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Containers are essential components in reproducible scientific workflows. They enable applications to be easily packaged and distributed…
Element Biosciences and Seqera – Flexible, powerful, end-to-end analysis at scale
This is a joint blog post from Harshil Patel of Seqera, Rosi Bajari, and Bryan Lajoie of Element Biosciences describing a new integration…
Fusion file system and Mountpoint for Amazon S3 – understanding the differences
Introduction While solutions such as s3fs-fuse and Goofys that present a POSIX-like file system interface over object storage aren’t new…
MultiQC: A fresh coat of paint
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…
Running Nextflow pipelines with MemVerge’s MMCloud
This is a guest blog post from Sateesh Peri from MemVerge highlighting the flexibility and level of third-party integrations possible using…
Seqera at ASHG 2023
Last week, the American Society of Human and Genetics held its annual meeting in Washington, DC, running Nov 1-5, 2023. The meeting drew…
Seqera and AWS Fargate
At the recent Nextflow Summit, during his talk on the modern biotech stack, Seqera co-founder and CEO Evan Floden described important new…
Introducing Data Explorer
We are delighted to announce that Seqera’s Data Explorer is now available in Public Preview in Seqera Platform! The Data Explorer lets you…
Introducing the Seqera Platform - one platform for the data analysis lifecycle
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…
Geraldine Van der Auwera joins Seqera
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…
Automating pipeline execution with Nextflow and Tower
Nextflow enables completely hands off pipeline execution, with each process and the execution order written as code and deployed as a single…
Kickstart your Tower Cloud experience
Run your first analysis pipeline in under 30 minutes Nextflow continues to grow in popularity. Today, the open-source workflow manager is…
MultiQC turns eight years old!
MultiQC is an open-source bioinformatics tool used to generate quality-control HTML reports from analysis logs. It understands outputs from…
Preparing for a multi-cloud future
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 Tower for Machine Learning
“Nextflow” and “machine learning” are not topics that are typically seen together. Nextflow is usually associated with bioinformatics, while…
ZS and Seqera announce a new partnership agreement
The partnership is aimed at boosting research productivity in biotech and healthcare When it comes to maximizing research productivity, life…
The State of the Workflow 2023: Community Survey Results
In March, we ran our annual State of the Workflow Community survey to get a sense of activities and preferences in the Nextflow user…
Running AI workloads in the cloud with Nextflow Tower — a step-by-step guide
Introduction The last 12 months have been nothing short of a revolution within AI. In particular, the widespread adoption of ChatGPT from…
Keep your genomic analysis on track with MultiQC
The Seqera blog usually focuses on topics related to Nextflow and Nextflow Tower. While Nextflow gets most of the attention as our flagship…
The State of the Workflow 2023: The Nextflow and nf-core community survey
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…
How Nextflow is helping win the global battle against future outbreaks and pandemics
Using genetic sequencing to identify pathogens and respond to outbreaks is hardly new. Public Health Authorities (PHAs) routinely use…
Breakthrough performance and cost-efficiency with the new Fusion file system
Introduction Running data-intensive pipelines at scale can be complex, particularly when handling the distributed file storage and data…
Nextflow and K8s Rebooted: Running Nextflow on Amazon EKS
In the world of container orchestration, Kubernetes has clear momentum. While Kubernetes has long been a hot topic with developers, it is…
Container provisioning, cloud resource optimization, Google Cloud Batch support, and more in Tower Enterprise 22.3
Nextflow Tower Enterprise version 22.3 brings a host of new features, services, and improved cloud provider support. Google Cloud Batch…
Building Containers for Scientific Workflows
About containers and Nextflow If you have worked in bioinformatics for any time, you have almost certainly come across containers. As a…
Accelerating Analytics with Easy Genomics - Wisconsin State Laboratory
By: Venkata Kampana, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS and Dr. Dawn Heisey-Grove, Public Health Analytics Leader, AWS. Genomics is the study…
Best Practices for Deploying Pipelines with the Seqera Platform (formerly Nextflow Tower)
Nextflow is a bioinformatics workflow manager that provides a robust command line interface for the management and execution of pipelines…
Optimizing resource usage with Nextflow Tower
Suppose you’ve been working on a production pipeline for months. You’ve carefully crafted containers optimized for each application…
Nextflow and Azure Batch – working with Tower (2 of 2)
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…
Announcing Labels in Tower
A powerful new way to organize and track pipelines, runs, actions, and more in Nextflow Tower. We’re excited to announce new capabilities…
Nextflow and Azure Batch – Inside the Integration (1 of 2)
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…
Nextflow and AWS Batch - Using Tower (3 of 3)
In the first article in this series, we looked at AWS Batch, described some key concepts, and explained the Nextflow execution model. In the…
Nextflow and AWS Batch – Inside the Integration (2 of 3)
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…
Nextflowomics: Untangling Biology with Data Analysis Pipelines
The word omics refers to the high throughput measurement of particular biological molecules. For example, genomics is the study of all…
Announcing Nextflow Support for Google Cloud Batch
Easy access to scalable cloud resources is a game-changer for organizations engaged in life sciences research. By running portable and…
Nextflow and AWS Batch – Inside the Integration (1 of 3)
One of the reasons for Nextflow’s popularity is that it decouples pipeline logic from underlying execution environments. This, in…
Announcing Illumina DRAGEN integration with Nextflow Tower
DRAGEN is a platform provided by Illumina that offers accurate, comprehensive, and efficient secondary analysis of next-generation…
The State of the Workflow 2022: Community Survey Results
With 384 responses, we received record-breaking participation in our latest State of the Workflow community survey. We are thrilled to…
Pipeline Secrets: Secure Handling of Sensitive Information in Tower
In the modern scenario of credentials-driven access to data resources, Nextflow users frequently need to safely transmit sensitive…
State of the Workflow 2022: The Nextflow and nf-core community survey
The Nextflow community has continued to grow over the past year with over 10,000 scientists, engineers and developers now reading our…
Workflow Automation for Nextflow Pipelines
Seqera is often approached for guidance on how to streamline the execution of workflows in production environments. For example…
Announcing the Nextflow Tower CLI
We’re excited to release the Nextflow Tower CLI, available for all platforms on GitHub today. Users have been asking for the ability to…
Introducing Harshil Patel, Head of Scientific Development
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…
Introducing the Tower Cloud Community Workspace
A ready-to-go analysis environment with gold-standard nf-core pipelines Tower Cloud is a hosted instance of Nextflow Tower available at http…
Introducing Tower Datasets
Versionable input data sources for Nextflow pipelines We’re excited to announce Nextflow Tower Datasets! By giving users the ability to…
Personalized Immunotherapy – Machine Learning meets Next Generation Sequencing
Gritstone bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing next generation cancer and infectious disease immunotherapies…
Seqera Announces Support for AWS for Health Initiative
We are pleased to announce support for the AWS for Health initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS), a collaboration that allows Nextflow…
Optimizing Workflows with Nextflow
When it comes to running bioinformatics workflows in the cloud, infrastructure matters. Bioinformaticians have multiple choices, including…
nf-core June 2021 Updates - The latest news from the nf-core team
The nf-core project fosters collaborative development and best-practices for the Nextflow community. Now counted in the thousands of users…
RNA Society Hosts APAeval Challenge on Nextflow Tower
The RNA Society is hosting APAeval, a community effort to evaluate computational methods for the detection and quantification of poly(A…
The next step for multi-platform collaboration at scale
We have spent a lot of time over the last months on an embarrassing problem; although this time it is not parallelization! Working backward…
The State of Nextflow 2021
In February 2021, Seqera ran the first-ever State of the Nextflow Community Survey. We received a great response rate with 236 participants…
Break-through Science - Machine Learning and Imaging Pipelines using Nextflow
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…
State of Nextflow Survey 2021
As more users adopt Nextflow and Nextflow Tower, we are eager to learn more about the different needs of the community. The expectations and…
Grid Engine Support for Tower Workloads
Today we are pleased to announce Tower support for Grid Engine workload manager as a target execution platform for Nextflow data pipelines…
Kubernetes is everywhere!
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
Tower API & Docs release - Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable. Tower was released just over one year ago to…
Sharing is Caring
The First Anniversary Release This month we celebrate the birthday of the Tower project, introduced one year ago! 🎉🎉 A lot has changed in…
Tower Forge for AWS Batch
AWS Batch is a fantastic service which provides virtually unlimited computing capacity and manages all the complexity of provisioning VMs…
Tower Cloud Launch
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…
Introducing Nextflow Tower - Seamless monitoring of data analysis workflows from anywhere
The past month Seqera introduced Nextflow Tower, a management and monitoring system for Nextflow data analysis pipeline applications. Tower…
Cloud Native Data Pipelines
Cloud Native Data Pipelines Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 in Barcelona. The first…
Day one
We are thrilled to announce the launch of Seqera as a new spin-off from the (CRG) founded by Paolo Di Tommaso…