Follow-up Questions after Reviewing Anvil Resources

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Hello. Our research group is looking to use Anvil for our ABCD-related projects, and we have a few questions after reviewing the information present from the learn page and getting started with the Anvil web-book. Could you please provide clarification on the following please?

  1. How long can we pause analysis on workspaces for interactive sessions and pre-established pipelines respectively?

  2. Is it possible for us to configure a workspace with all our custom/desired packages/programs (i.e., PLINK, Anaconda, Magma, etc.) and make copies of it when we’re performing a given interactive session, pre-established pipeline, etc?

For our own genetic data, we use a high performance computing resource from our university and are able to call functions from the packages we’ve already installed, so we’re wondering if we could do something similarly with Anvil.

Thank you for the help

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Hi @jkaralis ,

  1. As far as I know, there is no limit on paused environments.
  2. You have a couple of options. These could be:
  • creating a docker image or start up script with packages, tools, etc for Jupyter, RStudio interactive sessions (you could use this each time you create a new environment)
  • importing histories to Galaxy (would be manually imported in each environment)
  • creating a WDL that is attached to the workspace (automatic when cloning workspaces)

Thanks!
Ava