April 2023 Product Release Notes

The following release notes cover the most recent changes over the last two months. If you have any questions, email the All of Us Researcher Workbench support team at support@researchallofus.org.

All of Us Researcher Workbench features and updates

• New data - We released the All of Us Curated Data Repository (CDR) version 7 (v7) which contained updated participant data (cut off date of July 1, 2022), new surveys, and updated genomic data. The data release is part of our commitment to updating available data to reflect the continued growth of the All of Us Research Program.
• CATI flag in the Cohort Builder - We added a flag in the Cohort Builder to indicate if a participant used a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview. The flag is accessible in the "Under age of event" area as an optional modifier in the Cohort Builder.
• Cohort Builder functionality - We updated the Cohort Builder and other search functionality, including:
  • Search functions - More options are available for text searches in the Cohort Builder. For example, the search functionality for searching on survey criteria, concept sets, and Universal Search has been enhanced to take advantage of the wildcard character (*).  This will allow a researcher to search for specific results that begin or end with a certain search term.  For example, searching *statin will return all results that end with “statin”.
  • Multiple cohort review -  When a researcher created a review for a cohort, they were only able to create one review per cohort. Researcher are able to create multiple reviews per cohort and will be alerted if a review is outdated (e.g., if participants no longer apply to a cohort).
• Cromwell support - We released an improved Cromwell solution. You can now launch a Cromwell server as a kubernetes based application from the new application panel on the right hand menu of your workspace. You can interact with it through the command line (“Cromshell”). Read more about Cromwell support in the Researcher Workbench.
• New surveys - We incorporated new surveys into the Researcher Workbench, including the New Year Minute Survey and the Revised Personal, Family Health History survey.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) storage - Researchers can use GCP tools to read metadata about the CDR bucket and your workspace buckets instead of being limited to just using gsutil commands. Navigate to the “About” tab of your workspace and click the link under "File Management" to browse files in the GCP Cloud Console. Read more about accessing the workspace bucket.
• Application support - We released a new interface on the "Analysis" tab and side panel for applications.
• Cloud Environment tab - Researchers can readily view information about their cloud analysis environment and any attached persistent disks. Navigate to the “Cloud Environment” tab under your Researcher Workbench profile.
  

Support resources

• We created a New User Satisfaction Survey to gather feedback on your satisfaction with the All of Us Researcher Workbench. The survey becomes available two weeks after you finish account creation. You can access the survey via a notification in the Researcher Workbench or directly through your email. Your feedback is incredibly valuable to the All of Us Research Program to determine how we can improve the Researcher Workbench experience.
• We updated three featured workspaces to aid researchers in utilizing the new dataset:  How to Work with Genomic Data based on new Hail formats,  How to Work with Survey Data to include new surveys, and  How to Work with Wearable Data to include Fitbit sleep level data.
• We released the Long COVID demonstration project featured workspace.