Cirro
Overview
Cirro by Fred Hutch | Brotman Baty simplifies access to cutting-edge cloud technologies and addresses common research challenges when working with large-scale 'omics datasets — from data ingestion, management, and analysis, to ad hoc exploration, visualization, and publication.
Key Features
Cirro is organized into overarching projects within which billing and security access are controlled. Each project contains datasets, which are groups of files that may be viewed and downloaded by other members of a project team.
These datasets can be run through analysis pipelines with reference and sample data that you upload in order to produce new datasets. Datasets can also be examined either through plots that live in dashboards or with ad-hoc analysis in notebooks.
Cirro also has a command line and Python interface that allows for easy access to your datasets.
Portal Structure
To explore different aspects of Cirro, use the navigation bar on the left and see the links below:
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Top Level Pages:
- View all projects to which you have been added as a user
- View all of your billing accounts
- An overview of the selected project
- The table of available datasets inside your project
- The table of samples that are associated with your project
- A table of workspaces for jupyter notebooks that can be run on your project
- A list of dashboards containing plots for the dataset
- The set of pipelines and references that are available for your project
- A table of users and their permissions for the project
- Information and charts explaining the costs incurred by the project
Project Specific Pages:
Signing Up
If you are a member of Fred Hutch Cancer Center or the University of Washington, you can simply click the button for your organization in the pop-up window and enter your organization's login credentials. You will get a welcome email with more information after signing in for the first time.
If you are an affiliate member who has not signed in before, you will need to reach out to an existing user with administrative permissions (e.g. the owner of the project you need access to) or contact the Cirro team to request access. Once you've been added as a user, you will receive an email with instructions on how to sign in with a temporary password and then reset that password on your first login.
If you are an administrator looking to add new users, you can read about how to do that in the Users section of the documentation.
Signing In
Open https://cirro.bio/ in your browser of choice.
Click "Sign In" to access the login screen. If you are a member of Fred Hutch Cancer Center or the University of Washington, click the button for your organization in the pop-up window and enter your organization's login credentials if prompted.
If you are not a member of those institutions, you can log in with your email and the password you set when signing up.
Entering Cirro
Once you have signed in, click the "My Projects" button to start accessing Cirro's many features.
