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Stars
2
Forks
7
Open beginner issues
1
Indexed issues
99
Avg merge
6d 16m
Merged PRs (30d)
8
Dominant language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push
Sep 25, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

How to contribute to mskcc/beagle

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. It ships a Dockerfile or Docker Compose file, so you can run it without installing its whole toolchain.
  3. Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
  4. Pick the open beginner-friendly issue below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Remove all harded references to juno
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

    mskcc/beagle#1500 ·

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  • How will strict syntax affect repo
    May be free again @buehlere claimed this 225 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    mskcc/beagle#1493 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Update mock metadata
    May be free again @nikhil claimed this 1452 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    mskcc/beagle#1125 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Cannot logout of admin on swagger page
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#1122 ·

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  • tempo-mpgen column names inconsistent with schema
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mskcc/beagle#1068 · 1 comment ·

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  • Operator errors are hidden in the logs
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#1058 ·

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  • Approved users does not populate the user model
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#1053 ·

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  • Cannot log out as admin
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#1052 ·

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  • Replace User Specific Paths on Jinja Template
    May be free again @buehlere claimed this 1617 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    mskcc/beagle#1034 · 1 assignee ·

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  • Github Repo page for Tempo
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#1030 ·

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  • Need to updated paths
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mskcc/beagle#1028 · 1 comment ·

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  • checking if historical pairing file was de-synced
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mskcc/beagle#996 ·

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  • Check isCmoRequest flag on import
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#987 ·

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  • Jobs restarted through the retry endpoint start with resume_attempts 0
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#984 ·

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  • Job restart failed to submit if job_store is cleaned up
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    mskcc/beagle#963 ·

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  • Notifier search does not search on status
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mskcc/beagle#939 ·

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  • Modified_date should have db_index=true
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#929 ·

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  • Queries on created_date do not work
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 15/100

    mskcc/beagle#928 ·

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  • Add migration to backfill jira ids to jobgroups
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#927 ·

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  • Need to backfill deliveryDate metadata on empty fields
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    mskcc/beagle#926 ·

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  • Many of the jobgroup jira_id fields are empy
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mskcc/beagle#925 ·

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  • Handle JIRA status when 0 samples are imported
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#924 ·

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  • Number of runs that complete differs from the number of runs that succeeded in OperatorRun
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#920 ·

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  • Some pooled normal fastq files show up twice in the mapping file
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mskcc/beagle#917 ·

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  • Elastic apm configuration parameters should be set through env
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

    mskcc/beagle#915 ·

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  • Assign study id(s) to sample metadata, IMPACT/HemePACT data sets mostly
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#891 ·

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  • Refactor runner/tasks to work with abstract RunObjects in order to support Nextflow
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mskcc/beagle#888 ·

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  • [MetaDB] Separate NATS job into different queue
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mskcc/beagle#887 ·

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  • [MetaDB] - Change deploy script to start NATS listening job
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#886 ·

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  • Update helix filters operator output directory
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#885 ·

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  • Argos operator - need to fix pairing with pooled normals through /v0/run/operator/pairs
    Open
    bug

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#884 ·

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  • Missing conflict reasons
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    mskcc/beagle#880 ·

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  • filter_redact=True behavior inconsistent; what is expected behavior
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

    mskcc/beagle#877 ·

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  • Restarting jobs with updates to inputs
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    mskcc/beagle#875 ·

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  • Standardize logging for Celery tasks
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#863 ·

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  • Hiseq Rapid Run and Hiseq High Output conflict
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#854 · 4 comments ·

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  • For ETL, assign dirs, subdirs, and files being moved to CMO storage space to group cmoigo
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#846 ·

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  • Add PipelineType
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#843 ·

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  • Pipeline Completed before all runs are completed
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#833 ·

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  • Fix started time for runs
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    mskcc/beagle#826 · 1 comment ·

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  • Job notification when an operator receives bad inputs errors out
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

    mskcc/beagle#821 ·

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  • Deployment strategy for Voyager
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    mskcc/beagle#820 · 1 comment ·

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  • Updated metadata JSON from beagle_etl sometimes don't output all json files into directory
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#806 ·

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  • Use Batch call to get Status of Job from Ridgeback
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    mskcc/beagle#803 ·

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  • Put work dir, lsf.log, input.json paths in Jira comments
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#801 · 1 comment ·

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  • Regex query does not seem to be working
    May be free again @nikhil claimed this 2012 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    mskcc/beagle#786 · 1 assignee ·

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  • parallelize access operators
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    mskcc/beagle#785 ·

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  • Index table and endpoint for autocomplete
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#777 ·

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  • Value queries on the same field should be treated as OR queries
    May be free again @utkarsh-stark claimed this 2017 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    mskcc/beagle#775 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

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  • Configure LSF walltime per Run
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    mskcc/beagle#742 ·

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