QUT's Office of eResearch enabling better bioinformatics research performance using NextFlow.
The eResearch team has been developing and optimizing NextFlow (https://www.nextflow.io/) bioinformatic pipelines for QUT’s high performance computing cluster (HPC).
NextFlow is a bioinformatics workflow manager that enables the development of portable and reproducible workflows. There are a multitude of available NextFlow pipelines that have been developed for a large variety of research datasets. We have successfully implemented the ‘ampliseq’ (16S rRNA amplicon analysis) pipeline on the HPC, which is producing excellent publication-ready results.
We are progressing with the implementation of gene expression, epigenetics, variant calling and other NextFlow pipelines. Contact us at eresearch@qut.edu.au for more information.