Plabyook nextflow

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Summary

Installs the Nextflow workflow engine.

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.

Requires

• Debian-based system
• RHEL-based system

Description

The role will install the latest version of Nextflow by default. Nextflow is downloaded from Github, and placed in /usr/local/bin/nextflow. Nextflow will therefore be available on every user’s path.

Variables

• nextflow_version: String. If set, a specific version of Nextflow will be downloaded from Github (instead of the latest version). Default: "".
• nextflow_java_version: String. The version of Java that will be installed. Default: "17".

See also

• role nextflow

History

2025 Written by Dawa Ometto (Utrecht University)

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