Nextflow Enables Reproducible Computational Workflows

Overview

Journal Nat Biotechnol

Specialty Biotechnology

Date 2017 Apr 12

PMID 28398311

Citations 1339

Authors

Paolo Di Tommaso

Maria Chatzou

Evan W Floden

Pablo Prieto Barja

Emilio Palumbo

Cedric Notredame

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