If you’ve ever had to stand up a rig on premises or in the cloud to run genomics pipelines, or do downstream analysis, you’ll know it’s not a small pile of packages you need to build, and connecting them all can be …
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Steve Litster leads the HCLS compute specialists team, and he’s well known to most of that community because he’s worked in research, and at a pharmaceutical company, and in the tech industry. But just speaking to him makes you …
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The AWS Genomics CLI (or AGC) seriously removes all the grunt work involved in setting up bioinformatics pipelines to run in the cloud. We know that Snakemake, Cromwell, NextFlow and miniWDL all work happily in the cloud on AWS Batch, but …
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Mike Lin is the creator and maintainer of miniWDL and has been working with our Genomics and ML teams to integrate it with Sagemaker Studio and AWS Batch. The result is a working environment that’s completely familiar and easy to use …
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Swaine Chen had a problem: his new group at the Genomics Institute of Singapore needed common tooling involving zillions of utilities, scripts carrying algorithms and techniques, so they could migrate their workloads from their on-premises …
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Nextflow Tower became necessary when lots of Nextflow users started to leave the confines of their existing environments in search of more compute, more storage, more capabilities. Nextflow made their workflows portable, but there was still …
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NF Core is an open source repository of Nextflow workflows that can be downloaded, shared, forked, updated, tested and validated. If you’ve ever heard that quote from Isaac Newtown about seeing further by standing on the shoulders of …
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In recent years, we’ve all been amazed at how large areas of scientific computing have moved to abstract their workflows away from the details of systems and cluster architecture. Bioinformatics has really lead the way in this regard - …
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