Table 2.
Tool availability: summary representation of tools available to account holders in the Cloud Resources.
| Tool category | Tools | Broad FireCloud | ISB-CGC | SB-CGC |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workflows | CWL Workflow support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WDL Workflow support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Nextflow Workflow support | Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Publicly available workflows from Dockstore | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Analysis types | Existing workflows and tools used by community | Variant calling (long and short reads), GWAS, RNAseq, ML, Epigenomics, Fusion Detection | Variant calling (short reads), RNAseq, ML, CNV, Epigenomics, correlations using BigQuery derived datasets | Variant calling (long and short reads), GWAS, Bulk RNAseq, Single-Cell RNAseq, ML, Epigenomics, Multiomics, Proteomics, Fusion Detection, Imaging Analysis |
| Tutorials | Example tool analysis projects | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interactive applications | Jupyter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| RStudio | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| RShiny Apps | Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Galaxy | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| SAS | Coming soon | |||
| Command line sessions | Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Interactive querying (BigQuery, etc) | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| User-driven content | User written workflow support | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| User created interactive apps | Coming soon | ✓ | ✓ | |
| User defined project resources | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Analytic workspaces | APIs for scripting | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bring your own data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Access controlled data | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cloud native tool support | Billing | Cloud-specific | Cloud-specific | Integrated |
| Command line tools, e.g., gsutil | ✓ | ✓ | via Python / R | |
| Make use of Cloud-specific tools such as TensorFlow, BigQuery, etc. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| STRIDES support | ✓ | ✓ | Coming soon |
Note: Tools are broken down by category and status of tool availability within each CR.