How to run an App on Brainlife

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Once your App is registered on Brainlife, the next step is to run it on Brainlife. As specified in How to register an App on Brainlife, at first the App is private (i.e. linked to a private project, only members of this project can view and execute this App).

The steps to run an App are presented more precisely in Brainlife documentation: data processing and processes.

There are two ways to run an App depending on if you run only one App or if you run small pipelines (e.g. a series of Apps):

1. If you want to run only one App:

   1. go directly to the App and then execute it by clicking on “Execute”

      

   2. BL creates a new process in the selected project, stages all of the input files you selected, and submits your App in a single step

2. If you want to run a small pipeline:

   1. go to the page of the project linked to the App and then go the tab “Processes”

      

      A Process is where you can submit a group of Apps that can share input/output datasets.

   2. create a new process

   3. stage any dataset from our archive to your process (each process can only process data that is either staged or generated by other Apps)

   4. select the App you want to run

   5. click submit