Discovery Environment Login and Setup¶
Description:
In this section we will create a folder in the Discovery Environment (DE) and begin organizing a space for our experimental data and analysis results on the Data Store.
CyVerse Account Setup¶
- Obtain a CyVerse account at CyVerse User Portal. Register with an institutional email address (e.g., .edu or .org) if possible. If you previously have had a CyVerse account, you can also recover or reset your password on this site. After signup, you will need to verify your email address in order to activate your account.
Discovery Environment Login and Data Sharing Setup¶
- Log in to the Discovery Environment.
- Click on Data to browse your collection of files and navigate to your home folder (i.e., top folder labeled with your CyVerse username).
- Click the Folder button to create a new folder for this project (suggested name: rna-seq-tutorial).
Note
You should avoid using spaces or special characters (e.g., !@#$%^&) in any folder or file names.
4. Once you have created this folder, you may want to share it with collaborators. To do so, select (checkbox) the rna-seq-tutorial folder in your Data view. Then, click the Share button.
5. (Optional) You can then enter the names (i.e., name, username, email address) of collaborators you wish to share data with. These collaborators must also have a CyVerse account. Once you have found collaborators to share with, you must select the level of access you wish to grant.
Tip
See more on Data sharing in thr Data Store Guide.
More on the Discovery Environment¶
Layout of the Discovery Environment
The Discovery Environment is a web-based graphical user interface that allows CyVerse users to manage, share, and annotate data, launch analysis jobs using applications, and log the status and history of analyses.
In this expanded view the left sidebar menu:
- (A) shows several icons: Home presents the default view at login
with access to recently used and favorite applications;
- Data shows a view of the CyVerse Data Store including publicly available (community) data; when logged in you will view your uploaded and shared files and folders. You will also access menu-based data management tools (e.g., upload, folder and file creation, file previews, sharing, search and metadata) in this view.
- Apps provides view of the application catalogue, as well as tools for modifying and creating new applications and workflows.
- Analyses provides view of job history, and the status of submitted and running jobs. Job management features include the ability to cancel or relaunch jobs and view detailed job parameters.
- Cloud Shell provides a limited Linux-based shell interface.
- Teams allows you to select and manage user groups.
- Collections allows you to select and manage groupings of applications and resources.
- Settings allows you to see and change default setting for the platform.
- Help allows you access to help resources.
- The Search bar (B) allows you to search across data, applications, and analyses.
- Additional functions (C) include login and account information, notifications, help, and collections.
Learn more in the Discovery Environment Guide.