October 2024 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

• SAS Auto Deletion - SAS Studio environments are automatically opted into the auto-delete function, which will automatically delete your SAS application if left idle for 1 day or other specified timeframe. Your persistent disk will not be deleted when your SAS application is auto-deleted. You can change your idle period, but SAS environments require auto-delete. Learn more about SAS in the Researcher Workbench.
• GCSFuse - We have added support for gcsfuse in the Researcher Workbench for RStudio and SAS Studio. This enhancement simplifies file storage, improves collaboration, and helps you save on persistent disk (PD) costs. Read more about gcsfuse and storage options.

Bug fixes

• Dataproc > Standard VM Bug - If researchers transitioned their environment from standard VM to dataproc cluster, and then attempt to go back to a standard VM, an environment failure occurred with loss of the original persistent disk created with the standard VM. This bug has been resolved.

Support resources

• We have revamped our Getting Started section to give you quick links and overviews for researchers new to the Researcher Workbench.
• New Office Hours informational sessions are available in the Video Library, including Introduction to the Cohort Builder and Dataset Builder, Using All of Us Survey Data, and an overview of Billing in the Researcher Workbench.
• We have updated a few of our tutorial featured workspaces:
  • • In the How to use Nextflow in the Researcher Workbench (v7) featured workspace, we updated the notebook 01.Nextflow_use_case_basic_job with instructions on how to update to the latest Nextflow version.
    • In the Best Practices for All of Us Data Science featured workspace, we made an update to the notebook 04.Genomics_use_case_VAT_bigquery demonstrating how to extract clinical significance data for variants of interest.
    • In the How to Work with All of Us Genomic Data (Hail - Plink)(v7), we added n a new file with the the eigenvalues for the 16 PCs

      • gs://fc-secure-a1399fa9-e075-42ce-8998-42bd9382d063/data/cdr_supplemental_files/v7/aou_v7_pca_training_eigenvalues.txt