Exploring Nextflow with a small bioinformatics workflow

By Fábio Madeira in Nextflow on

I recently wrote about workflow management systems in bioinformatics, focusing on Nextflow and Snakemake. In this post, the aim is to compose a small Bioinformatics workflow to start exploring the Nextflow syntax and its features. The Nextflow documentation is extensive and provides many examples that are a helpful start. Nevertheless,…

Workflow management systems in Bioinformatics

By Fábio Madeira in Workflows on

Several alternative scientific workflow systems typically referred to as workflow management platforms are used to run data pipelines (e.g. SNP calling and performing ETL). Among the most popular workflow managers are Nextflow and Snakemake. These were conceived in Bioinformatics labs but essentially try to address similar reproducibility and scalability issues…