How to know which analysis results were produced with which analysis code?

If the analysis produces tabular output shall we put information such as processing parameters as extra columns into the tables?

We discussed that it would be useful to have a small table metadata file. If we can agree on this, that would also be a natural place to put version information. However, how to concatenate these metadata files?

If, for each analysis run, we create a new output folder, then having a file in this folder could make sense; this is how they do it at NFDI4PLANT.

In terms of nextflow, the nf-core module specification is relevant: