Build your nf-core pipeline dashboard with Depictio

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Build interactive analysis dashboards for your nf-core pipeline results — no web development required.

Goal

Create ready-to-use dashboard templates that combine MultiQC reports, Plotly figures, metric cards, geomaps, images, and interactive cross-filtering for any nf-core pipeline. Once a template exists for a pipeline, anyone can populate it with their own results — no configuration needed.

What is Depictio?

Depictio is an open-source platform for building interactive data dashboards from pipeline results. It features a drag-and-drop UI, YAML-based configuration, sharing capabilities, designed for bioinformaticians who want to visualize and share results without writing frontend code.

• Docs: depictio.github.io/depictio-docs
• Install locally or use the hosted instance at SciLifeLab Serve (available to Swedish researchers and SciLifeLab collaborators)

Why build a dashboard?

• Aggregate MultiQC reports across runs to track quality over time
• Create shareable apps for publications and collaborators
• Replace one-off scripts with reusable, interactive visualizations

Tasks

1. Choose an nf-core pipeline you love and/or work with
2. Write the YAML configuration that tells Depictio which pipeline outputs to register (file paths, formats, data types) and how they link together
3. Design a multi-tab dashboard combining relevant plots, tables, and metrics using the drag-and-drop editor
4. Share your dashboard template and configuration with the community

Lightweight peer-review

To ensure template quality, we’d like domain experts to do a lightweight review: check whether the structure, selected metrics, and interpretation logic make sense from their perspective, without taking on any Depictio maintenance responsibility. A sanity check from someone who knows the biology, not a long-term commitment.

Longer-term vision

The longer-term goal is to provide standardised, reusable templates that can be populated automatically via an nf-core plugin triggered at the end of a pipeline run, pushing workflow outputs directly into Depictio. Multiple templates may exist for the same pipeline depending on the type of analysis.

Prerequisites

• Familiarity with an nf-core pipeline and its output structure (which files are produced, their formats) is the main prerequisite
• Optionally bring results from a pipeline run (or plan to use test/megatest datasets)
• Skim the Depictio documentation
• No frontend or web development experience needed. Familiarity with YAML is recommended.

We welcome contributors of all experience levels.