What problem does it solve?
This Skill provides comprehensive control over the DNAnexus cloud platform, enabling users to develop, deploy, and manage complex genomics analyses and data pipelines efficiently.
Core Features & Use Cases
- App Development: Build and deploy custom bioinformatics applications and applets.
- Data Management: Upload, download, search, and organize large-scale genomics datasets.
- Workflow Orchestration: Run and monitor complex multi-step analysis pipelines.
- SDK Utilization: Leverage the
dxpy Python SDK for programmatic control and automation.
- Use Case: A researcher needs to run a variant calling pipeline on thousands of FASTQ files stored on DNAnexus. They can use this Skill to develop a custom applet, upload their data, configure the pipeline, and launch the analysis jobs, monitoring their progress through the platform.
Quick Start
Use the dnanexus-integration skill to upload the local file '/path/to/my_data.fastq' to your DNAnexus project 'project-xxxx'.