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Subscribe to our newsletterAutomating 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…

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 Labs 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…

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…

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 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 – 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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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 Labs! For the benefit of…

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…

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 Labs ran the first-ever State of the Nextflow Community Survey. We received a great response rate with 236…

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…

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 Labs as a new spin-off from the (CRG) founded by Paolo Di…

