Description:The nf-Wave plugin integrates Nextflow with the Wave container service to automatically build and provision containers on-demand from Conda packages or Dockerfiles, eliminating the need to pre-build and maintain container images. It solves the problem of container management complexity by dynamically creating optimized containers with only required dependencies. Bioinformaticians and data scientists using Nextflow pipelines would benefit from this plugin to simplify workflow reproducibility and reduce container management overhead.