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

The example workflow 02_download_collection_files will query and download 10 files from any collection in Viral AI instance.

Workflows and scripts may be found in examples of 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.