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Category: Workflows

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Introducing task-level checkpointing in workflows

If your day-to-day involves workflows with long-running tasks, I have good news for you: we just released a new checkpointing feature that makes it possible to save intermediate outputs for a task and resume work from that point if the task gets interrupted. For context, the Cromwell workflow engine we use in Terra already had a smart resume capability at the level of the workflow, called “call caching”.

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A must-read review paper for getting started with bioinformatics workflows

New year, new partnership… and a new blog series focusing on highlighting papers that we think will be of interest to many of you. For this first iteration, we review a review paper (review-ception!) fresh off the virtual press over at GigaScience, coming out of C. Titus Brown’s lab at UC Davis, on the topic of workflow systems. 

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The freedom of portable workflows

One of the foundational principles of Terra is that it’s designed to be an open ecosystem, not a walled garden — there are no lock-in mechanisms. If after a while you decide to leave, you can take all the analysis tooling you’ve been using here and expect it to still be […]

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Coming Soon – Faster, cheaper workflows

Whether you’re processing ten data files or ten thousand, making your workflows run faster and cost less is always a goal. The Terra Workflow (aka “Batch”) team has been working on some cost and performance improvements. These aren’t available quite yet, but we wanted to give you a preview of two of the […]

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