[snackematician]

Nextflow is indeed the best option today. It's sad that it's based on Groovy though, which seems past its heyday as a language/community.

I'm very excited that this is based on Scheme -- I've long wanted a lispy workflow language!

I'm a little concerned about the coverage of the Guix package manager though. I guess instead of writing Dockerfiles the user would have to learn to write Guix packages.

The "Getting Started" example uses samtools so I guess this is oriented towards a similar bioinformatics audience. However without HPC/Cloud support it's probably not too practical, yet.

Addendum: Listened to the FOSDEM 2019 talk, seems like it does support Docker and HPC. However I need AWS Batch support for it to be really useful to me, hopefully that will be implemented at some point.

[zekrioca]

If there is Docker/HPC/AWS support in the system through its local commands, there will be support.. Check the cluster mode setup in guix documentation (https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/guix.html)

Edit: adding gnu guix manual link

[zmmmmm]

> s sad that it's based on Groovy though

It's actually very cool since you can drop in any Java library you like, which is particularly nice in the bioinformatics space where HTSJDK, Picard and co. give you enormous power in that space.