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Materials guide

This page provides links to the teaching materials used to deliver the workshop, along with guidance for trainers using or adapting them.

Workshop materials

Using these materials

These pages document the instructor-facing view of the workshop. The participant-facing workshop materials can be viewed in the workshop materials section.

To adapt and deploy the materials template for your own delivery, see the deployment instructions.

The workshop materials provide a hands-on introduction to Nextflow, with a focus on reproducible and scalable workflow development for bioinformatics. The workshop is structured in two parts, moving from foundational concepts to the practical development of a multi-sample workflow.

The aim of the workshop is to introduce Nextflow best practices and focus on the concepts and features most useful for beginners. Because Nextflow has a broad feature set, the materials prioritise the knowledge learners need to begin using it confidently.

Trainer guidance

While the workshop includes detailed technical content, trainers should continue to connect the material back to biology and research practice. The intended audience is bioscientists who want to use Nextflow to process data and run analyses in support of their research or applied work.

When teaching, it may help to emphasise:

  • why workflow reproducibility matters
  • how Nextflow supports scalable analysis
  • how the examples relate to real bioinformatics tasks

Notes from previous trainers

Below are lesson notes from trainers who have previously delivered this workshop.