Bringing Seqera Platform to Australian researchers

Nextflow is emerging as a standard for defining bioinformatics workflows according to surveys undertaken by the Australian BioCommons and collaborating partners. The importance of this bioinformatics workflow manager is also demonstrated with the increased use of Nextflow within ABLeS and Bioplatforms Australia framework communities as well as the demand for Nextflow training.

Seqera Platform can support researchers wanting to use Nextflow bioinformatics pipelines across a myriad of on-premise, supercomputing and commercial cloud platforms. Through a licence agreement with Seqera Labs, Australian BioCommons is in the process of standing up a national Seqera Platform service, enabling a centralised command post for Nextflow workflows to be offered as a fully subsidised service for Australian researchers.

Working with partners including Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, NCI, SIH, QCIF and Melbourne Bioinformatics, the Australian Seqera Platform Service will deliver a key component of BioCommons’ vision for an ecosystem of data analysis and digital asset stewardship platforms. The project is delivered through the umbrella BioCommons ‘Bring Your Own Data’ Expansion Project, which attracts ARDC and Bioplatforms Australia funding.

Since the project commenced in July 2022, Seqera Platform has been deployed on Pawsey infrastructure and several collaborators are currently developing and running Nextflow workflows to test the service, including science and method communities at AGRF, AusARG, UNSW, QUT and University of Sydney.

For details on the current status of the pilot service and information on how to get involved, visit the Australian Seqera Platform GitHub pages.

You can learn more about Seqera Platform via this Australian BioCommons webinar featuring a presentation delivered by Seqera Labs:
Launch, monitor and manage data pipelines on any infrastructure with Nextflow Tower (note that at the time of the presentation, Seqera Platform was known as Nextflow Tower). 

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