The Broad Institute’s Data Sciences Platform is sponsoring this year’s Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC 2021), taking place virtually July 29-30. Abstracts are due Thursday, May 6, 2021 (late posters June 3). BOSC is a great way to get involved in the bioinformatics community; we’re proud to support this event and we hope to see many of you there virtually.
Many workflows generate intermediate files that you won’t ever use again once the pipeline has run to completion. You can reduce your data footprint — and your storage costs! — by getting Terra to delete them for you.
On the cloud, the rate you pay for computing resources is based on the technical specifications of the virtual machines you use. Our pipeline engineering team offers some tips for cutting costs by adjusting workflow resource allocations dynamically.
The GATK team recently released a major update, version 4.2. This blog covers a recap of GATK’s history in Terra as well as a roundup of relevant resources.
A list of Terra highlights from this past year, focusing specifically on new options and capabilities for interactive analysis and workflow execution that you would interact within the user interface.
We teamed up with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network consortium to put together a hands-on workshop focused on helping researchers get started with key resources including the Neuroscience Multi-Omic Archive, Single Cell Portal, and Terra.
If you’re a PI switching from using institutional computing resources that are normally paid out of grant overhead, and until your institution lets you reallocate that money to cover cloud costs, you’re going to need to find new funding. The good news is that there are some funding sources out there dedicated to bridging that gap […]
Although Terra itself is free and open to all, you do have to pay for any actual work that you request from the underlying cloud service provider, which is currently Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (we’re working with Microsoft to add support for Azure). The good news is that you can get free credits to try out GCP and Terra, and see if this all works for you, without paying anything out of pocket.
There’s a common misconception that the cloud is not secure enough for working with sensitive data like human genome sequence and medical records. I say misconception because, uh, yeah it is secure enough — or rather, it can be if it’s done right […]
Last week I gave you a tour of the RStudio integration that we’re building into Terra in the context of the AnVIL project, in collaboration with the Bioconductor team. This week I want to introduce you to the Galaxy integration, another great collaboration forged on the AnVIL that involves members of the core Galaxy team. […]
Terra is developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily.
