Studios

Seqera Studios is a reproducible, containerized interactive analysis environment platform designed for bioinformatics teams and life sciences researchers who need to streamline end-to-end data workflows. By bringing secure, on-demand analytical environments directly to data within a team's own cloud infrastructure, Studios eliminates the friction of traditional HPC-based tooling and enables faster, more collaborative science.

Studios supports a range of interactive environments including VS Code, R-IDE, Jupyter, and Xpra, and is built to run entirely within an organization's own AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform environment. This ensures data never leaves the user's cloud, maintaining security and compliance while providing virtually unlimited compute and storage scalability. Users at institutions such as the Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core have reported 3x more tools explored, 50% faster analysis turnaround, 4x quicker pipeline development, and 3x reduced time to get started on new analysis and data types.

Core Capabilities

• On-demand custom environments: Dynamically build interactive analysis environments tailored to specific project needs, choosing from VS Code, R-IDE, Jupyter, or Xpra.
• Preloaded environments: Leverage version-controlled container images preloaded with popular libraries to ensure consistent and reproducible analyses every time.
• Reproducible checkpointing: Enable fault tolerance, portability, and cost efficiency through built-in checkpointing that preserves analysis state across sessions.
• Reproducibility by design: Every analysis environment is fully reproducible and secure using Wave's container augmentation capabilities, with sessions running inside isolated, containerized environments built automatically with all required libraries and tools.

Security and Data Access

• Built-in security: Notebooks are automatically secured with built-in authentication and credential management, ensuring data never leaves the user's cloud environment.
• Seamless data access: Access data in public or private cloud buckets through the built-in Data Explorer, eliminating data transfer bottlenecks.
• One-click cloud storage: Instantly access datasets stored in AWS S3, Azure Blob, or Google Cloud Storage with a single click, making data immediately available within the environment.

Collaboration and Pipeline Development

• Real-time collaboration: Multiple users can connect to and work within the same interactive session simultaneously, enabling seamless sharing of analyses and results.
• Instant sharing: Quickly create and share interactive analyses and reports across an organization via secure, shareable URL links.
• Pipeline development: Debug and develop pipelines directly within the same environment where they are run, with direct access to pipeline outputs and working directories, including support for on-demand GPU instances.

Studios integrates directly with Seqera's broader platform and cloud infrastructure, supporting deployment across AWS, Azure, and GCP. It is purpose-built for teams that require scalable, secure, and reproducible analytical workflows without the overhead of managing complex HPC environments or one-size-fits-all notebook solutions.