Dear research user,
Please be advised that scheduled maintenance will take place from 10.00 (BST) – 17.00 (BST) on Wednesday, 15 July 2026.
During this maintenance window, some services may be temporarily unavailable or experience intermittent disruption.
VDI – This will remain accessible, but access to network data will be inaccessible during the maintenance window. Applications that do not rely on this data will still be available (CloudOS).
The Double Helix HPC will not be available during this time.
Logins will not be possible during this time and running interactive jobs will be affected, any jobs that are still running at the start of the maintenance window will be terminated and will need to be rerun. This will include any orchestration jobs you may have running for your workflows.
In preparation please:
* save any ongoing work
* terminate (using the bkill command) any interactive jobs that are running
* logout from your session prior to the maintenance window
You may login and resubmit your jobs from Thursday, 16 July 2026.
Bigmem and Long queues will be closed or drained from 17:00 today. The Medium and Short queues will be closed Monday, 13 July from 10:00.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Best Wishes,
Genomics England
Posted on
Jul 08, 2026 - 15:24 BST
Update -
We will be undergoing scheduled maintenance during this time.
Jul 09, 2026 - 12:06 BST
Scheduled -
Dear Congenica User,
This is a reminder that GEL will be deleting cases from Congenica on a regular basis. The cases that will be marked for deletion will be the ones that have been closed for 2 weeks in the Interpretation Portal, this is regardless of the amount of time that it has been in Congenica. Closed is defined as the report/summary of findings and exit questionnaire being completed by the user.
The next set of deletions will take place on the Thursday, 23 July 2026.
If you wish to keep a case in Congenica, we advise that you inform the Genomics England Service Desk at least 3 days in advance of the 2 week mark for your case.
Jul 09, 2026 - 12:05 BST