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The WGS FAQ actually is clear about this, but it contradicts the PDF that you linked: https://dnanexus.gitbook.io/uk-biobank-rap/500k-wgs-faq

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• 30 November 2023 15:52
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In that case, perhaps that document can be clarified, because that document currently states that you can select the data after the project has been created:

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• 30 November 2023 15:47
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The data refresh section for my application indicates that requesting the WGS data is not currently possible. Can you please clarify how we may request access within pre-existing projects? 

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• 30 November 2023 15:43
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How to skip downloading files that already exist with dx download?

dx download has an option (-f) where you can enforce that pre-existing files should be overwritten by the remote file. But what if we don't want that - instead, we want to skip pre-existing files? ...

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How can we set a retry policy on dx run jobs?

This document in the handbook for the UK Biobank RAP states, "If you decide not to use a retry policy, occasionally, some jobs may fail due to sample-specific issues or due to external factors suc...

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• 16 October 2023 00:00
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How can we execute modified applets without creating duplicated data?

From what I can tell from experiments, there is no way to tell applets to overwrite output files or to respect the output from previous applet versions. While this isn't a problem thanks to caching...

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• 21 June 2023 00:00
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I'm trying to use "dx upload filename --destination "project/path" from my university network but I'm getting errors like: urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', TimeoutError('The write operation timed out')) Is there an outage?

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• 20 April 2023 00:00
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Fantastic, thanks for the clear response and the pointer to how we might solve it.

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• 07 April 2023 20:06
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How to use more than 100 machines simultaneously

Cloud computing has many downsides, but one of its upsides is (usually) simultaneous access to large numbers of machines on demand. However, with DNANexus, I have not been able to access more than ...

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• 07 April 2023 00:00
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