---
title: "The Bioinformatics CRO Webinar"
description: "Reproducible Bioinformatics at Scale: nf-core + Nextflow"
url: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/talks/2026/02/18/the_bioinformatics_cro"
site: "phil.ewels.co.uk"
author: "Phil Ewels"
section: "Talks"
type: "Invited speaker"
date: "2026-02-18"
location: "Online"
event: "https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/webinar/reproducible-bioinformatics-scale-nf-core-nextflow/"
slides: "https://phil.ewels.co.uk/talks/2026/02/18/the_bioinformatics_cro/nextflow-nf-core-webinar.pdf"
video: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TtIlOZHDT8"
---

# The Bioinformatics CRO Webinar

> Reproducible Bioinformatics at Scale: nf-core + Nextflow

The Bioinformatics CRO is well known for its popular podcast
(check out [Episode 54](https://www.bioinformaticscro.com/podcast/evan-floden/), where they had Evan on to talk about Nextflow),
and the recently started a brand new webinar series.
They kindly invited me to join and speak about Nextflow and nf-core.

In this talk, I gave an overview of Nextflow and nf-core, focusing on some of the exciting new features from recent releases.
I covered the rewritten language parser with static types and strict syntax,
the VS Code extension and language server, and built-in data lineage tracking.
I also touched on Seqera Platform and how it fits into the picture for running pipelines at scale.

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From the personal website of Phil Ewels, a software developer and bioinformatician in Stockholm, Sweden: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/
The whole site as Markdown: https://phil.ewels.co.uk/llms.txt