nf-core
nf-core is a community-owned, open-source project that curates and develops portable, documented and reproducible bioinformatics analysis pipelines built with Nextflow. It also provides shared modules, templates, configuration, testing, tooling and community governance so researchers and organisations can run dependable workflows on laptops, HPC systems and clouds.
At a Glance
- Academic research groups
- Core genomics and sequencing facilities
- Clinical and translational bioinformatics teams
- Pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations
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Latest News
October 2026 nf-core newsletter reported 16 pipeline releases, three upcoming events and new pipeline first releases.
nf-core/tools 4.1.0 released with beta container creation commands, faster CLI startup and a large-file pre-commit hook.
Maintainers Minutes for May-June 2026 covered agentic coding, strict-syntax configs, megatests, local modules and the new container subcommand.
nf-core launched its monthly community newsletter covering pipeline releases, community news and events.
Products & Services
A curated catalogue of Nextflow analysis pipelines; the official catalogue lists 158 pipelines, including 105 released, 39 under development and 14 archived. Examples include rnaseq, sarek, ampliseq, fetchngs and viralmetagenome.
A shared repository of tool-specific Nextflow DSL2 module files and reusable components for the Nextflow community.
A Python package and command-line toolkit for creating, linting, testing, updating and maintaining nf-core pipelines, modules, subworkflows and configurations; 4.1.0 added beta container-creation commands and faster CLI startup.
Shared Nextflow configuration files defining compute-environment-specific settings for institutions and execution platforms.
Market Position
nf-core differentiates itself from general workflow repositories and individual bioinformatics pipelines through a curated, community-governed catalogue with strict conventions, reusable modules, automated CI, stable releases, documentation and reproducibility testing. It is complementary to rather than a replacement for workflow engines such as Nextflow and platforms such as Seqera Platform, Galaxy and cloud/HPC schedulers; its closest alternatives are other curated workflow collections and platform-specific pipeline ecosystems.
Leadership
Founders
Phil Ewels
Head of the development facility at NGI Stockholm, part of SciLifeLab, when nf-core was created; he is listed as an early project shaper and current steering-committee member.
Alexander (Alex) Peltzer
Early nf-core contributor who the official history identifies as one of the people who greatly shaped the project's early days; current steering-committee member.
Sven Fillinger
Early nf-core contributor associated with the Quantitative Biology Center (QBIC) in Tübingen, Germany; identified by nf-core as an early project shaper.
Andreas Wilm
Early nf-core contributor identified by the official project history as one of the people who greatly shaped nf-core's early days.
Executive Team
Phil Ewels
Core team member; steering-committee member
Founded the project while heading the NGI Stockholm development facility and remains listed in nf-core governance.
Anabella Trigila
Core team member
Long-time contributor who joined the core team in April 2026; contributions span pipelines, modules, tooling, reviews, events and community work.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
NGI Stockholm had spent several years developing genomics-analysis pipelines and introduced common standards to make them easier for Swedish research groups and other core facilities to run. As users and contributors grew, the pipelines outgrew the SciLifeLab/NGI branding, so in early 2018 Phil Ewels and collaborators created nf-core as a genuinely collaborative project and moved the relevant pipelines into a new GitHub organisation.
Business Model
Revenue Model
nf-core is a community-owned open-source project rather than a conventional commercial company. Its development is predominantly voluntary and is supported through grants, institutional employment of contributors, sponsorship and in-kind infrastructure or cloud credits; the code is MIT licensed and the public project does not advertise paid subscriptions or usage fees.
Pricing Tiers
nf-core code and pipelines are MIT licensed and available on GitHub for use, modification and forking.
Target Markets
- Academic research groups
- Core genomics and sequencing facilities
- Clinical and translational bioinformatics teams
- Pharmaceutical and biotechnology organisations
- HPC centres and cloud-computing users
- Nextflow pipeline developers and open-source contributors
- RNA-seq, DNA-seq, variant calling and other genomics analyses
- Metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, microbiome and pathogen analysis
- Proteomics and mass-spectrometry workflows
- Single-cell and immune-repertoire analysis
- Reproducible research pipelines for academic and clinical genomics facilities
- Production bioinformatics workloads on institutional HPC and public clouds
- SciLifeLab National Genomics Infrastructure
- Quantitative Biology Center
- Centre for Genomic Regulation
- Seqera