One of the challenges we face in human genomic research is that there is a lot of data that we can’t freely share with one another, for legal and ethical reasons. This can be particularly vexing for tool developers who need data for testing, and for educators who need to provide […]
Today is the second day of the 8th plenary meeting of GA4GH, aka the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, an international collaborative effort that has been driving the development of standards for infrastructure, policy, and security in the genomics field for nearly a decade. […]
What do the Teen Titans and a German docu-series called Terra X have in common? That’s right, they’re the top hits you get on Google when you search for “Terra intro videos YouTube”. So, you might have already searched for Terra videos and come up empty; or you might have used […]
As we have discussed previously, our collaborators in the Sabeti Lab at the Broad Institute have been analyzing SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes from COVID-19 cases in the Boston area, in partnership with the MA Department of Public Health and Massachusetts General Hospital. From the beginning of this work, they have shared their […]
I remember when I originally started hearing about Docker containers; I didn’t really understand what they were and anything I googled on the topic seemed awfully complicated. And I’ll admit, getting used to working with cloud storage was rough too. What do you mean it’s not a filesystem? What’s object storage? […]
See what researchers working in Terra have to say
Terra is developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily.
