Nextflow

Description

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.

This workspace type comes with Nextflow preinstalled. It is meant to use Nextflow from the commandline. The workspace further includes:

• Miniconda for managing dependencies (Nextflow supports conda).
• Tools for data transfer from and to Yoda or iRODS servers.

Creation

Create a storage volume

If desired, first create a storage volume before creating the workspace.

See the Getting started page for more info about how and why to create a storage volume.

Create a workspace

In the Research Cloud portal click the ‘Create a new workspace’ button and follow the steps in the wizzard.

See the workspace creation manual page for more guidance.

Access

This workspace can be accessed via the the commandline, using ssh.

Usage

After logging in the nextflow command will be immediately available.

Data transfer options

See our data transfer manuals.

The recommended iBridges client for Yoda and iRODS is preinstalled.