Jupyter Notebooks in the Cloud

[korikuzma]

Allow users to run the jupyter notebooks without having to clone the repo and install SeqRepo + UTA. @ahwagner suggests using Binder. This will allow users to easily play around with vrs-python's functionality.

Prerequisites:

• Deploy SeqRepo Rest API
  - [ ] Deploy UTA using AWS RDS instance
  - We will create a public anonymous user

[korikuzma]

Update for SeqRepo Rest API:
- Public API
- GitHub Repo

[reece]

Is there a reason you don't want to use the default RDS public instance? It's plenty fast and Invitae's paying for it!

[korikuzma]

@reece mybinder only allows these ports outbound

[ahwagner]

My understanding of what we are trying to do re: UTA is to build an API that can retrieve data from a UTA instance over HTTP(S), as direct connections over the postgresql default port are commonly firewalled (true here at NCH, as well as at mybinder.org as @korikuzma pointed out).

I think the intention here is to create such an API hosted by NCH, which points to an internal RDS instance (currently necessary due to NCH firewall restrictions). I agree it would be great if we could leverage the Invitae RDS for this purpose, especially once issues around versioned Ensembl transcripts and update frequency are addressed.