Accelerating Genomic Pipelines with Nextflow on Microsoft Azure at the Nextflow Summit Boston 2025

Nextflow is one of the most widely adopted open-source workflow orchestrators in the scientific research domain. In genomics, a pipeline refers to a series of computational steps designed to analyze and interpret large-scale genomic data. These pipelines consist of multiple stages, each leveraging specialized bioinformatics tools and software to transform…

09/05/2025Azure High Performance Computing (HPC) Blog

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