October 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

• Cohort Builder - We added two features, “Concept Set” and “Concept Quick Add,” to the Cohort Builder.
  • The “Concept Set” feature allows you to add concepts and create a concept set to then add to your cohort.
  • The “Concept Quick Add” feature allows you to add concepts based on concept ID. 
• Short-read WGS (srWGS) smaller callsets - We released updates to the short-read WGS (srWGS) smaller callsets to improve usability and to add missing variants (8%) to the ACAF callset. Read more about the srWGS smaller callsets.

Bug fixes

• When attempting to reattach a persistent disk to a new runtime, some researchers were unable to create a new runtime. This issue has been resolved.
• Some researchers experienced an issue with accessing the temporal feature of the Cohort Builder for the exclusion criteria. This issue has been resolved.

Support resources

• We released the Best Practices for All of Us Data Science featured workspace, which includes tutorials on best practices for querying All of Us data, using environment variables, and logistics regression.
• We added two new tutorial notebooks to the Data Wrangling featured workspace: How to perform logistics regression in Python and How to perform propensity score matching in R.
• We updated three articles, including:
  • How to use the Temporal Feature, which demonstrates the advanced features of the Cohort Builder.
  • Suggested Optimizations for Cost and Compute Time, which provides recommendations and some cost saving tips to help plan out your analysis.
  • Overview and resources to aid using Fitbit data available on All of Us Researcher Workbench, which provides details, links, and other resources to gain a better understanding of the All of Us Fitbit data.