Nextflow

Nextflow
Original author(s)Paolo Di Tommaso
Developer(s)Seqera Labs, Centre for Genomic Regulation
Initial releaseApril 9, 2013; 11 years ago (2013-04-09)
Stable release
v23.10.1 / January 12, 2024; 10 months ago (2024-01-12)
Preview release
v24.02.0-edge / March 9, 2024; 8 months ago (2024-03-09)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow
Written inGroovy, Java
Operating systemLinux, macOS, WSL
TypeScientific workflow system, Dataflow programming, Big data
LicenseApache License 2.0
Websitenextflow.io

Nextflow is a scientific workflow system predominantly used for bioinformatic data analysis. It establishes standards for programmatically creating a series of dependent computational steps and facilitates their execution on various local and cloud resources.[1][2]

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  2. ^ Gao, Mingxuan; Ling, Mingyi; Tang, Xinwei; Wang, Shun; Xiao, Xu; Qiao, Ying; Yang, Wenxian; Yu, Rongshan (2021). "Comparison of high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing data processing pipelines". Briefings in Bioinformatics. 22 (3). doi:10.1093/bib/bbaa116. PMID 34020539.