.. _home-page-about:

**************
About the course
**************

.. autosummary::
   :toctree: generated


This slow-paced hands-on internal course is designed for absolute beginners who want to start using  `Nextflow DSL2 <https://www.nextflow.io>`_ to achieve reproducibility of the data analysis.


.. |luca| image:: images/lcozzuto.jpg
  :alt: Luca Cozzuto

.. |toni| image:: images/thermoso.jpg
  :alt: Toni Hermoso Pulido

.. |emilio| image:: images/emilio.jpeg
  :alt: Emilio Palumbo

.. |jose| image:: images/jose.jpeg
  :alt: Jose Espinosa

.. |julia| image:: images/jponomarenko.jpg
  :alt: Julia Ponomarenko

.. |ctuni| image:: images/cristuni.jpeg
  :alt: Cris Tuni


.. list-table:: Main instructors:
   :widths: 50 50 50
   :header-rows: 1

   * - Luca Cozzuto
     - Toni Hermoso
     - Emilio Palumbo
   * - |luca|
     - |toni|
     - |emilio|

   * - Jose Espinosa
     - Cris Tuni
     - Julia Ponomarenko
   * - |jose|
     - |ctuni|
     - |julia|


.. _home-page-dates

Dates, time, location
=========================

* Dates: From 22nd to 25th of April 2025.

* Location: CRG training room


.. _home-page-outline:

Outline
============

This Nextflow course will train participants to build Nextflow pipelines and run them with Linux containers.

.. _home-page-learning:

Learning objectives
============

* Execute/Run a Nextflow pipeline.
* Describe and explain Nextflow basic concepts.
* Test and modify a Nextflow pipeline.
* Implement short blocks of code into a Nextflow pipeline.
* Use containers in Nextflow processes
* Develop a Nextflow pipeline from scratch.
* Run a pipeline in diverse computational environments (local, HPC, cloud).
* Share a pipeline.

.. _home-page-prereq:

Prerequisite / technical requirements
============


Being comfortable working with the CLI (command-line interface) in a Linux-based environment.
Knowledge of containers is not mandatory. The course materials is online in the dedicated GitHub page for self-learning.

Having a `GitHub account <https://github.com/join>`_ is recommended.