Step 26 - The missing link

Creating and maintaining all the necessary files for a modules, especially with the amount of (duplicate) boilerplate code in each of them may seem like a daunting task. It is… Therefore, we developed a tool that is able to add the boilerplate for us: viash.

viash takes as input a specification of a command/tool, how to run and test it. viash can then turn this specification into runnable script, a containerized executable or a NextFlow module.