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State of the Workflow 2024 Community Survey Results: Insights from 600+ Nextflow users about the state of workflow management for scientific data analysis

Call for grants 2021 aimed at R&D Projects in AI and other digital technologies and their integration into value chains

An overview of Data Studios - a new feature in Seqera Platform that enables analysts and data scientists to add interactive envrionments.

Today marks a major milestone in that journey as we release two new free and open resources for the community: Seqera Pipelines and Seqera Containers.

nf-core/riboseq: A collaboration between Altos Labs and Seqera

For organizations operating in the cloud, managing spending is an ongoing concern. In Flexera’s annual State of the Cloud Report for 2023…

Containers are essential components in reproducible scientific workflows. They enable applications to be easily packaged and distributed…

This is a joint blog post from Harshil Patel of Seqera, Rosi Bajari, and Bryan Lajoie of Element Biosciences describing a new integration…

Introduction While solutions such as s3fs-fuse and Goofys that present a POSIX-like file system interface over object storage aren’t new…

The style and code powering the HTML MultiQC report has remained largely the same since it was first released in 2015. The world has moved…

This is a guest blog post from Sateesh Peri from MemVerge highlighting the flexibility and level of third-party integrations possible using…

Last week, the American Society of Human and Genetics held its annual meeting in Washington, DC, running Nov 1-5, 2023. The meeting drew…

At the recent Nextflow Summit, during his talk on the modern biotech stack, Seqera co-founder and CEO Evan Floden described important new…

We are delighted to announce that Seqera’s Data Explorer is now available in Public Preview in Seqera Platform! The Data Explorer lets you…

We have a new logo, a new design, and many exciting improvements in store for you! Four years after our initial launch of Tower in 2019, and…

I’m excited to announce that I’m joining Seqera as Lead Developer Advocate. My mission is to support the growth of the Nextflow user…

Nextflow enables completely hands off pipeline execution, with each process and the execution order written as code and deployed as a single…

Run your first analysis pipeline in under 30 minutes Nextflow continues to grow in popularity. Today, the open-source workflow manager is…

MultiQC is an open-source bioinformatics tool used to generate quality-control HTML reports from analysis logs. It understands outputs from…

It is no secret that cloud computing is on the rise. According to an April 2023 report by Research and Markets, the global market for drug…

“Nextflow” and “machine learning” are not topics that are typically seen together. Nextflow is usually associated with bioinformatics, while…

The partnership is aimed at boosting research productivity in biotech and healthcare When it comes to maximizing research productivity, life…

In March, we ran our annual State of the Workflow Community survey to get a sense of activities and preferences in the Nextflow user…

Introduction The last 12 months have been nothing short of a revolution within AI. In particular, the widespread adoption of ChatGPT from…

The Seqera blog usually focuses on topics related to Nextflow and Nextflow Tower. While Nextflow gets most of the attention as our flagship…

This is a special year for Nextflow, as we will be celebrating in a couple of weeks its 10th anniversary. With a vibrant community of over…

Using genetic sequencing to identify pathogens and respond to outbreaks is hardly new. Public Health Authorities (PHAs) routinely use…

Introduction Running data-intensive pipelines at scale can be complex, particularly when handling the distributed file storage and data…

In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has clear momentum. While Kubernetes has long been a hot topic with developers, it is…

Nextflow Tower Enterprise version 22.3 brings a host of new features, services, and improved cloud provider support. Google Cloud Batch…

About containers and Nextflow If you have worked in bioinformatics for any time, you have almost certainly come across containers. As a…

By: Venkata Kampana, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and Dr. Dawn Heisey-Grove, Public Health Analytics Leader, AWS. Genomics is the study…

Nextflow is a bioinformatics workflow manager that provides a robust command line interface for the management and execution of pipelines…

Suppose you’ve been working on a production pipeline for months. You’ve carefully crafted containers optimized for each application…

In the first article in this series, we looked at Azure Batch, described some key concepts, and provided a step-by-step to using Azure Batch…

A powerful new way to organize and track pipelines, runs, actions, and more in Nextflow Tower. We’re excited to announce new capabilities…

In a recent article, we looked at AWS Batch and provided details about the inner workings of the integration. In this article, we do a…

In the first article in this series, we looked at AWS Batch, described some key concepts, and explained the Nextflow execution model. In the…

In the first of this series of articles on Nextflow and AWS Batch, we looked at AWS Batch, describe some key concepts and explained the…

The word omics refers to the high throughput measurement of particular biological molecules. For example, genomics is the study of all…

Easy access to scalable cloud resources is a game-changer for organizations engaged in life sciences research. By running portable and…

One of the reasons for Nextflow’s popularity is that it decouples pipeline logic from underlying execution environments. This, in…

DRAGEN is a platform provided by Illumina that offers accurate, comprehensive, and efficient secondary analysis of next-generation…

With 384 responses, we received record-breaking participation in our latest State of the Workflow community survey. We are thrilled to…

In the modern scenario of credentials-driven access to data resources, Nextflow users frequently need to safely transmit sensitive…

Introduction I’m really excited to announce that after eight wonderful years at SciLifeLab, I will soon be starting a new position at Seqera…

The Nextflow community has continued to grow over the past year with over 10,000 scientists, engineers and developers now reading our…

Seqera is often approached for guidance on how to streamline the execution of workflows in production environments. For example…

We’re excited to release the Nextflow Tower CLI, available for all platforms on GitHub today. Users have been asking for the ability to…

WOWZAS! It has been a crazy few years… all of a sudden, I find myself as Head of Scientific Development at Seqera! For the benefit of those…

A ready-to-go analysis environment with gold-standard nf-core pipelines Tower Cloud is a hosted instance of Nextflow Tower available at http…

Versionable input data sources for Nextflow pipelines We’re excited to announce Nextflow Tower Datasets! By giving users the ability to…

Gritstone bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next generation cancer and infectious disease immunotherapies…

We are pleased to announce support for the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collaboration that allows Nextflow…

When it comes to running bioinformatics workflows in the cloud, infrastructure matters. Bioinformaticians have multiple choices, including…

The nf-core project fosters collaborative development and best-practices for the Nextflow community. Now counted in the thousands of users…

The RNA Society is hosting APAeval, a community effort to evaluate computational methods for the detection and quantification of poly(A…

We have spent a lot of time over the last months on an embarrassing problem; although this time it is not parallelization! Working backward…

In February 2021, Seqera ran the first-ever State of the Nextflow Community Survey. We received a great response rate with 236 participants…

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Felix Morency, the CTO of Imeka, a customer that is using Nextflow for managing imaging data…

As more users adopt Nextflow and Nextflow Tower, we are eager to learn more about the different needs of the community. The expectations and…

Today we are pleased to announce Tower support for Grid Engine workload manager as a target execution platform for Nextflow data pipelines…

For the Nextflow Tower project, it has been a pivotal first year, and the team has done a fantastic job to reach so many milestones along…

Tower API & Docs release - Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. Tower was released just over one year ago to…

The First Anniversary Release This month we celebrate the birthday of the Tower project, introduced one year ago! 🎉🎉 A lot has changed in…

AWS Batch is a fantastic service which provides virtually unlimited computing capacity and manages all the complexity of provisioning VMs…

Today marks quite an update in the Nextflow Tower project. The months in lockdown have been intense for our team, and it is a credit to…

The past month Seqera introduced Nextflow Tower, a management and monitoring system for Nextflow data analysis pipeline applications. Tower…

Cloud Native Data Pipelines Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona. The first…

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Seqera as a new spin-off from the (CRG) founded by Paolo Di Tommaso…