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Side Quests

This is a collection of standalone training mini-courses that go deeper into specific topics. You can go through them in any order.

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Prerequisites

The specific prerequisites of each mini-courses vary and are documented in the corresponding pages. Nevertheless, they all assume some minimal familiarity with the following:

  • Experience with the command line
  • Foundational Nextflow concepts and tooling covered in the Hello Nextflow beginner training course.

For technical requirements and environment setup, see the Environment Setup mini-course.

If this is the first time you delve into the Side Quests, make sure to check out the Orientation page first!

Otherwise, select a side quest from the table below.

Side Quests

Side Quest Time Estimate for Teaching
Nextflow development environment walkthrough 45 mins
Introduction to nf-core -
Metadata in workflows 45 mins
Splitting and Grouping 45 mins
Testing with nf-test 1 hour
Workflows of workflows 30 mins
Working with files 45 mins
Debugging workflows -

Let us know what other domains and use cases you'd like to see covered here by posting in the Training section of the community forum.