Arvados™ Docs
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  1. Welcome
    1. Welcome to Arvados™!
    2. Arvados Community and Getting Help
  2. Walkthough
    1. Processing Whole Genome Sequences
  3. Using Workbench
    1. Accessing Arvados Workbench
    2. Running a workflow using Workbench
    3. Workbench 2 migration
  4. Working at the Command Line
    1. Getting started at the command line
    2. Getting an API token
    3. Checking your environment
  5. Access an Arvados virtual machine
    1. Accessing an Arvados VM with Webshell
    2. Accessing an Arvados VM with SSH - Unix Environments
    3. Accessing an Arvados VM with SSH - Windows Environments
  6. Working with data sets
    1. Uploading data
    2. Downloading data
    3. Access Keep as a GNU/Linux filesystem
    4. Access Keep from macOS Finder
    5. Access Keep from Windows File Explorer
    6. Trashing and untrashing data
    7. Using arv-copy
    8. Using collection versioning
    9. Using storage classes
  7. Data Analysis with Workflows
    1. Developing CWL Workflows with VSCode
    2. Getting Started with CWL
    3. Starting a Workflow at the Command Line
    4. arvados-cwl-runner options
    5. CWL Resources
    6. Working with container images
    7. Guidelines for Writing High-Performance Portable Workflows
    8. Arvados CWL Extensions
    9. Federated Multi-Cluster Workflows
    10. CWL version support
    11. Analyzing workflow performance
    12. Analyzing workflow cost (cloud only)
    13. Debugging workflows - shell access
  8. Working with git repositories
    1. Adding a new Arvados git repository
    2. Working with an Arvados git repository
  9. Reference
    1. Linking alternate login accounts
    2. Arvados SDK Examples
  10. Arvados License
    1. Arvados Free Software Licenses
    2. GNU Affero General Public License
    3. Apache License
    4. Creative Commons

Workbench 2 migration

Arvados is in the process of migrating from the classic web application, referred to as “Workbench 1”, to a completely new web application, referred to as “Workbench 2”.

Workbench 2 is the new Workbench web application that will, over time, replace Workbench 1. Workbench 2 is being built based on user feedback, and it is approaching feature parity with Workbench 1. Workbench 2 has a modern look and feel and offers several advanced features and performance enhancements. Arvados clusters typically have both Workbench applications installed and have a dropdown menu option in the user menu to switch between versions.

Workbench 2 is stable and recommended for general use, but still lacks some features available in the classic Workbench 1 application. When necessary, you can easily switch back:

Some major improvements of Workbench 2 include:

General

  • More responsive, only loads data needed for display
  • More familiar user interface, modeled on the file explorer of MacOS and Windows.
  • Advanced search capabilities

Project browsing

  • Expanded informational columns
  • Expanded filtering options
  • Right side informational panel providing details about selected item without navigating away from the project
  • Support for adding and querying user-supplied metadata properties on Projects

Collection browsing

  • Able to browse collections with millions of files
  • Support for adding and querying user-supplied metadata properties on Collections
  • Support for viewing past versions of a collection

User and Group management

  • Able to create user groups through the GUI
  • Able to add/view/remove members of user groups, and what permissions are shared with the group
  • Able to add/view/remove permissions shared with individual users
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Code samples in this documentation are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.