Blogging about Nextflow, computational workflows, containers and cloud computing


Nextflow's colorful new console output

  • Phil Ewels
  • 28 March 2024

Bringing a splash of color to your pipeline monitoring.

Nextflow workshop at the 20th KOGO Winter Symposium

  • Yuk Kei Wan
  • 14 March 2024

This is the first time we have a Nextflow workshop in Korea, and the feedback was amazing!

Optimizing Nextflow for HPC and Cloud at Scale

  • Ben Sherman
  • 17 January 2024

There are several considerations when running large pipelines, including head job resources, storage, and virtual threads. In this in-depth article, Ben Sherman of Seqera explains how to optimize Nextflow for HPC and cloud at scale!

Nextflow and nf-core Mentorship, Round 3

  • Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas
  • 13 November 2023

With the third round of the mentorship program now complete, we celebrate the success of the most recent cohort of mentors and mentees.

Nextflow Summit 2023 Recap

  • Noel Ortiz
  • 25 October 2023

The 2023 Summit was our best community event ever, drawing roughly 900 attendees across multiple channels.

Introducing community.seqera.io

  • Phil Ewels
  • 18 October 2023

We are very excited to introduce the Seqera community forum - the new home of the Nextflow community!

Introducing the Nextflow Ambassador Program

  • Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas
  • 18 October 2023

We are excited to announce the launch of the Nextflow Ambassador Program, a worldwide initiative designed to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community growth.

Geraldine Van der Auwera joins Seqera

  • Geraldine Van der Auwera
  • 11 October 2023

We're excited to welcome Geraldine to Seqera as Lead Developer Advocate to help the Nextflow community in the USA grow and thrive!

Nextflow goes to university!

  • Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas
  • 24 July 2023

Seqera partnership with universities to help students to learn Nextflow

A Nextflow-Docker Murder Mystery: The mysterious case of the “OOM killer”

  • Graham Wright
  • 19 June 2023

Helpful tips for troubleshooting out-of-memory errors in containerized execution environments.

Reflecting on ten years of Nextflow awesomeness

  • Noel Ortiz
  • 6 June 2023

A Nextflow retrospective describing ten years of community innovation

Nextflow on BIG IRON: Twelve tips for improving the effectiveness of pipelines on HPC clusters

  • Gordon Sissons
  • 26 May 2023

Learn how to deploy and manage Nextflow pipelines with HPC workload managers.

Selecting the right storage architecture for your Nextflow pipelines

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 4 May 2023

Exploring the pros and cons of various file systems and cloud object stores for your Nextflow pipeline

Celebrating our largest international training event and hackathon to date

  • Phil Ewels
  • 25 April 2023

An overview of the March 2023 Nextflow/nf-core training and hackathon events

Nextflow and nf-core Mentorship, Round 2

  • Chris Hakkaart
  • 17 April 2023

With the second round of the mentorship program now complete, we celebrate the success of the most recent cohort of mentors and mentees.

The State of Kubernetes in Nextflow

  • Ben Sherman
  • 10 March 2023

It seems that Kubernetes is everywhere we look! Nextflow users increasingly see K8s as a viable compute environment for their bioinformatic pipelines. In this article, Ben Sherman, Seqera Lab’s master of all things Kubernetes, details recent improvements to the Nextflow/Kubernetes integration.

Learn Nextflow in 2023

  • Evan Floden
  • 24 February 2023

An updated compilation of the best Nextflow learning resources for 2023.

Get started with Nextflow on Google Cloud Batch

  • Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas
  • 1 February 2023

We've talked about deploying Nextflow pipelines with Google Cloud Batch in the past. Join us again for an extended and updated version

Analyzing caching behavior of pipelines

  • Abhinav Sharma
  • 10 November 2022

A guide to analysis of dump-hashes for troubleshooting caching behavior.

Nextflow Summit 2022 Recap

  • Noel Ortiz
  • 3 November 2022

Catch up on exciting developments from this year’s Nextflow Summit held in Barcelona

Rethinking containers for cloud native pipelines

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 13 October 2022

Learn about Wave, an exciting new container provisioning and augmentation service that is fully integrated with the Nextflow and Nextflow Tower ecosystems. Wave will change the way you think about provisioning and managing containers!

Turbo-charging the Nextflow command line with Fig!

  • Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas
  • 22 September 2022

Powerful autocomplete for Nextflowin your command line interface with Fig.

Nextflow and nf-core mentorship, Round 1

  • Chris Hakkaart
  • 18 September 2022

With the first round of the CZI Nextflow / nf-core mentorship now complete, we look back at the success of the program so far.

Deploy Nextflow Pipelines with Google Cloud Batch!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 13 July 2022

Deploy Nextflow pipelines at scale with new the Google Cloud Batch compute service.

Nextflow Summit 2022

  • Phil Ewels
  • 17 June 2022

Submit a talk or poster abstract for the Nextflow Summit 2022!

Evolution of the Nextflow runtime

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 24 March 2022

Software development is a constantly evolving, this post will summarise the major changes in the evolution of the framework over the next 12 to 18 months.

Nextflow’s community is moving to Slack!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 22 February 2022

Join us to receive insights, resources and connect with the community first hand.

Learning Nextflow in 2022

  • Evan Floden
  • 21 January 2022

Resources for learning Nextflow: 2022 Revision

Configure Git private repositories with Nextflow

  • Abhinav Sharma
  • 21 October 2021

A step-by-step guide to configure Nextflow with Git hosting solutions.

Setting up a Nextflow environment on Windows 10

  • Evan Floden
  • 13 October 2021

This document provides a step-by-step guide to setting up a Nextflow development environment on Windows 10.

Introducing Nextflow support for SQL databases

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 16 September 2021

Five more tips for Nextflow user on HPC

  • Kevin Sayers
  • 15 June 2021

5 Nextflow Tips for HPC Users

  • Kevin Sayers
  • 13 May 2021

6 Tips for Setting Up Your Nextflow Dev Environment

  • Evan Floden
  • 4 March 2021

Introducing Nextflow for Azure Batch

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 22 February 2021

Learning Nextflow in 2020

  • Evan Floden & Alain Coletta
  • 1 December 2020

More syntax sugar for Nextflow developers!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 3 November 2020

The Nextflow CLI - tricks and treats!

  • Abhinav Sharma
  • 22 October 2020

Nextflow DSL 2 is here!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 24 July 2020

Easy provenance reporting

  • Evan Floden
  • 29 August 2019

Troubleshooting Nextflow resume

  • Evan Floden
  • 1 July 2019

Demystifying Nextflow resume

  • Evan Floden
  • 24 June 2019

One more step towards Nextflow modules

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 22 May 2019

Nextflow 19.04.0 stable release is out!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 18 April 2019

Edge release 19.03: The Sequence Read Archive & more!

  • Evan Floden
  • 19 March 2019

Bringing Nextflow to Google Cloud Platform with WuXi NextCODE

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 18 December 2018

Goodbye zero, Hello Apache!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 24 October 2018

Nextflow meets Dockstore

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 18 September 2018

Clarification about the Nextflow license

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 20 July 2018

Conda support has landed!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 5 June 2018

Nextflow turns five! Happy birthday!

  • Evan Floden
  • 3 April 2018

Running CAW with Singularity and Nextflow

  • Maxime Garcia
  • 16 November 2017

Scaling with AWS Batch

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 8 November 2017

Nexflow Hackathon 2017

  • Evan Floden
  • 30 September 2017

Nextflow and the Common Workflow Language

  • Kevin Sayers
  • 20 July 2017

Nextflow workshop is coming!

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 26 April 2017

Nextflow published in Nature Biotechnology

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 12 April 2017

More fun with containers in HPC

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 20 December 2016

Enabling elastic computing with Nextflow

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 19 October 2016

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

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 1 September 2016

Docker for dunces & Nextflow for nunces

  • Evan Floden
  • 10 June 2016

Workflows & publishing: best practice for reproducibility

  • Evan Floden
  • 13 April 2016

Error recovery and automatic resource management with Nextflow

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 11 February 2016

Developing a bioinformatics pipeline across multiple environments

  • Evan Floden
  • 4 February 2016

MPI-like distributed execution with Nextflow

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 13 November 2015

The impact of Docker containers on the performance of genomic pipelines

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 15 June 2015

Innovation In Science - The story behind Nextflow

  • Maria Chatzou
  • 9 June 2015

Introducing Nextflow REPL Console

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 14 April 2015

Using Docker for scientific data analysis in an HPC cluster

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 6 November 2014

Reproducibility in Science - Nextflow meets Docker

  • Maria Chatzou
  • 9 September 2014

Share Nextflow pipelines with GitHub

  • Paolo Di Tommaso
  • 7 August 2014