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Nextflow

Dataflow pipelines that scale from laptop to cloud

What's new

Nextflow 26.04 (2026) enables the strict syntax parser by default and adds records, static typing and a native module registry.

Nextflow lets you compose pipelines as dataflow between processes, with built-in support for containers (Docker, Singularity, Wave), HPC schedulers and all major clouds.

Highlights

  • Portable: the same pipeline runs on a laptop, Slurm, Kubernetes or AWS/GCP/Azure batch.
  • Resumable execution and full provenance.
  • Backed by nf-core, a large library of community pipelines.

Example

1process FASTQC {
2 input: path reads
3 output: path "*_fastqc.zip"
4 script: "fastqc ${reads}"
5}

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