[arvados] Arvados update, December 2014

[Tim Pierce]

As we start to wind down the year, we have some of our most exciting
features yet to offer. Our Thanksgiving sprint was a very productive one:
we found and fixed 29 bugs
<https://arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&f%5B%5D=fixed_version_id&op%5Bfixed_version_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bfixed_version_id%5D%5B%5D=80&f%5B%5D=status_id&op%5Bstatus_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bstatus_id%5D%5B%5D=3&f%5B%5D=tracker_id&op%5Btracker_id%5D=%3D&v%5Btracker_id%5D%5B%5D=1&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=tracker&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=priority&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=assigned_to&c%5B%5D=updated_on&c%5B%5D=done_ratio&group_by=tracker>
and implemented 7 new features
<https://arvados.org/projects/arvados/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&set_filter=1&f%5B%5D=fixed_version_id&op%5Bfixed_version_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bfixed_version_id%5D%5B%5D=80&f%5B%5D=status_id&op%5Bstatus_id%5D=%3D&v%5Bstatus_id%5D%5B%5D=3&f%5B%5D=tracker_id&op%5Btracker_id%5D=%3D&v%5Btracker_id%5D%5B%5D=2&f%5B%5D=&c%5B%5D=tracker&c%5B%5D=status&c%5B%5D=priority&c%5B%5D=subject&c%5B%5D=assigned_to&c%5B%5D=updated_on&c%5B%5D=done_ratio&group_by=tracker>
.

One of our most exciting new features is a browser-based collection upload
tool. If you have data sets already on your workstation to upload into
Arvados, you can do so right from your browser:



Being able to upload collections directly from your desktop makes it a snap
to get started using Arvados. Try it out yourself!
<https://workbench.qr1hi.arvadosapi.com/>

In addition to nifty web tools for making Arvados easier, we've been
working hard on other projects.

   - Curoverse has been an active participant in the *Common Workflow
   Language working group.
   <https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-language>*
   Our senior engineer Peter Amstutz contributed substantially to drafting the
   reference implementation. A tool for expressing bioinformatics workflows in
   a consistent, portable way across different systems is an important link in
   promoting collaboration between researchers on different projects. We see
   the Common Workflow Language as a critical component of modern
   bioinformatics platforms.
   - Pipeline authors can now *specify a particular SDK version* in their
   pipeline computations, offering better control over reproducibility.

On top of that, we've fixed a bunch of niggling little bugs that have made
Arvados much smoother to use: improved SSH key upload, more consistent
handling of file selections in collections, pipeline rendering, Firefox SSL
certificate bugs and much, much more!

Best,
Tim Pierce
Senior Software Engineer, Curoverse
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