Welcome!
What you're looking at right now is Workbench, the graphical interface to the Arvados system.
Click the Next > button below for a speed tour of Arvados.
Note: You can always come back to this Getting Started guide by clicking the in the upper-right corner.
Quickstart
Don't feel like reading? Run your first pipeline in 3 quick steps:
First, log-in or register in the upper-right corner with any Google account if you haven't already.
- Go to the Dashboard > Run a pipeline...
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- Mason Lab -- Ancestry Mapper (public) > Next: choose inputs
- Run
Voila!
Your pipeline is now spooling up and getting ready to run!
Go ahead, try it for yourself right now.
Or click Next > below to keep reading!
Three Useful Terms
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Pipeline -- A re-usable series of analysis steps.
** Sometimes known as a “workflow” in other systems
** A list of well-documented public pipelines can be found in the upper right corner by clicking the "?" > "Public Pipelines and Datasets"
** Pro-tip: Pipeline > Jobs > Tasks. A pipeline contains jobs which contain tasks.
** Pipelines can only be shared within a project
* Collection -- Like a folder, but better
** Upload data right in your browser
** Better than a folder?
*** Collections contain the content-address of the data instead of the data itself
*** Sets of data can be flexibly defined and re-defined without duplicating data
** Collections can be shared using the "Sharing and Permissions" > "Share" button
* Projects -- Contain pipelines templates, pipeline instances (individual runs of a pipeline), and collections
** The most useful one is your default "Home" project, under Projects > Home
** Projects can be shared using the "sharing" tab