About Flow-IQ
Flow-IQ is a toolkit designed to help researchers transition bioinformatics workflows from traditional HPC environments like Biowulf to the AWS cloud.
Key Features
- An interactive toolkit for mapping Biowulf environment modules to matching Docker images, along with curated links to cloud-accessible datasets (e.g., AWS Open Data equivalents of Biowulf iGenomes).
- Guides and demos on using
nf-core/toolsand custom linters to verify that pipelines are cloud-ready. - Step-by-step instructions for building custom pipelines from nf-core modules that run on both HPC and AWS environments.
How It's Organized
The User Guide walks you through each step of building a custom Nextflow pipeline using nf-core modules. You'll learn how to assemble your pipeline, make it portable, and prepare it for cloud deployment using linters and the Flow-IQ Explorer to locate compatible data and containers.
This resource was developed by Wendy Wong, a bioinformatician at the National Cancer Institute - Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, and Jesse Marks, a bioinformatics software engineer at RTI International - GenOmics and Translational Research Center.