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Nextflow

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.

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Developers
Seqera Labs, Centre for Genomic Regulation
License
Apache License 2.0
Operating system
Linux, macOS, WSL
Original author
Paolo Di Tommaso
Release
April 9, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-04-09)
Repository
https://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow

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Nextflow

Nodes42
Edges41
Triples104
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.047619
Components1

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Nextflow

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related to Execution of workflows · 25
Nextflow → AKS, Apache Ignite, AWS Batch, Azure BatchOther, Cloud, EKS, GKE, Google Life Sciences, HPC, HTCondor, It, Kubernetes, Linux, Local, LSF, Mac OS, Moab, Nextflow's DSL, NQSII, OAR
related to The nf-core community · 17
Nextflow → As, Centre, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Francis Crick Institute, Genomic Regulation, In July, Led, Phil Ewels, Quantitative Biology Center, Scientific, Singapore, STAR Genome Institute, Swedish National Genomics Infrastructure, The, These, Tübingen, With
related to history · 12
Nextflow → Apache, Centre, Genomic Regulation, GitHub, GPLv3, In July, In October, July, Nextflow's, Seqera Labs, Spain, The
related to Containers for portability across computing environments · 10
Nextflow → Additionally, Charliecloud, Docker, In Nextflow, Nextflow Summit, Podman, Shifter, Singularity, These, Workflows
related to By domain and research subject · 5
Nextflow → COVID-19, Nextflow-enabled, One, Over, Swift
related to Purpose · 5
Nextflow → Custom, Many, Pipelines, Scientific, They
related to Specification of workflows · 5
Nextflow → By, Each, In Nextflow, Instead, This
Developers · 1
Nextflow → Seqera Labs, Centre for Genomic Regulation
License · 1
Nextflow → Apache License 2.0
Operating system · 1
Nextflow → Linux, macOS, WSL

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workflow data workflows pipelines also scientific analysis nf-core systems environments execution process steps various containers computing genomic processing pipeline project

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
NextflowDevelopersSeqera Labs, Centre for Genomic Regulation1.00infobox
NextflowLicenseApache License 2.01.00infobox
NextflowOperating systemLinux, macOS, WSL1.00infobox
NextflowOriginal authorPaolo Di Tommaso1.00infobox
NextflowReleaseApril 9, 2013; 13 years ago (2013-04-09)1.00infobox
NextflowRepositoryhttps://github.com/nextflow-io/nextflow1.00infobox
NextflowStable release26.04.6 / 9 July 2026; 46 days ago (9 July 2026)1.00infobox
NextflowTypeScientific workflow system, Dataflow programming, Big data1.00infobox
NextflowWebsitewww.nextflow.io1.00infobox
NextflowWritten inGroovy, Java1.00infobox
Nextflowis ascientific workflow system predominantly used for bioinformatic data analysis0.90text
Slurminstance ofNextflow supports workload managers0.80text

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