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Develop a pipeline

Using FlowDeploy to assist with local pipeline development.

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Some people don't need FlowDeploy develop mode! Develop mode is helpful for augmenting development your own computer with cloud resources for intensive steps.

After choosing an open-source pipeline – or starting from scratch – you can use FlowDeploy to develop on your own computer and selectively use the cloud for intensive steps.

This is useful if you want to test an intensive step – like alignment – that needs hundreds of gigabytes of memory, but you aren't ready to deploy a pipeline.

With Nextflow​

  1. Install Nextflow, if you haven't already.

  2. Connect your device to FlowDeploy.

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Develop mode might be disabled on your account. Contact your administrator or the FlowDeploy team for help.

  1. Clone the "Hello world!" project:
git clone nextflow-io/hello

  1. Edit line 11 of "main.nf" in the project to say "FlowDeploy" instead of "world"

  2. Run nextflow on the command-line, using demo data for this tutorial:

nextflow run nextflow-io/hello --pipeline main.nf --profile flowdeploy,docker
  1. You're running the custom pipeline tasks in the cloud through FlowDeploy! You can observe the run from either your computer or the FlowDeploy app.