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I did a deep dive on the different workflow management (WFM) tools for #Bioinformatics Data Analysis a few years ago, and since then there have been a few extra entrants in this segment, still mostly concentrated in serving the Next-Generation Sequencing field.
A few years ago, there were two communities dominating the open-source WFM ecosystem in NextFlow and SnakeMake, and two platforms dominating the the commercial offerings in DNAnexus and Illumina BaseSpace.
Since then, a company out of the founders of Nextflow has started offering enterprise support for Nextflow workflows in the cloud: Seqera Labs. They offer the extra level of support that some organizations require to run Nextflow on their Data Analysis setups.
The main sticking point for running open-source WFM at scale is setting them up in cloud platforms like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. This is still not a ‘one-click’ setup solution, and optimizing cost can still be a challenge.
Thus efforts from the likes of Seqera Labs in making the cloud elasticity available to all sort of customers, from large pharma to small biotech start-ups, is attractive.
Snakemake has also made some documents available for users to set it up on cloud providers, but not to the same extend, at the moment.
More on #WorkflowManagers in #Bioinformatics soon...
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