Repository files navigation

"Dataflow variables are spectacularly expressive in concurrent programming"
Henri E. Bal , Jennifer G. Steiner , Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Nextflow is a workflow system for creating scalable, portable, and reproducible workflows. It is based on the dataflow programming model, which greatly simplifies the writing of parallel and distributed pipelines, allowing you to focus on the flow of data and computation. Nextflow can deploy workflows on a variety of execution platforms, including your local machine, HPC schedulers, AWS Batch, Azure Batch, Google Cloud Batch, and Kubernetes. Additionally, it supports many ways to manage your software dependencies, including Conda, Spack, Docker, Podman, Singularity, and more.

Install Nextflow with a single command:

curl -fsSL https://get.nextflow.io| bash

It creates thenextflow executable file in the current directory. You can then move it to a directory in your$PATH to run it from anywhere.

Nextflow can also be installed from Bioconda:

conda install -c bioconda nextflow

The Nextflow documentation is available for the lateststable andedge releases.

You can post questions and get help in theNextflow community forum or theNextflow Slack. Bugs and feature requests should be reported asGitHub issues.

The Nextflow community is highly active with regular community meetings, events, a podcast and more. You can view much of this material on theNextflow andnf-core YouTube channels.

Thenf-core project is a community effort aggregating high quality Nextflow workflows which can be used by everyone.

Contributions are more than welcome. See theCONTRIBUTING file for details.

Nextflow is released under the Apache 2.0 license. Nextflow is aregistered trademark.

If you use Nextflow in your work, please cite:

P. Di Tommaso, et al. Nextflow enables reproducible computational workflows. Nature Biotechnology 35, 316–319 (2017) doi:10.1038/nbt.3820

Nextflow is built on two *great* open-source software projects,GroovyandGPars.

YourKit is kindly supporting Nextflow with its fully-featured Java Profiler.