About Nextflow


Nextflow is a free and open-source software distributed under the Apache 2.0 licence, developed by Seqera Labs. The software is used by scientists and engineers to write, deploy and share data-intensive, highly scalable, workflows on any infrastructure.

Check it out the project repository on GitHub for details.

Core team


Paolo Di Tommaso, Nextflow Lead

Paolo Di Tommaso,
Seqera Labs CTO

Evan Floden

Evan Floden,
Seqera Labs CEO

Project Funding


The project is supported and maintained by Seqera Labs.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports the project through two Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) grants. Together with nf-core, Nextflow is part of of the second and fourth cycles.

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Seqera Labs

Seqera Labs

Key contributors


Cedric Notredame

Cedric Notredame,
Centre for Genomic Regulation

Phil Ewels

Phil Ewels,
Seqera Labs

Emilio Palumbo

Emilio Palumbo,
Centre for Genomic Regulation

Francesco Strozzi

Francesco Strozzi,
Enterome Bioscience

Harshil Patel

Harshil Patel,
Seqera Labs

Kevin Sayers

Kevin Sayers,
Amazon Web Services

nf-core

nf-core
Core team

Seqera Labs

Seqera Labs
team

Project contributors



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