Nextflow turns five! Happy birthday!
Nextflow is growing up. The past week marked five years since the first commit of the project on GitHub. Like a parent reflecting on their child attending school for the first time, we know reaching...
View ArticleConda support has landed!
Nextflow aims to ease the development of large scale, reproducible workflows allowingdevelopers to focus on the main application logic and to rely on best community tools and best practices.For this...
View ArticleClarification about the Nextflow license
Over past week there was some discussion on social media regarding the Nextflow license and its impact on users' workflow applications. … don’t use Nextflow, yo. https://t.co/Paip5W1wgG— Konrad Rudolph...
View ArticleNextflow meets Dockstore
This post is co-authored with Denis Yuen, lead of the Dockstore project at the Ontario Institute for Cancer ResearchOne key feature of Nextflow is the ability to automatically pull and execute a...
View ArticleGoodbye zero, Hello Apache!
Today marks an important milestone in the Nextflow project. We are thrilled to announce three important changes to better meet users’ needs and ground the project on a solid foundation upon which to...
View ArticleBringing Nextflow to Google Cloud Platform with WuXi NextCODE
This is a guest post authored by Halli Bjornsson, Head of Product Development Operations at WuXi NextCODE and Jonathan Sheffi, Product Manager, Biomedical Data at Google Cloud. Google Cloud and WuXi...
View ArticleEdge release 19.03: The Sequence Read Archive & more!
It's time for the monthly Nextflow release for March, edge version 19.03. This is another great release with some cool new features, bug fixes and improvements.SRA channel factoryThis sees the...
View ArticleNextflow 19.04.0 stable release is out!
We are excited to announce the new Nextflow 19.04.0 stable release!This version includes numerous bug fixes, enhancement and new features.Rich loggingIn this release, we are making the new interactive...
View ArticleOne more step towards Nextflow modules
The ability to create components, libraries or module files has been among the most requested feature ever over the years. For this reason, today we are very happy to announce that a preview...
View ArticleDemystifying Nextflow resume
This two-part blog aims to help users understand Nextflow’s powerful caching mechanism. Part one describes how it works whilst part two will focus on execution provenance and troubleshooting.Task...
View ArticleTroubleshooting Nextflow resume
This two-part blog aims to help users understand Nextflow’s powerful caching mechanism. Part one describes how it works whilst part two will focus on execution provenance and troubleshooting. You can...
View ArticleEasy provenance reporting
Continuing our series on understanding Nextflow resume, we wanted to delve deeper to show how you can report which tasks contribute to a given workflow output.Easy provenance reportsWhen provided with...
View ArticleNextflow DSL 2 is here!
We are thrilled to announce the stable release of Nextflow DSL 2 as part of the latest 20.07.1 version! Nextflow DSL 2 represents a major evolution of the Nextflow language and makes it possible to...
View ArticleThe Nextflow CLI - tricks and treats!
For most developers, the command line is synonymous with agility. While tools such as Nextflow Tower are opening up the ecosystem to a whole new set of users, the Nextflow CLI remains a bedrock for...
View ArticleMore syntax sugar for Nextflow developers!
The latest Nextflow version 2020.10.0 is the first stable release running on Groovy 3. The first benefit of this change is that now Nextflow can be compiled and run on any modern Java virtual machine,...
View ArticleLearning Nextflow in 2020
With the year nearly over, we thought it was about time to pull together the best-of-the-best guide for learning Nextflow in 2020. These resources will support anyone in the journey from total noob to...
View ArticleIntroducing Nextflow for Azure Batch
When the Nextflow project was created, one of the main drivers was to enable reproducible data pipelines that could be deployed across a wide range of execution platforms with minimal effort as well as...
View Article6 Tips for Setting Up Your Nextflow Dev Environment
This blog follows up the Learning Nextflow in 2020 blog post.This guide is designed to walk you through a basic development setup for writing Nextflow pipelines.1. InstallationNextflow runs on any...
View Article5 Nextflow Tips for HPC Users
Nextflow is a powerful tool for developing scientific workflows for use on HPC systems. It provides a simple solution to deploy parallelized workloads at scale using an elegant reactive/functional...
View ArticleFive more tips for Nextflow user on HPC
In May we blogged about Five Nextflow Tips for HPC Users and now we continue the series with five additional tips for deploying Nextflow with on HPC batch schedulers.1. Use the scratch directiveTo...
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