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This week, Harshil Patel, Director of Scientific Development at Seqera, joins the Data in Biotech podcast to discuss the importance of collaborative, open-source projects in scientific research and how they support the need for reproducibility.
Harshil lifts the lid on how Nextflow has become a leading open-source workflow management tool for scientists and the benefits of using an open-source model. He talks in detail about the development of Nextflow and the wider Seqera ecosystem, the vision behind it, and the advantages and challenges of this approach to tooling.
He discusses how the nf-core community collaboratively develops and maintains over 100 pipelines using Nextflow and how the decision to constrain pipelines to one per analysis type promotes collaboration and consistency and avoids turning pipelines into the “wild west.”
We also look more practically at Nextflow adoption as Harshil delves into some of the challenges and how to overcome them.
He explores the wider Seqera ecosystem and how it helps users manage pipelines, analysis, and cloud infrastructure more efficiently, and he looks ahead to the future evolution of scientific research.
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