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Nextflow version of Sopa - spatial omics pipeline and analysis

Is nf-core/sopa beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to nf-core/sopa to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
21
Forks
7
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
4
Avg merge
3d 7h
Merged PRs (30d)
3
Dominant language
Nextflow
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 8, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
Contributing guide
Code of conduct
Code of conduct
Beginner labels
No beginner labels indexed

How to contribute to nf-core/sopa

  1. Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
  2. The project ships a dev container: open it in Codespaces to get a working environment in your browser.
  3. Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
  4. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Choose Z Stack to Use As Input for Pipeline
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 63/100

    nf-core/sopa#42 ·

  • Accelerate scverse/scanpy steps with rapids-singlecell
    May be free again @Zethson claimed this 165 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    nf-core/sopa#24 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Add recipes to bioconda
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

    nf-core/sopa#21 ·

  • cellpose error in comseg run
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    nf-core/sopa#10 · 4 comments ·

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