Bioinformatics at @greeninglab, and alumnus of @MelBioInf and @MelbGenomics. Tweets about #Rstats, #Python, #Rustlang, #javascript and #Bioinformatics. He/him.
Sep 28, 2021 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
After yet another tour through a whole stack of Python workflow systems, I still can't find one that beats @nextflowio for #bioinformatics. Here's a short thread on the fatal flaws of each:
@ApacheAirflow: popular and elegant, but it still has very poor (if any) support for HPC execution, and it has no concept of platform-native file storage (S3 on AWS, local filesystem on HPC etc).