This record includes training materials associated with the Australian BioCommons workshop ‘Nextflow for the life sciences’. This workshop took place over two sessions on 22 - 23 July 2025.

Event description

The rise of big data has made it essential to be able to analyse and perform experiments on large datasets in a portable and reproducible manner. Nextflow is a popular bioinformatics workflow orchestrator that makes it easy to run data-intensive computational pipelines. It enables scalable and reproducible scientific workflows using software containers on any infrastructure. It allows the adaptation of workflows written in most languages and provides the ability to customise and optimise workflows for different computational environments, types and sizes of data.

Learn to build reproducible and scalable scientific workflows with Nextflow in this two-part workshop. Part one covers the fundamental principles of Nextflow pipeline development using the “Hello Nextflow” materials. Part two offers practical, hands-on experience creating a multi-sample Nextflow workflow for RNAseq data preparation

Lead trainers: 

Fred Jaya, Senior Bioinformatician (Australian BioCommons), Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney.

Dr Michael Geaghan, Senior Bioinformatician (Australian BioCommons), Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney.

Facilitators: 

• Brisbane: Magdalena Antczak (Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation (QCIF)) and Marie-Emilie Gauthier (Queensland University of Technology (QUT))
• Perth: Sarah Beecroft and Pratihba Raghunandan (Pawsey Supercomputing Centre)
• Canberra: Kisaru Liyanage(National Computational Infrastructure (NCI))
• Adelaide: John Salamon and Michael Roach (South Australian Genomics Centre (SAGC))
• Melbourne: Emma Gail and Grace Hall (Melbourne Bioinformatics), Richard Lupat (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre)
• Sydney: Thanh Nguyen, Eric Urng, Matthew Hobbs (Garvan Institute of Medical Research)

Infrastructure provision: Wenjing Xue (National Computational Infrastructure (NCI))

Host: Dr Giorgia Mori, Australian BioCommons

Training materials

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The materials were developed by the Sydney Informatics Hub, University of Sydney. The workshop was enabled through the Australian BioCommons - BioCLI Platforms Project (NCRIS via Bioplatforms Australia).

Training materials webpage:

https://sydney-informatics-hub.github.io/hello-nextflow-2025/