[bafe]

They try to address similar solutions, but comparing snakemake and nextflow doesn't do either tool a favour. They use different computation models, nextflow is based on dataflow programming and therefore schedules processes dynamically as new data comes in, while snakemake is pull-based and schedules the processes based on the dag defined by the dependencies. Anyhow they are both great tools.

[geoffjentry]

While true that’s a minor distinction when comparing the clusters of bioinformatics workflow systems vs workflow systems aimed at different domains

[bafe]

While these two are aimed at bioinformatics, they are general purpose enough that you can apply them to any computational workflow. I can say they saved my PhD