The Open Science Blog

This is a guest post authored by Maxime Garcia from the Science for Life Laboratory in Sweden. Max describes how they deploy complex cancer data analysis pipelines using Nextflow and Singularity. We are very happy to share their experience across the Nextflow community.

Maxime Garcia

The latest Nextflow release (0.26.0) includes built-in support for AWS Batch, a managed computing service that allows the execution of containerised workloads over the Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS).

Paolo Di Tommaso

Learn how to deploy an elastic computing cluster in the AWS cloud with Nextflow.

Paolo Di Tommaso

Nextflow is a framework that simplifies the writing of parallel and distributed computational pipelines in a portable and reproducible manner across different computing platforms, from a laptop to a cluster of computers.

Paolo Di Tommaso

Recently a new feature has been added to Nextflow that allows failing jobs to be rescheduled, automatically increasing the amount of computational resources requested.

Paolo Di Tommaso

As a new bioinformatics student with little formal computer science training, there are few things that scare me more than PhD committee meetings and having to run my code in a completely different operating environment.

Evan Floden

In a recent publication we assessed the impact of Docker containers technology on the performance of bioinformatic tools and data analysis workflows.

Paolo Di Tommaso