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h1. Port a Pipeline
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Like any other tool, Arvados requires time to learn. Thus, we don't encourage using Arvados for initial development of analysis pipelines or exploratory research on small subsets of data, when each quick-and-dirty iteration takes minutes on a single machine. But for any computationally-intense work, Arvados offers a lot of benefits.
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Okay, cool, provenance, reproducibility, easily scaling to gigabytes of data and mucho RAM, evaluating existing pipelines like lobSTR quickly.
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But what about if you want to these benefits when running your own pipelines?
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In other words, how do you **port a pipeline** to Arvados?
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h2. 1. Quick Way
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First, do you just want to parallelize a single bash script?
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Check if you can use @arv-run@. Take this @arv-run@ example, which searches multiple FASTQ files in parallel, and saves the results to Keep through shell redirection:
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    $ arv-run grep -H -n GCTACCAAGTTT \< *.fa \> output.txt
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h3. 1.1 Install arv-run
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See: http://doc.arvados.org/sdk/python/sdk-python.html and http://doc.arvados.org/user/reference/api-tokens.html, or in short below:
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$ sudo apt-get install python-pip python-dev libattr1-dev libfuse-dev pkg-config python-yaml
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$ sudo pip install --pre arvados-python-client
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(Lost? See http://doc.arvados.org/sdk/python/sdk-python.html )
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If you try to use arv run right now, it will complain about some settings your missing. To fix that,
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# Go to http://cloud.curoverse.com
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# Login with any Google account (you may need to click login a few times if you hit multiple redirects from Google)
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# Click in the upper right on your account name -> Manage Account
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... !{height:10em}manage_account.png!:manage_account.png
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# Optional: While you're here, click "send request for shell access", since that will give you shell access to a VM with all of the Arvados tools pre-installed.
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1) !{height:10em}send_request.png!:send_request.png 2) !{height:10em}request_sent.png!:request_sent.png 3) !{height:10em}access_granted.png!:access_granted.png 
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# Copy the lines of text into your terminal, something like
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HISTIGNORE=$HISTIGNORE:'export ARVADOS_API_TOKEN=*'
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export ARVADOS_API_TOKEN=sekritlongthing
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export ARVADOS_API_HOST=qr1hi.arvadosapi.com
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unset ARVADOS_API_HOST_INSECURE
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</pre> ... !{height:5em}terminal_ssh.png!:terminal_ssh.png
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# If you want this to persist across reboot, add the above lines to @~/.bashrc@ or your @~/.bash_profile@
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(Lost? See http://doc.arvados.org/user/reference/api-tokens.html )
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h3. 1.2 Submit job to Arvados
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First, check: Does your command work locally?
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    $ grep -H -n GCTACCAAGTTT *.fa
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If so, then submit it to arvados using @arv run@
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    $ arv-run grep -H -n GCTACCAAGTTT \< *.fa \> output.txt
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* This bash command stores the results as @output.txt@
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* Note that due to the particulars of grep, Arvados will report this pipeline as failed if grep does not find anything, and no output will appear on Arvados
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Your dataset is uploaded to Arvados if it wasn't on there already (which may take a while if it's a large dataset), your @grep@ job is submitted to run on the Arvados cluster, and you get the results in a few minutes (stored inside @output.txt@ in Arvados). If you go to Workbench at http://cloud.curoverse.com, you will see the pipeline running. It may take a few minutes for Arvados to spool up a node, provision it, and run your job. The robots are working hard for you, grab a cup of coffee.
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(Lost? See http://doc.arvados.org/user/topics/arv-run.html )
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h3. 1.3 However
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If your pipeline looks more like
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!{width: 50%}https://arvados.org/attachments/download/428/provenance_graph_full.png!:https://arvados.org/attachments/download/428/provenance_graph_full.png
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@arv-run@ is not powerful enough. Here we gooooo.
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(yes, that is a screenshot of an actual pipeline graph auto-generated by Arvados)
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h2. 2. In Short
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**Estimated reading time: 1 hour.**
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You must write a **pipeline template** that describes your pipeline to Arvados.
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h3. 2.1 VM (Virtual Machine) Access
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Note: You'll need the Arvados set of command-line tools to follow along. The easiest way to get started is to get access to a Virtual Machine (VM) with all the tools pre-installed.
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# Go to http://cloud.curoverse.com
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# Login with google account (you may need to click login a few times, our redirects are not working well)
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# Click in the upper right on your account name -> Manage Account
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# Hit the "Request shell access" button under Manage Account in workbench.
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h3. 2.2 Pipeline Template Example
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Here is what a simple pipeline template looks like, where the output of program A is provided as input to program B. We'll explain what it all means shortly, but first, don't worry -- you'll never be creating a pipeline template from scratch. You'll always copy and modify an existing boilerplate one (yes, a template for the pipeline template! :])
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    **pipelinetemplate.json**
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h2. 3. simple and sweet port-a-pipeline example
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Okay, let's dig into what's going on.
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h3. 3.1 the setup
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We'll port an artificially simple pipeline which involves just two short bash scripts, described as "A" and "B" below:
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**Script A. Create two files**
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Output: two files (out1.txt and out2.txt)
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**Script B. Merge two files into a single file**
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Output: a single file (output.txt)
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Visually, this looks like [!graph image] (ignore the long strings of gibberish in the rectangles for now).
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Here's what we've explained so far in the pipeline template:
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h3. **3.2 arv-what?**
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Before we go further, let's take a quick step back. Arvados consists of two parts
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**Part 1. Keep** - I have all your files in the cloud!
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You can access your files through your browser, using **Workbench**, or using the Arvados command line (CLI) tools (link: http://doc.arvados.org/sdk/cli/index.html ).
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Visually, this looks like
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**Part 2. Crunch** - I run all your scripts in the cloud!
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Crunch both dispatches jobs and provides version control for your pipelines.
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You describe your workflow to Crunch using **pipeline templates**. Pipeline templates describe a pipeline ("workflow"), the type of inputs each step in the pipeline requires, and . You provide a high-level description of how data flows through the pipeline—for example, the outputs of programs A and B are provided as input to program C—and let Crunch take care of the details of starting the individual programs at the right time with the inputs you specified.
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[!image 2: complex pipeline]
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Once you save a pipeline template in Arvados, you run it by creating a pipeline instance that lists the specific inputs you’d like to use. The pipeline’s final output(s) will be saved in a project you specify.
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Concretely, a pipeline template describes
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* **data inputs** - specified as Keep content addresses
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* **parameters** - which, along with the data inputs, can have default values or can be filled in later when the pipeline is actually run
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* **the execution environment** - stored in Docker images and referenced by Docker image name
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**What is Docker**? Docker allows Arvados to replicate the execution environment your tools need. You install whatever bioinformatics tools (bwa-mem, vcftools, etc.) you are using inside a Docker image, upload it to Arvados, and Arvados will recreate your environment for computers in the cloud.
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**Protip:** Install stable external tools in Docker. Put your own scripts in a Git repository. This is because each docker image is about 500 GB, so each new docker image takes a while to upload (30 minutes) if you are not using Arvados on a local cluster. In the future, we hope to use small diff files describing just the changes made to Docker image instead of the full Docker image. [Last updated 19 Feb 2015]
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h3. 3.3 In More Detail
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Alright, let's put that all together.
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Any output files as a result of this run-command will be automagically stored to keep as an auto-named collection (which you can think of as a folder for now).
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[2] Okay, so how does the next script know where to find the output of the previous job? run-command will keep track of the collections it's created, so we can feed that in as an argument to our next script. In this "command" section under "run-command", you can think of the commas as spaces. Thus, what this line is saying is "run mergefile.sh on the previous input", or
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[3] Here we set the variable "input" to point to the directory with the output of the previous command "Create Two Files".
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h3. 3.4 All hands on deck!
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Okay, now that we know the rough shape of what's going on, let's get our hands dirty.
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*From your local machine, login to Arvados virtual machine*
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Single step:
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  nrw@ *@nrw-local@* $ ssh nancy@lightning-dev4.shell.arvados
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(Lost? See "SSH access to machine with Arvados commandline tools installed" http://doc.arvados.org/user/getting_started/ssh-access-unix.html )
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*In VM, set up git repository with run_command and our scripts*
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(Lost? Find your own git URL by going to https://workbench.su92l.arvadosapi.com/manage_account )
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    ⤷Copy run_command & its dependencies into this crunch_scripts
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(Lost? Visit https://github.com/curoverse/arvados )
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⤷ *Explanations*
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*[1]* We use the @#!@ syntax to let bash know what to execute this file with
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<pre>$ chmod +x createtwofiles.sh mergefiles.sh # make these files executable</pre>
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**Make docker less sad about running out of space on the VM**
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*Commit Docker image*
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<pre>$ firefox http://su92l.arvadosapi.com</pre>
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[!image: workbench with 'tiny bash script']
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*Note: If no worker nodes are already provisioned, your job may take up to 10 minutes to queue up and start.* Behind-the-scenes, Arvados is requesting compute nodes for you and installing your Docker image and otherwise setting up the environment on those nodes. Then Arvados will be ready to run your job. Be patient -- the wait time may seem frustrating for a trivial pipeline like this, but Arvados really excels at handling long and complicated pipelines with built-in data provenance and pipeline reproducibility.
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Whew! Congratulations on porting your first pipeline to Arvados! Check out http://doc.arvados.org/user/topics/crunch-tools-overview.html to learn more about the different ways to port pipelines to Arvados and how to take full advantage of Arvados's features, like restarting pipelines from where they failed instead of from the beginning. 
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Other ways to avoid the read-only keep mount problem is to use task.vwd which uses symlinks from the output directory which is writable to the colelction in keep. If you can change your working directory to the output directory and do all your work there, you'll avoid the keep read only issue.  (lost? see http://doc.arvados.org/user/topics/run-command.html )
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"bash" "-c" could be your friend, it works sometimes, sometimes it doesnt. I don't have a good handle on why this works sometimes.
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if you're trying to iterate over >1 files using the task.foreach, its important to know that run-command uses a m x n method of making groups. I dont think I can explain it right now, but it may not be exactly what you want and you can trip over it. (lost? see http://doc.arvados.org/user/topics/run-command.html )
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When trying to pair up reads, its hard to use run-command. You have to manipulate basename and hope your file names are foo.1 foo.2. base name will treat the group as foo (because you'll regex the groups as foo) and you can glob for foo.1 and foo.2. but if the file names are foo_1 and foo_2, you cant regex search them for foo becuase you'll get both names into a group and you'll be iterating through both of them twice, because of m x n. 
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Your scripts need to point to the right place where the file is. Its currently hard to figure out how to grep the file names, you have to do some magic through the collection api.
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h2. 5. Learn More
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To learn more, head over to the Arvados User Guide documentation online: http://doc.arvados.org/user/