Nextflow and Wave

Wave's container provisioning service seamlessly integrates with Nextflow pipelines to streamline container management and deployment. When a process runs, Wave automatically handles container building, provisioning, and optimization, eliminating the complexity of manual container management in your workflow execution.

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Nextflow integration with Wave requires Nextflow 22.10.0 or later.

Getting started

To enable Wave in a Nextflow pipeline, add the following to your Nextflow configuration file:

nextflow.config

wave.enabled = true
tower.accessToken = '<tower-access-token>'

Replace <tower-access-token> with your Seqera access token. The token is optional. With a token you gain access to private repositories and higher API request limits than anonymous users.

For additional examples and configuration options see Use cases and Configuration reference.

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For a step-by-step walkthrough, see the Nextflow and Wave tutorial.