Viash, Open-source bioinformatics framework, Versioned components, Containerised pipelines, Nextflow integration, Production-grade pipelines, Reproducible bioinformatics, Docker, OpenPipeline, Data Intuitive, Workflow components, Argument parser, Unit tests, Multi-language scripts
We author Viash, the open-source framework the workflows run on. It packages research-grade tools into versioned, containerised components, then assembles them into production-grade omics pipelines. Five-plus years in production, with named pharma and research institutes on board. The foundation is open-source and community-maintained, so you can audit it rather than trust a black box.
Each component carries its own metadata, runtime, and tests. The Viash runtime turns that triple into the artefacts you need: a CLI executable, a Docker image, a Nextflow workflow module and a test report.
config.vsh.yaml
Software dependencies are translated into a Dockerfile
Can be used as a standalone workflow or as a dependency
Detect errors early with continuous integration
The framework is what lets us promise reproducibility, portability and audit-readiness without shipping you a black box.
Every component is version-pinned and containerised. Re-run the same workflow next year, get the same result, with the audit trail captured at the run.
The same Viash component builds to a CLI executable, a Docker image and a Nextflow module. Run it natively, in Docker, or as part of a Nextflow pipeline. The choice is yours, not ours.
Viash is open-source under an OSI-aligned licence and community-maintained. You can audit the framework end to end. We use it; the rest of the field can too.
Framework, paper, source. Everything we build on is open. Here's where to find it.