diff --git a/software/samtools/index/meta.yml b/software/samtools/index/meta.yml
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+name: samtools index
+description: index a BAM or CRAM file
+keywords:
+    - index
+tools:
+    - samtools:
+        description: |
+            SAMtools is a set of utilities for interacting with and post-processing
+            short DNA sequence read alignments in the SAM, BAM and CRAM formats, written by Heng Li.
+            These files are generated as output by short read aligners like BWA.
+        homepage: http://www.htslib.org/
+        documentation: hhttp://www.htslib.org/doc/samtools.html
+        doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352
+input:
+    -
+        - input:
+            type: file
+            description: Input BAM or CRAM file
+            pattern: "*.{bam,cram}"
+output:
+    -
+        - index:
+            type: file
+            description: BAM or CRAM index file
+            pattern: "*.{bai}"
+authors:
+    - "@ewels"
diff --git a/software/samtools/index/test/main.nf b/software/samtools/index/test/main.nf
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+#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
+echo true
+
+cheers = Channel.from 'Bonjour', 'Ciao', 'Hello', 'Hola'
+
+process sayHello {
+  input:
+    val x from cheers
+  script:
+    """
+    echo '$x world!'
+    """
+}
diff --git a/software/samtools/index/test/nextflow.config b/software/samtools/index/test/nextflow.config
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+docker.enabled = true
+params.outdir = './results'