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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's been a little while, but the #Nextflow #Podcast is back! Check out episode 58 to hear all about writing and publishing #plugins. We covered plugins way back in ep 38, but so much has changed since then that we felt like the topic deserved a re-run!

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last chance to register for the #NextflowSummit in-person training and @nf-co.re #hackathon! We've had a bunch of new projects come in for the hackathon the past few days, I'm getting really excited for it. Can't wait to see some faces old and new, and see what we can build together 🚀

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Nice! Just got accepted to give a talk at PyCon Sweden #PyConSE2026 🐍 🇸🇪 about *Starlight-Pydocs* I gave a talk there in 2024 and it was great fun. Looking forward to it already 😊 ewels.github.io/starlight-py...

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Starlight Pydocs

Python API reference documentation for Astro and Starlight, extracted with Griffe.

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 15/09/2026

Just 1 month to go until Nextflow Training and @nf-co.re Hackathon in Barcelona!🧦 Here's a sneak peak at exclusive swag you'll receive: stickers, t'shirts, socks and more! Register by Sep 24 to join the fun: hubs.la/Q04xwzJB0 #NextflowSummit

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Last few days to register for the @nf-co.re hackathon in Barcelona (part of the #NextflowSummit). Don't leave it too late - just think of the FOMO you'll feel if you miss registration! 😆 📆 Deadline is September 24th! Come join us for a few days of building and learning together!

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Seqera @seqera.io · 03/09/2026

Upcoming in-person @nextflow.io trainings by Seqera! 🌏 🔸 Sep 10, UK: hubs.la/Q04wyy4b0 🔸 Oct 15-16, Spain: hubs.la/Q04wyy3T0 🔸 Oct 20, Canada: hubs.la/Q04wyyq_0

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Has anyone spotted the new easter egg in the Nextflow Summit website yet? summit.nextflow.io 🪺 We've had fun with the design and theme for 2026. The pixelated branding is inspired by Game of Life (and is interactive - try clicking around!) 🧵 (1/2)

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Home | Nextflow Summit 2026

Join us at Nextflow Summit 2026 for the latest developments and innovations from the Nextflow world.

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nf-core @nf-co.re · 28/08/2026

Curious about the nf-core Hackathon in Barcelona this October?👩‍💻 Check out hackathon projects and group leaders so far🧵

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 21/08/2026

I spent most of my time at the 2024 #Nextflow @nf-co.re hackathon working on genomeqc. Happy to see our preprint finally published: nf-core/genomeqc: a best-practice pipeline for comparing genome and assembly quality: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧬💻🧪 github.com/nf-core/geno...

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Seqera @seqera.io · 29/07/2026

We're delighted to have contributed case studies to OpenAI's report on scientific computing in the age of agentic AI. 📃 hubs.la/Q04r75Zm0 Alongside Felix Krueger (Altos), we contributed agent-assisted rewrites of RNA-seq QC tools (RustQC, FastQC-Rust & more), built for @nextflow.io and @nf-co.re.

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Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It was fun being invited to contribute a case study to this #OpenAI preprint + blog 😊 I think it ended up a really nice overview, an interesting cross-section of how people are approaching similar problems with #ai #agent -assisted #bioinformatics software projects...💡 openai.com/index/scient...

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Scientific computing in the age of agentic AI

A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond.

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 27/07/2026

Welcome to the Program!🎉 We're absolutely delighted to be welcoming 43 new Nextflow Ambassadors to the Program who will help foster collaboration, organize events, and support fellow community members across the global Nextflow ecosystem.🌎

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 23/07/2026

📢 Deadline tomorrow: Speak at the #NextflowSummit by @seqera.io this Oct.🎤 We want to hear how you're using Nextflow to solve real bioinformatics challenges at scale, from pipeline development to agentic approaches and more. Submit your abstract now: hubs.la/Q04qsyFn0

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Only ONE WEEK left to submit your talk abstract for the online #NextflowSummit in October! 📅🔥 Get those abstracts in quick! 😅

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

New @nf-co.re monthly #newsletter is live! Read all about it in a new blog post out today: nf-co.re/blog/2026/ne... You can get monthly emails, or subscribe on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/newsletters/... Little promo clip made using hyperframes.heygen.com just for fun 😅

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nf-core @nf-co.re · 23/06/2026

Happening right now: join @ewels.bsky.social in a @nf-co.re #bytesize talk to hear all about our newest feature: monthly Newsletters! nf-co.re/events/2026/...

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Bytesize: nf-core newsletter

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'm very happy to say that we now have new tools for viewing @nextflow.io log files for both the #CLI and the #VSCode extension! Try it out with the latest Nextflow edge release (26.05.0-edge) after a run: $ nextflow logfile Or open any log file in VSCode with the Nextflow extension installed ✨🌈

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

New in @seqera.io #Containers: you can now edit the #conda environment.yaml directly to control how your container is built. 📦 📄 ✍️ The UI also shows how to do the same with the Wave CLI in your terminal, which also saves to Seqera Containers. Short demo: youtu.be/DkRgor8Mx4A seqera.io/containers

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Seqera Containers: customize your environment.yaml

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Registration is now open for the October #NextflowSummit! Both online virtual attendance (free) and in-person hackathon / training, in Barcelona 🇪🇸 Come and join to see what the fuss is about, get new skills, meet old friends and hear the latest and greatest in scientific developments! ✨ 🎉

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Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas, Ph.D. @mribeirodantas.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's amazing to see how much Nextflow has grown! When I joined Seqera in 2022, there were multiple places around the world who barely had anyone who had ever run Nextflow. It's a totally different scenario in 2026, and it's so nice to have been on board during this trip! 🤩

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Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Jeremy Wang developed rammap, a minimap2 rewrite in Rust. It achieves comparable or better performance than minimap2 and produces identical output to minimap2. During rewrite, Jeremy found two long-existing bugs in minimap2 which are fixed in v2.31. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Seqera @seqera.io · 27/05/2026

Join @ewels.bsky.social (Senior Product Manager, OSS) and Ben Sherman (Senior Software Engineer) on June 17 to discover everything that's new in the latest @nextflow.io release. ⬇️

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Seqera @seqera.io · 20/05/2026

@multiqc.info has ~200 config options for customizing reports: renaming samples, reordering modules, dropping stats columns, tweaking plot defaults, and more.📊 But most users don't know what's possible, so we built a MultiQC Config Wizard. hubs.la/Q04hgKlS0

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Introducing the MultiQC Config Wizard | Seqera

A new static HTML wizard for browsing, building, and validating MultiQC config files. Learn how Pydantic powers the wizard, as well as docs and VSCode integration.

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I finally gave in and wrote myself an @elgato.com #StreamDeck to do "fake typing" for demo videos. You can "type" preset texts (long-press for alt., also cycle or print random) and make it look more Human with delays, randomness and even typos 😅 Code is on GitHub 👉🏻 github.com/ewels/type-d...

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Had a lot of fun hacking with this over the past few days (it went through multiple variations!) Thanks to @vladsavelyev.bsky.social for doing the initial refactoring work under the hood in #MultiQC and wiring up Pydantic, and starting the first version of config wizard 🎉

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Seqera @seqera.io · 19/05/2026

📷 The Nextflow Summit Boston 2026 photo gallery is live! Browse the highlights: hubs.la/Q04h5Rf30

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Seqera @seqera.io · 18/05/2026

Producing the rewrite is only the start of the story though. @ewels.bsky.social joined @robert.bio on the OMGenomics podcast to talk about rewriting bioinformatics tools in Rust and what AI-assisted development looks like in practice. 🎧 Give it a listen: hubs.ly/Q04gY5Kq0

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I interviewed 5 bioinformatics experts about AI rewrites

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It was great fun talking to @robert.bio and his edit is great (I love some of the overlays, especially the one about @robp.bsky.social being an authority 😂)

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My talk from the #NextflowSummit is on YouTube! youtu.be/LbA_d4oOpDQ I talked about my recent odyssey with AI-written software, including #RustQC, rewrites.bio, Trim Galore and a FastQC rust rewrite 👀 This was honestly one of my favourite talks to date. I hope it's interesting for folks 😊

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Phil Ewels: Bioinformatics in the agentic age: Practical tips learnt from RustQC and rewrites.bio

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

All the videos from the Boston #NextflowSummit are now available on YouTube! There are some brilliant talks in there 🤩

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 01/05/2026

Nextflow 26.04 is here!🚀 This release makes writing bug-free pipeline code easier than ever, whether you're coding yourself or working with AI agents. Clearer errors, stronger types, and simpler code reuse. hubs.la/Q04d-6m60

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 30/04/2026

@ewels.bsky.social from @seqera.io just dropped a mass of knowledge about RustQC, a single Rust binary replacing 15 RNA-seq QC tools with 60x faster speed, built entirely with AI and zero prior experience. Plus, rewrites.bio for responsible rewrite principles🤯 #NextflowSummit

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yessss new socks for the collection! 🧦

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Did you miss the registration deadline for the Boston #NextflowSummit? Fear not - all talks will be live streamed online! 🎉 The hybrid event will use the same platform as the October 2025 event, you can watch live and ask questions for the speaker. Hit the link below to register!

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Heng Li's blog posts are always thoughtful and well written, this is no exception. Great to see folks coming to similar conclusions around #Rust #rewrites in bioinformatics. Also appreciate the RustQC / rewrites.bio cite 🙏🏻

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nf-core @nf-co.re · 10/04/2026

The nf-core Hackathon in Boston is happening in just over 2 weeks! 💻Join us April 28–29 for two days of collaborative hacking.🎟️ Register now: hubs.la/Q04brb4c0 Whether you want to add new features to existing pipelines, work on tooling, or tackle community initiatives — there's something for you.

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Samuel Lampa @smllmp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Very very important initiative, check it out #bioinformaticians!

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Seqera @seqera.io · 09/04/2026

AI coding assistants just passed a threshold: domain experts can now rewrite established scientific software in days. This wave of rewrites is coming for #bioinformatics. The question isn't whether to embrace this capability, but how to do it responsibly.🧵 hubs.la/Q04b85ww0

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Seqera @seqera.io · 02/04/2026

Introducing RustQC: 60x faster RNA-Seq quality control! We used AI to reimplement 15 RNA-Seq QC tools (dupRadar, Qualimap, RSeQC, Preseq, samtools, featureCounts) into a single tool, written in @rust-lang.org: ✅ 15 h analyses → 15 min ✅ Identical outputs ✅ Drastically reduced I/O

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Nils Homer @nilshomer.com · 02/04/2026

Totally agree something has shifted. We used Claude Code extensively for fgumi and it genuinely changed our velocity on the port from Scala to Rust. The key was having deep domain expertise to guide it and catch the subtle stuff. AI as a force multiplier for experienced devs is very real now.

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Super excited to be launching two things today: #RustQC 🦀🧬 and rewrites.bio 🚀 I used AI to rewrite 15 RNA-seq QC tools into a single Rust binary (I've never written any Rust). It ended up being over 60x faster. Here's the story 🧵 seqeralabs.github.io/RustQC/

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Welcome to RustQC

Fast quality control tools for sequencing data, written in Rust.

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The #NextflowSummit agenda is live! Check out the speaker line up 🤩

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Fulcrum Genomics @fulcrumgenomics.com · 24/03/2026

Ever receive a BAM aligned to “GRCh38” and realize that could mean several different references? We just released ref-solver, a tool that identifies the reference genome behind BAM/CRAM/FASTA files by comparing sequence dictionaries to known builds. 🔗 whatsmygenome.fulcrumgenomics.com Read more 👇

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Phil Ewels @ewels.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Last chance to get an abstract in for the next #NextflowSummit in 🇺🇸 Boston! Call for abstracts closes tomorrow, there will be no extensions after this one, so get your abstract in now 😊 🗳️

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Nextflow @nextflow.io · 17/03/2026

🎙️Discover what’s changing in #Nextflow to make pipeline composition easier in our part 2 podcast episode on pipeline chaining, meta pipelines, and automation. 👀 Watch now: hubs.la/Q0473QrH0

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Pipeline chaining, meta pipelines and automation (Part 2) | The Nextflow Podcast by Seqera

Seqera | The Home for Open Science | From the developers of Nextflow, Wave, and MultiQC

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Seqera @seqera.io · 06/03/2026

Less than 1 week to go until the @nf-co.re Hackathon!🌎Join hundreds of participants for 3 days of development and collaboration with the global @nextflow.io community. We're delighted to be sponsoring this community event and can't wait to see what you will build together!👏 hubs.la/Q045R9_h0

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Adam Ameur @adameur.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Say hello to Nallo - our Nextflow pipeline for long-read WGS analysis!👋 It handles both ONT and PacBio data and we’re using this for rare disease and population projects in Sweden. A big team effort by Felix Lenner, Anders Jemt et al.🧬💻 academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

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Nallo: a Nextflow pipeline for comprehensive human long-read genome analysis

AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing (LRS) is increasingly used for human medical research and clinical diagnostics, due to its capacity to generate co

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Seqera @seqera.io · 20/02/2026

Missed The Bioinformatics CRO webinar?💻 @ewels.bsky.social shared how the reproducibility crisis in bioinformatics sparked the creation of @nextflow.io and @nf-co.re, and why it matters for your scientific workflows. Watch now ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TtI...

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Phil Ewels – Reproducible Bioinformatics at Scale: nf-core + Nextflow

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