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Tutorial: Creating and Running a Nextflow Pipeline on One Codex Workflows
Tutorial: Creating and Running a Nextflow Pipeline on One Codex Workflows
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Written by Austin Davis-Richardson
Updated over 3 months ago

This is a step-by-step guide for running a Nextflow pipeline on One Codex workflows. By following this guide, you will be able to create a new Nextflow pipeline using nf-core-tools then run it on One Codex. If you already have an existing Nextflow pipeline created using nf-core-tools; skip to Step 3.

Prerequisites

You will need the following tools in order to follow this tutorial:

  1. Familiarity with Github and using the git command-line tool

  2. A One Codex account with at least one Sample. If you need some data; you can follow these instructions to import some from SRA.

Step 1 - Initializing a new Nextflow pipeline

The first step is to create a new Nextflow pipeline. To do so, run nf-core create and follow the instructions:

When prompted, you can skip any of the template areas.

Step 2 - Pushing to GitHub

Create the repository on GitHub and push your pipeline code. If you choose to make your repository private; you will need to follow the guide on GitHub Integration with One Codex.

Step 3 - Creating the Workflow on One Codex

Log in to One Codex, go to the "Run Workflows" page and click "Create a New Workflow"

Select "Nextflow Pipeline" under Workflow Type and enter the Github URL under "Git Repository"

You should now see the "Arguments" section populated by the input arguments defined by your pipeline's nextflow_schema.json . You can read more about how configuring your workflow and defining arguments here.

Click "Save Draft" to create your Workflow

Step 4 - Running the Workflow

Your new Nextflow Workflow will now be available on the "Run Workflows" page. Select a sample and click "Run" next to your Workflow. This will bring you to the confirmation where you can configure the run by specifying values for its arguments.

Click "Run". You can view the status of your Workflow(s) by clicking "View Workflow Runs":

Clicking "Details" will bring you to a page where you can view the logs of your Workflow in real-time:

That's it! Hopefully things went well and your workflow has completed. From here, you might want to read more about how update and manage versions of your workflow in Workflows States and Permissions.

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