In this News and Views episode, Phil Ewels, Chris Hakkaart, and Marcel Ribeiro-Dantas discuss the hottest topics in the Nextflow world.

The News and Views podcast format

• News and views will be short format podcasts and will cover things going on in the Nextflow community.
• We will record “Seasons” of around six 20-25 min episodes.
• Rob’s interviews (previously called nf-cast) will continue and will also be released every 1-2 months.
• We’re hoping to live-stream and incorporate live comments in the next season (March 2023).
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  • Slack channel: #channels-podcast

Nextflow for astronomers

• Exciting new application of Nextflow.
• An example of Nextflow being used outside of traditional bioinformatics.
• New Nextflow training aimed at astronomers with an example pulsar search pipeline.
• Check #astronomy on nf-core Slack for more details.

New initiatives in Asia-Pacific

• Chris recently attended AMSI, COMBINED, ABACBS, and SBEI in Melbourne Australia.
• Met with a lot of community members and some of the BioCommons team.
• Really excited to start work on new initiatives in the Asia-Pacific (watch this space!).

nf-core/tools 2.7 release

• A release of nf-core/tools 2.7 is underway.
• New features include:
  • New nf-core subworkflows subcommand for creating, removing, testing, updating, and finding subworkflows. More info here.
  • Every pipeline has now its own GitHub codespace template, which can be used to develop the pipeline directly in the browser.
  • Improved handling of modules and subworkflows from other repos than nf-core/modules.
  • Pre-commit is now installed as a dependency, which allows us, besides other things, to automatically run prettier to properly format auto-generated JSON / YAML on the fly even if Prettier has not already been manually installed locally.
  • Shell completion for nf-core commands. More information here.