Geraldine Van der Auwera

Support bring-your-own app in Cloud Environments

It would be great to be able to run arbitrary applications within a Cloud Environment, similar to the "custom environment" functionality that allows us to make eg a custom Notebook environment — bu...

• Geraldine Van der Auwera
• June 24, 2022 19:56
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1. Community
2. General Discussion
3. Terra API documentation?

Just in case someone finds this: there is now a documentation article that provides more details about how to use the Terra API and the FISS library (including example notebooks) here: https://supp...

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• May 12, 2022 15:36
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Nextflow support in Terra

Nextflow is a popular bioinformatics workflow language with a fast-growing community of users. It is technically possible to submit Nextflow workflows from within a notebook in Terra but it would b...

• Geraldine Van der Auwera
• April 05, 2022 17:55
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• 9 comments
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Add comment log to the workspace

I'd like to be able to post comments in my workspace (either in the dashboard or in a separate tab, with timestamps and author ID associated) to keep track of events/observations in the course of a...

• Geraldine Van der Auwera
• March 10, 2022 06:34
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1. Community
2. Active Feature Requests
3. Give users control over deleting bucket data to better manage cloud costs

Totally understand there are use cases like what you describe that aren't currently covered, for sure. I believe there is some work in progress to address some of this, though I'm not personally aw...

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• January 14, 2022 17:52
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1. Community
2. Active Feature Requests
3. Give users control over deleting bucket data to better manage cloud costs

Hi Ricky, this is definitely an important topic, thanks for writing in. We do have a couple of official solutions for this, which may not cover the full spectrum of what you're envisioning, but add...

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• January 14, 2022 17:04
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Make workspace environment variables available in workflow configuration

We have workflows that need to write outputs to a specific path in the workspace bucket, eg the Cumulus workflow in the Intro to HCA data workspace. This is usually done when the workflow does not ...

• Geraldine Van der Auwera
• December 04, 2021 14:12
• 4 followers
• 3 comments
• 5 votes

1. Community
2. Completed Feature Requests
3. FR: Add a description field to the "Workspace data" tab

Ooh this is a great idea, seconded

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• December 02, 2021 20:46
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1. Documentation
2. ...
3. Workflows setup
4. Saving storage costs by deleting intermediate files

Hi Andrew Davidson, I created a ticket for our support team to consider this as a feature request. If you're not familiar with it, the Feature Requests section of the forum is a great place to post...

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• July 29, 2021 04:25
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