AWS HealthOmics announces automatic input parameter interpolation for Nextflow workflows

Today, AWS HealthOmics introduces automatic interpolation of input parameters for Nextflow private workflows, eliminating the need for manual parameter template creation. This enhancement intelligently identifies and extracts both required and optional input parameters directly from workflow definitions, along with their descriptions.AWS HealthOmics is a HIPAA-eligible service that helps healthcare and life sciences customers accelerate scientific breakthroughs with fully managed biological data stores and workflows.

With this new feature, customers can launch bioinformatics workflows more quickly since they no longer need to manually identify, define, and validate each workflow parameter. This also helps reduce configuration errors that can occur when parameters are incorrectly specified or omitted. For specialized requirements, customers can still provide custom parameter templates to override the automatically generated configurations.

Input parameter interpolation for Nextflow workflows is now supported in all regions where AWS HealthOmics is available: US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London), Asia Pacific (Singapore), and Israel (Tel Aviv). Automatic parameter interpolation is already supported for WDL and CWL workflows today.

To learn more about automatic parameter interpolation and how to build private workflows, see the AWS HealthOmics documentation.