diff --git a/modules/nf-core/pairix/meta.yml b/modules/nf-core/pairix/meta.yml
index 2b837d12e19..f5277182514 100644
--- a/modules/nf-core/pairix/meta.yml
+++ b/modules/nf-core/pairix/meta.yml
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ description: |
   containing pairs of genomic coordinates
 keywords:
   - index
+  - block-compressed
+  - pairs
 tools:
   - pairix:
       description: 2D indexing on bgzipped text files of paired genomic coordinates
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/pairix/tests/main.nf.test b/modules/nf-core/pairix/tests/main.nf.test
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bcfffff8549
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/pairix/tests/main.nf.test
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+
+nextflow_process {
+
+    name "Test Process PAIRIX"
+    script "../main.nf"
+    process "PAIRIX"
+
+    tag "modules"
+    tag "modules_nfcore"
+    tag "pairix"
+
+    test("test-pairix") {
+        
+        when {
+            process {
+                """
+                input[0] = [ [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
+				file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/4dn-dcic/pairix/master/samples/4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz", checkIfExists: true) ]
+
+                """
+            }
+        }
+
+        then {
+            assertAll(
+                { assert process.success },
+                { assert snapshot(process.out).match() }
+            )
+        }
+    }
+    
+}
diff --git a/modules/nf-core/pairix/tests/main.nf.test.snap b/modules/nf-core/pairix/tests/main.nf.test.snap
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d11b4bb4cbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/nf-core/pairix/tests/main.nf.test.snap
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{
+    "test-pairix": {
+        "content": [
+            {
+                "0": [
+                    [
+                        {
+                            "id": "test",
+                            "single_end": false
+                        },
+                        "4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz:md5,ee90dc99987ece492d598ed939d54561",
+                        "4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz.px2:md5,a6e41cc7cff16fd15b5ee505549ec99a"
+                    ]
+                ],
+                "1": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,848c8be602ec36645d30010ea30f0684"
+                ],
+                "index": [
+                    [
+                        {
+                            "id": "test",
+                            "single_end": false
+                        },
+                        "4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz:md5,ee90dc99987ece492d598ed939d54561",
+                        "4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz.px2:md5,a6e41cc7cff16fd15b5ee505549ec99a"
+                    ]
+                ],
+                "versions": [
+                    "versions.yml:md5,848c8be602ec36645d30010ea30f0684"
+                ]
+            }
+        ],
+        "meta": {
+            "nf-test": "0.8.4",
+            "nextflow": "24.04.4"
+        },
+        "timestamp": "2024-08-23T11:25:18.874503"
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
index 476c1a5de98..129dbffc219 100644
--- a/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
+++ b/tests/config/pytest_modules.yml
@@ -998,9 +998,6 @@ oncocnv:
 paftools/sam2paf:
   - modules/nf-core/paftools/sam2paf/**
   - test/modules/nf-core/paftools/sam2paf/**
-pairix:
-  - modules/nf-core/pairix/**
-  - tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/**
 pairtools/dedup:
   - modules/nf-core/pairtools/dedup/**
   - tests/modules/nf-core/pairtools/dedup/**
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/main.nf b/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/main.nf
deleted file mode 100644
index 04591eaf0c3..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/main.nf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env nextflow
-
-nextflow.enable.dsl = 2
-
-include { PAIRIX } from '../../../../modules/nf-core/pairix/main.nf'
-
-workflow test_pairix {
-
-    input = [ [ id:'test', single_end:false ], // meta map
-              file("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/4dn-dcic/pairix/master/samples/4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz", checkIfExists: true) ]
-
-    PAIRIX ( input )
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/nextflow.config b/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/nextflow.config
deleted file mode 100644
index 8730f1c4b93..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/nextflow.config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-process {
-
-    publishDir = { "${params.outdir}/${task.process.tokenize(':')[-1].tokenize('_')[0].toLowerCase()}" }
-
-}
diff --git a/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/test.yml b/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/test.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 88cd5fcf985..00000000000
--- a/tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/test.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-- name: pairix test_pairix
-  command: nextflow run ./tests/modules/nf-core/pairix -entry test_pairix -c ./tests/config/nextflow.config -c ./tests/modules/nf-core/pairix/nextflow.config
-  tags:
-    - pairix
-  files:
-    - path: output/pairix/4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz
-      md5sum: a0165859d0151f45fe6fb206f2f4814b
-    - path: output/pairix/4dn.bsorted.chr21_22_only.nontriangle.pairs.gz.px2
-      md5sum: a6e41cc7cff16fd15b5ee505549ec99a