Episode 19: Nextflow runtime updates - Talking tasks

from nf-cast - the bioinformatics podcast · host Seqera

In today's episode of the Channels Podcast, we talk to Seqera software engineer Ben Sherman about what's going on "under the hood" with Nextflow. We touch on task provenance, cloud cache databases and task / sub-workflow grouping. Gotta cache 'em all! 0:00 - Introduction 2:21 - Task provenance 14:32 - Difference to the nf-prov plugin 17:13 - Quilt packages 22:30 - Cloud cache database 32:16 - Task grouping (horizontal) 45:18 - Workflow grouping (vertical) 1:00:22 - Upcoming events 1:03:31 - Close

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