Whole Tale
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The facts
Each one read from Whole Tale's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Collaboration
- Users can share Tales with other Whole Tale users using read or edit permissions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Compute limit
- The STATA tutorial states that each Tale instance is limited by default to 2 CPUs and 8GB RAM.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data integrations
- The documentation lists Zenodo, Dataverse, Globus, DataONE, and DERIVA as supported external data sources, with DERIVA support described as being tested.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The project describes the platform as a building block intended to be deployable in a variety of environments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Eligibility
- The hosted operational version on Jetstream2 is for academic use and limited to fair and reasonable use.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Environment customization
- Users can customize environments with packages using repo2docker-compatible configuration files.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Environments
- Supported interactive environments include JupyterLab, RStudio, MATLAB, and STATA.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Full-stack runtime
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Interactive environments
- Supported environments include JupyterLab, RStudio, MATLAB, and STATA.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Licensed software
- The terms say MATLAB use is academic-only, is not guaranteed in perpetuity, and does not permit proprietary, closed, or for-profit use.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Whole Tale is an open-source, web-based platform for creating, publishing, and running reproducible research objects called Tales.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Real-time collaboration
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
- Recorded runs
- Recorded runs execute a specified workflow in an isolated container and capture an immutable copy of outputs plus runtime information such as memory and CPU usage.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Repository publishing
- The platform supports publishing Tales to external research repositories and assigning persistent identifiers through the repository.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Repository workflows
- Whole Tale supports repository data registration, Analyze in Whole Tale launches, and publishing Tale packages to repositories.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Reproducibility
- The platform captures code, data, workflow information, and the computational environment to support review and reproduction of research results.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Reproduction
- Users can interactively create and edit Tales, then rerun them to reproduce and verify results.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The documentation says Whole Tale uses Globus Auth for authentication and access to data on users’ behalf through the Globus network.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security and access
- The architecture documentation says identity and access management use OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect and that the production service uses Globus Auth for federated login.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Sharing controls
- access_controlchecked 22 Sep 2026
- Sign-in
- Users can browse public Tales without signing in; account sign-in supports institutional credentials, ORCID, or Google through Globus Auth.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project invites users to join its Slack workspace or email list to ask questions and participate in community discussion.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support and community
- The project directs users to its Slack workspace and email list for questions and community discussion.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2016checked 19 Oct 2026
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