Invited to give a talk at a SciLifeLab DDLS event: Automation of research processes with LLMs and AI.
Abstract
Nextflow has become the leading tool for scientific workflows in bioinformatics, but writing workflows can be challenging. This talk introduces Seqera AI, a new tool that helps generate Nextflow pipelines either from scratch, from existing scripts, or even other workflow languages. I’ll discuss how Seqera AI is able to generate best-practice DSL2 code that follows nf-core guidelines, and how we go beyond just code generation: creating and running test suites with AI agents, streamlining development while improving code quality and validation.
Links
Interesting articles:
- BBC AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
- Wait But Why: The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
- Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead
Find out more:
- Nextflow Podcast
- Backgorund to LLMs for Nextflow - Episode 45: tinybio - Nextflow x AI
- Using Nextflow for ML workloads and research planning - Episode 34: Nextflow in materials science
- Nextflow Summit 2024
- Announcing Seqera AI - Solving the ‘blank page problem’ in bioinformatics
- Announcing MultiQC AI summaries - MultiQC: New features and flexible data parsing
Upcoming events:
- March 10, 2025: Nextflow Training
- March 24, 2025: nf-core hackathon
- May 13, 2025: Nextflow Summit Boston
- October 27, 2025: Nextflow Summit Barcelona
