Examples
Worked examples
- Is an instance
An nf-core/rnaseq pipeline run on AWS Batch using Singularity images.
- Is an instance
A custom Nextflow workflow distributed alongside a paper with a pinned configuration profile.
Counter-examples
Looks similar, but isn't
- Not an instance
A Snakemake pipeline (different ecosystem).
- Not an instance
A non-workflow shell script.
Editorial commentary
Nextflow's processes communicate via typed channels, enabling implicit parallelism and easy scaling from laptop to HPC to cloud. The nf-core community curates dozens of standardised, peer-reviewed pipelines. As with Snakemake, this entry covers the conceptual pattern rather than version-specific behaviour.
References
- Di Tommaso et al., 'Nextflow enables reproducible computational workflows' (Nature Biotechnology, 2017); nf-core community publications.
Also known as
Nextflow
Machine-readable encodings
Use in your systems
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