Create a project

Before you can start analyzing your data, you need to create a project. There are two types of projects on the Platform, Open and Controlled Data Projects.

Controlled Data Projects protect Controlled Data by restricting access to users with dbGaP access permissions to Controlled Data.

To create a project:

  1. Click the Projects tab on the top navigation bar and select Create a project from the drop-down menu.
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Create a project

  1. Name your project. Your project will be assigned a short name based on the name that you give it, which is used as an ID to refer to the project when using the API.
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  1. Choose whether you want spot/preemptible instances to be used for your project or not. Learn more
  2. Select whether to enable memoization.
  3. Choose the location for all executions in your project. This setting can't be changed. Learn more.
  4. If you have access to Controlled Data, the checkbox This project will contain Controlled Data will be automatically checked. Deselect the checkbox if you'd like to create an Open Data Project.
  5. Set your Billing Group.
  6. Click Create to finish.