February 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

• 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. Researchers are able to create multiple reviews per cohort and will be alerted if a review is outdated (e.g., if participants no longer apply to a cohort).
• Terra Terms of Service - Terra updated their Terms of Service. Terra is the platform that the Researcher Workbench is built off of.
• 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.
• Jupyter images - We added new tools for Jupyter images including SAIGE, QIMEE2, PanGenie, minimap2, WhatsHap, RepeatMasker, and igv-jupyter.
• Structural variant (SV) and long-read data - We provide additional support for SV data and Long read data analysis with SAIGE.

Bug fixes

• Some researchers were temporarily unable to edit newly created workspaces. This issue has been resolved.
• In some cases, the demographic survey failed if input text was greater than a certain limit. This issue has been resolved.
• To prevent unnecessary spend, we optimized free tier BigQuery usage.

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 added a new filter option in the Data Browser for genomic variants so you can browse variants by allele count, allele frequency, and allele number.