The Open Science Blog

Running CAW with Singularity and Nextflow

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

Scaling with AWS Batch

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

Nextflow published in Nature Biotechnology

Paolo Di Tommaso

Enabling elastic computing with Nextflow

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

Paolo Di Tommaso

Deploy your computational pipelines in the cloud at the snap-of-a-finger

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

Docker for dunces & Nextflow for nunces

Evan Floden

Error recovery and automatic resource management with Nextflow

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

Developing a bioinformatics pipeline across multiple environments

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

The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines

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