Labs Workbench

The growing size and complexity of high-value scientific datasets are pushing the boundaries of traditional models of data access and discovery. Many large datasets are only accessible through the systems on which they were created or require specialized software or computational resources.

Labs Workbench is a scalable, web-based platform intended to support turn-key deployment of encapsulated data management and analysis tools to support exploratory analysis and development near research datasets.

Terminology

The following collections are stored in MongoDB:

  • AppSpec: Contains all the information needed to create a new UserApp

  • UserApp: A launchable instance of an AppSpec that is owned by a particular user