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2025 Aug 27 - ICA v2.38.0

• New Functionality

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• Updated Functionality

  • The legacy run report management tab "analysis report" present in graphical CWL pipelines/analyses details has been removed in favour of the recently introduced "report" tab.

  • Added how to parse JSON into tables for Base.

  • Connector card color descriptions have been updated.

  • Documented inputForm.json file 10 MB size limit and 200 fields limit. You can no longer use the parameter 'emptyValuesAllowed' with the field type "fieldgroup" on a JSON-based input form

  • General update to base tables documentation.

  • Metadata models section has been updated in accordance with user interface update.

  • Replaced API key generation instructions with links to the relevant documents.

• General Documentation updates

  • Added explanation of how to move data out of externally-managed projects.

  • Added information on S3 bucket protection against public access.

  • Added information that some catalogue tables will not contain data when using your own S3 storage.

  • General improvements to S3 documentation for better indexing.

  • Improved data linking documentation.

  • Update on accessing Nextflow XML Metadata for Dragen 4.3+

  • Updated the usage of the term workflow to be more consistent.

  • Added information on how to unblock deleting notification subscriptions when there are undelivered notifications.

2025 July 29 - ICA v2.37.0

This release (2.37.0) contains major changes to how workspaces operate.

By default, existing workspaces will have a 7 day automatic shutdown, so once started, they will shut down after 7 days to help save costs. If you need to keep your workspaces running longer than 7 days, change the automatic shutdown of your workspace to a longer period. You can still manually stop your workspace when you are not using it.

Currently running workspaces will shut down after 7 days after the upgrade to 2.37.0

Workspaces will restart every 30 days for security reasons, regardless of the automatic shutdown setting.

• New Functionality

  • Documented that you can now specify if rare resources (F1, F2 and GPU) must be available on your pipeline.

  • Documented the new automatic bench shutdown feature. Default shutdown after 7 days, reboot after 30 days.

• Updated Functionality

  • Added information on how to upload multiple files with the Command-line interface as wildcards are not supported.

  • Documented that unknown file types are considered to be binary to prevent them being displayed as text.

  • Documented how to create a nested folder structure when creating an analysis.

  • Removed the Anonymize via Schedule functionality documentation as the feature has been removed from the application.

  • Improved descriptions of data filtering for JSON-based input forms

  • Updated sample detail screen to the latest version

• General Documentation updates

  • Updated Nextflow version support lifecycle

  • Added information to contact your Intrusion Detection System vendor when actions performed by ICA trigger warnings.

  • Documented the Project email invite statuses

2025 June 2 - ICA v2.36.0

¹ DRAGEN pipelines running on fpga2 compute type will incur a DRAGEN license cost of 0.10 iCredits per gigabase of data processed, with additional discounts as shown below.

• 80 or less gigabase per sample - no discount - 0.10 iCredits per gigabase

• > 80 to 160 gigabase per sample - 20% discount - 0.08 iCredits per gigabase

• > 160 to 240 gigabase per sample - 30% discount - 0.07 iCredits per gigabase

• > 240 to 320 gigabase per sample - 40% discount - 0.06 iCredits per gigabase

• > 320 and more gigabase per sample - 50% discount - 0.05 iCredits per gigabase

If your DRAGEN job fails, only the compute cost is charged, no DRAGEN license cost will be charged.

DRAGEN Iterative gVCF Genotyper (iGG) will incur a license cost of 0.6216 iCredits per gigabase. For example, a sample of 3.3 gigabase human reference will result in 2 iCredits per sample. The associated Compute costs will be based on the compute instance chosen.

• New Functionality

  • Added information on pipeline pricing when running DRAGEN on FPGA2 which now offers discounts.

  • Documented the dropValueWhenDisabled flag for JSON input forms.

  • Added information on how to create the output folder when starting an analysis.

  • Documented how to share credentials with another user

  • Documented that a price is now also shown when the analysis is aborted

  • Added .yml to format documentation

• Updated Functionality

  • Various updates to the tools chapter

  • Raised analysis report limit from 20 to 200

  • Documented that owners of notification subscriptions are now able to delete those notification subscriptions

• General Documentation updates

  • Changed himem-xlarge from 96 cores to 92 and from 768 GiB to 700 GiB to factor in overhead.

  • Improved documentation on ETags

  • Documented that external URL field is mandatory

  • Pipeline page documentation has been improved

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2025 May 8 - ICA v2.35.0 - DRAGEN 4.4 Update

¹ DRAGEN pipelines running on fpga2 compute type will incur a DRAGEN license cost of 0.10 iCredits per gigabase of data processed, with additional discounts as shown below.

• 80 or less gigabase per sample - no discount - 0.10 iCredits per gigabase

• > 80 to 160 gigabase per sample - 20% discount - 0.08 iCredits per gigabase

• > 160 to 240 gigabase per sample - 30% discount - 0.07 iCredits per gigabase

• > 240 to 320 gigabase per sample - 40% discount - 0.06 iCredits per gigabase

• > 320 and more gigabase per sample - 50% discount - 0.05 iCredits per gigabase

If your DRAGEN job fails, only the compute cost is charged, no DRAGEN license cost will be charged.

DRAGEN Iterative gVCF Genotyper (iGG) will incur a license cost of 0.6216 iCredits per gigabase. For example, a sample of 3.3 gigabase human reference will result in 2 iCredits per sample. The associated Compute costs will be based on the compute instance chosen.

2025 May 5 - ICA v2.35.0

Navigational change. The Projects navigation item moved from the left-side navigation to the top of the Project details. \

• New Functionality

  • Reports now have an option to define patterns for detecting report files in the analysis output. On opening an analysis result window of this pipeline, an additional tab will display these report files.

  • Added information on sorting and filtering behavior when sharing links. These are now retained when sharing or navigating away from an inventory.

• Updated Functionality

  • Documented navigation changes.

    • The navigation menu is now collapsible

    • The Product overview selection menu moved from top left to top right

    • The back button has been replaced by a breadcrumb menu

    • The Projects overview moved from top left to top center-left

  • Updates to cohorts documentation

  • Added information on /api/projects/{projectId}/analysis:nextflowWithCustomInput

  • Improvements to chapter pipeline development in bench.

• General Documentation updates

  • Replaced directory with folder where possible for consistency

  • Added information that cloned pipelines and externally linked pipelines can coexist in a project even if they have the same name.

  • Improved CLI section on version numbers for better reading flow

  • Added information that you can only link bundles to a project if that project belongs to a tenant who has access to the bundle

  • Added that when changing project owner, the project owner will automatically get all necessary permissions.

  • Added prerequisite that both the CLI and the service connector require x86 architecture or emulation.

  • Improved information on Pipeline linking

2025 March 26 - ICA v2.34.0

• New Functionality

  • New documentation on Pipeline Development in Bench has been added. (Experimental Feature)

  • Added documentation on non-indexed folders to the data section

  • Added /api/projects/{projectId}/analyses/{analysisId}/usage as API endpoint for analysis price on the pricing page

  • Documented the single-user option of workspaces

• Updated Functionality

  • Documented the move of storage credentials from System Settings > Storage > Credentials to System Settings > Credentials.

  • Updated that project owner editing is now done at Projects > your_project > Project Settings > Details > Edit

  • Added ICA_DATA_105 to notifications

  • Updates to data transfer screen section

  • Documented that DRAGEN pipelines (> 4.3.13) are no longer cloneable as they contain proprietary information

  • Documented version updates with Added support of Nextflow version 24.10.2 (Experimental) and removal of support for Java version 8

  • Updated scheduler descriptions

• General Documentation Updates

  • Improved description of roles in bundles

  • Added information that you can only link bundles to a project if that project belongs to a tenant who has access to the bundle.

  • Added warning to not add tables with the same name to the same bundle as this will create conflicts

  • Added information that exporting float values from base will result in different formats between JSON and CSV formats

  • Clarified that uploaded files are in status partial until upload is complete, when they become available

  • Documented that metadata is no longer searchable in the project search panel

  • Various updates to Bench documentation

  • Added TX- Ramp certification to security and compliance

  • Added background information on tags

2025 February 26 - ICA v2.33.0

• General

  • Added experimental feature: Streamable inputs for JSON-based input forms. Adding "streamable":true to an input field of type "data" makes it a streamable input.

  • Documented version updates with removal of support for Java version 8 and added note on decommissioning of Nextflow 20.10.0 in the near future

  • Removed section on showing current workspace user as the functionality has been removed

  • Added information to notifications to incorporate a failsafe mechanism by polling long-running analysis states when integrating with external software

  • Added known issue: The event for analysis status changes with event code ICA_EXEC_028 is generated but not shown in the event log for ICA Projects with billing mode tenant. Notifications for this event will keep working

• Flow

  • Added information how to see the price of an Analysis at Projects > your_project > Flow > Analyses > your_analysis > Details tab. See pricing information for details.

  • Documented that aborting an analysis is now also possible from the details screen

  • Updated Dragen Analysis walkthrough example to be in sync with latest software version.

  • Update OAuth access token lifespan from 2 to 12 hours in project details

  • Documented that it is now possible to navigate from analysis results to the data of that analysis

• CLI

  • Added links to CLI version 2.33

• Data management

  • Documented updates to legal screen and tenant invite of bundles.

• Storage

  • Extended documentation on Activity - Data transfers screen

  • Added emphasis on not using the root folder of your own S3 storage.

2025 January 29 - ICA v2.32.0

• General

  • Extended documentation on Activity - Data transfers screen

  • Verified and updated the project navigation structure in the online help

• Flow

  • Documented the "display failed steps" option of failed analyses

  • Documented the ongoing actions column from the column list in the data view which allows to see if there are any ongoing actions on data

  • Documented the additional actions which are now possible with externally-managed projects

  • Updated the list of formats

  • Added information on bundle sharing functionality which offers more protection for sensitive information than using the ICA teams page to invite other users to use your assets

  • Update to JSON-form emptyValuesAllowed parameter description. When maxValues is greater than 1 or and emptyValuesAllowed is true, the values may contain null entries. Default is false

  • Added information that FPGA-large is only available in region US-east-1 and both FPGA-large and himem-X-large have limited availability

  • Documented GPU-small and GPU-medium resource types for compute

• CLI

  • Improved documentation for Nextflow JSON project pipelines start nextflowjson example

• Bench

  • Added GPU-large to bench workspace sizes

  • Added information on downloading Docker images

  • Added information to indicate there is no need to download the workspace command-line interface as you can run it from within the workspace

• Cohorts

  • Updates to Spinner and Needle Plots information