Release notes

AWS i3 instances available on all environments

With this update you can use the newest Amazon EC2 I3 instances designed for data-intensive, high transaction, low latency workloads, offering the best price per I/O performance (I3) and the lowest price per GB of SSD instance storage on Amazon EC2 (I3en).

The following instances have been added:

• i3.large

• i3.xlarge

• i3.2xlarge

• i3.4xlarge

• i3.8xlarge

• i3.16xlarge

• i3en.large

• i3en.xlarge

• i3en.2xlarge

• i3en.3xlarge

• i3en.6xlarge

• i3en.12xlarge

• i3en.24xlarge

Learn more about supported AWS instance types.

Recently published apps

We have published GATK RNAseq short variant discovery 4.2.0.0 workflow, which represents a CWL implementation of the official GATK best practices workflow given in WDL for RNASeq variant discovery. Starting from an unmapped BAM file, the workflow performs alignment to the reference genome, followed by marking of duplicates, reassigning of mapping qualities, base recalibration, variant calling, and variant filtering.