO-Crate metadata.
 
+## Other RO-Crate support in Nextflow
+
+The [nf-core RO-Crate tool](https://nf-co.re/docs/nf-core-tools/pipelines/rocrate) can generate a [Workflow Testing RO-Crate](https://crs4.github.io/life_monitor/workflow_testing_ro_crate) for a Nextflow pipeline. Workflow Testing RO-Crate is a specialization of [Workflow RO-Crate](https://about.workflowhub.eu/Workflow-RO-Crate/) that supports additional metadata related to the testing of computational workflows, allowing workflows to be automatically tested and monitored by the [LifeMonitor](./life-monitor.md) service.
+
+The nf-core RO-Crate tool utilises the [repo2rocrate library](https://github.com/crs4/repo2rocrate), which also supports [Galaxy](./galaxy.md) and [Snakemake](https://snakemake.github.io).
+
 
 ## Resources
 
 * [nf-prov GitHub repository](https://github.com/nextflow-io/nf-prov)
+* [nf-core RO-Crate tool](https://nf-co.re/docs/nf-core-tools/pipelines/rocrate)
 * [Workflow Run RO-Crate](https://www.researchobject.org/workflow-run-crate/)
+* [Workflow Testing RO-Crate](https://crs4.github.io/life_monitor/workflow_testing_ro_crate)