As bioinformatics workflows grow in scale and complexity, automating the data retrieval, analysis, and interpretation is imperative for scalable analyses. What if pipelines could reason about their own execution, adapt to intermediate results, and collaborate with other agents to drive scientific discovery? In this session, we introduce best practices in building multi-agentic workflows for bioinformatics that combine the easy AI agent capabilities provided by the Microsoft Foundry platform with the power of Nextflow. We will demonstrate how to design AI agents that can interpret biological intent, dynamically parameterize and launch Nextflow pipelines, monitor execution state, and post-process results, closing the loop between human hypothesis and computational analysis.

This talk is a bio-themed deep dive into content from “Building Agentic Solutions with Microsoft Foundry” by Colby T. Ford, Ph.D. (O’Reilly Media, 2026) and is intended for bioinformaticians and AI developers who are exploring how agentic systems can augment reproducible computational biology.

Nextflow Summit 2026 | https://summit.nextflow.io/2026/boston/agenda/building-multi-agentic-bioworkflows-with-microsoft-foundry-and-nextflow/