Introduction
What is Workbench?
Workbench is a standards-compliant solution for performing omics data analysis in your own environment.
Workbench enables you to run workflows reproducibly and at scale on major cloud computing platforms as well as on on-premises high-performance computing (HPC) installations.
How It Works
Workbench breaks the model of data-centralization by bringing compute to your data—all managed through a centralized workflow management interface.
You can run workflows reproducibly and at scale on major cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud) or on-premises installations.
Key Features
Simplified Workflow Access: Choose from community-developed pipelines or create and run your own
Flexible Deployment: Connects to engines that live in your own environment, either on-premises or in the cloud
Multi-Platform Integration: Works with Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, and on-premises installations
Unified Analysis: Process data from any sequencer, with streamlined experience for running meticulously developed and tested pipelines
Command Line Tools: Programmatically submit runs and automate analysis by responding to events, like new samples coming off a sequencer
Visual Dashboard: Monitor analyses, showing critical metrics like successes and run times, with ability to search, filter, and manage large batches of runs using tags
Variant Interpretation: A web-based tool for interpreting omics data, with a focus on small variants but with support for other variant types. For more information, read the Variant Interpreter Overview.
Data Control
Workbench connects to engines that live in your environment, keeping data under your control or that of the controlling data steward at all times.
Getting Started
To use Workbench, you can either:
Use the Workbench web application
Use the downloadable command-line interface (CLI) package to connect to one or more workflow engines deployed in a compute environment.
When you submit a workflow, Workbench coordinates with the workflow engine to:
Interpret the workflow
Generate commands for individual tasks
Dispatch commands to cloud/local backend
Monitor progress and communicate status
When a workflow is complete, it will make outputs available in the locations defined in the workflow. Running the Tertiary Workflow will make all the processed files available on the Data Page ready for variant interpretation. Subsequent analysis and variant interpretation can be performed using the tools on the Variant Interpreter.
If you are interested in getting access to Workbench please contact our support team
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