The chapter delves into the evolution of Nextflow focusing on scalability, collaboration, and integrating technologies like Fusion and Wave. It emphasizes the company's commitment to open science, investing in open source projects, and monetizing a small user base. The challenges in bioinformatics, resource management, and hiring talent are discussed, along with the future of workflow systems, orchestration, and bioinformatics tools in the context of advancements like GPU integration and increased automation.
NextFlow is a tool for managing scientific computation workflows. It’s increasingly popular for bioinformatics, computational biology, and other life science applications.
Evan Floden is the Co-Founder and CEO of Seqera Labs which develops NextFlow. He joins the show today to talk about his background as a scientist and engineer, the modular design of NextFlow pipelines, the unique challenges of genomic sequence data formats, and more.
Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .
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