Overview

Nextflow enables scalable and reproducible scientific workflows using software containers. It allows the adaptation of pipelines written in the most common scripting languages.

Reactive Workflow Model

Nextflow uses a data-flow programming model. Processes are connected via channels; as soon as a process receives an input, it executes. This allows for massive automatic parallelism.

Portability

Separate the logic of the workflow from the configuration of the execution platform. A pipeline written on a laptop can run on a university cluster or AWS Batch with a simple configuration file change.