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The presentation below was filmed during the May 2016 FireCloud Workshop for Firehose Users, part of the Ó³»­´«Ã½E Workshop series.

The aim of this workshop is to introduce Firehose users to the FireCloud environment via an introduction and a hands-on tutorial.

FireCloud is a cancer genome analysis platform built on a cloud computing environment (Google) with co-located TCGA data that was created and designed for the community of cancer researchers. FireCloud is modeled on Firehose, the cancer genome analysis platform built by the Getz lab at the Ó³»­´«Ã½ Institute, which supports both small groups and major projects (e.g., TCGA, GTEx). Firehose is used by both production managers for large-scale analysis and analysts for interactive analysis, curation, and manual review of data for publication.

Like Firehose, FireCloud is built around "workspaces," which have robust security and access control, and which hold data, tools, workflows, and results. FireCloud will hold best-practice tools and workflows that are currently in use at the Ó³»­´«Ã½. In addition, FireCloud will host pre-loaded workspaces (e.g., TCGA-THCA workspace) holding data, pipelines, and results. These workspaces can be cloned and used to co-analyze user uploaded data. TCGA data — both protected and open access — will be co-located with FireCloud. Protected access data will require ERA Commons authorization and appropriate dbGaP permissions.