Popular Environments

The DNAstack Client Library can be used from within your bioinformatics workflows on almost any platform or engine. This section demonstrates the execution of a simple workflow on a variety of popular environments:

• DNAnexus

• Terra

• Nextflow

• Cromwell

• CWLtool

Example Workflow

Our example workflow 02_download_collection_files demonstrates how to query and download 10 files from any collection in a Viral AI instance. You can find this and othe examples in the DNAstack Client Library worked examples Github repo.

The workflow is available in multiple formats:

• Workflow Descriptor Language (WDL)

• Common Workflow Language (CWL)

• Nextflow

Proceed to the next section to learn how to run our WDL workflow on various platforms.