From researcher to enterprise: Better science through better software

When we first started building Nextflow, the mission was simple: empower individual bioinformaticians to run their analyses more efficiently. These were people buried under fragile scripts and long hours in the terminal—just trying to make their data work for them.

But something powerful happened as those individual users found value. Their teams noticed. Then their departments. Then the entire enterprise.

Today, Seqera supports global pharmaceutical companies, genomics labs, research hospitals, and government organizations as they scale their workflows from isolated pipelines to organization-wide orchestration. And that growth wasn’t accidental. It was the result of building with empathy—for the scientist, the hybrid researcher-developer, and the cross-functional team trying to accelerate discovery.

We believe better science begins with better software.

Science needs a modern software stack

Let’s be honest: too much of today’s research still runs on outdated infrastructure. Local scripts, manual file transfers, snowflake environments—this is not how innovation, especially innovation that can and does save lives, should happen in 2025.

What’s missing is the kind of tooling that engineers take for granted. CI/CD, version control, containerization, real-time monitoring. These aren’t "nice to have", they’re the backbone of scalable, collaborative work.

That’s why we’re building Seqera to be the modern stack for science. A place where infrastructure fades into the background, and researchers can focus on questions, not configuration.

Empowering every scientist, not just the engineers

One of the biggest barriers to progress in life sciences is accessibility. The truth is, not every scientist comes from a software background—and they shouldn’t have to.

We built Seqera to bridge that gap. Our platform is intuitive enough for a molecular biologist just getting started with pipelines, but powerful enough for an informatics team managing thousands of workflows across cloud and on-prem environments.

Science is a team sport. Your infrastructure should support everyone on the field.

Reclaiming creativity in R&D

Efficiency matters, but what about creativity? Scientific discovery thrives on curiosity, iteration, and exploration. But when researchers are bogged down in broken environments and debugging bash scripts, creativity takes a back seat.

We want to change that. By reducing friction in the infrastructure layer, we give time back to the scientist. Time to think. Time to collaborate. Time to try something bold.

This isn’t just about speeding up workflows. It’s about making R&D more human—and more enjoyable.

Final thoughts

From a single researcher in a lab to enterprise-wide teams tackling global health challenges, the needs are the same: reliability, scalability, and simplicity.

Better software enables better science. That’s the principle behind everything we build at Seqera.

Because when we remove the barriers between ideas and execution, science moves forward. And we all benefit.