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Thank you for your feedback!
The Terra team gives thanks to the thousands of researchers who use the platform and have helped make it better by providing feedback, suggestions and encouragements.


Five online courses to master Terra
Learn to get the most out of Terra with these free online courses offered through the Leanpub learning platform.


Ten simple rules — #6 Version both software and data
Bringing workflows under version control to make large-scale data processing reproducible; inspired by “Ten simple rules for large-scale data processing” (Fungtammasan 2022).


Paper Spotlight: Germline predisposition to pediatric Ewing sarcoma
This pediatric oncology study used Terra to identify germline variants contributing to Ewing sarcoma pathogenesis in 1,147 individuals with pediatric sarcoma diagnoses.


Scaling variant discovery to a million genomes with the Genomic Variant Store
Join the early access program to try out the Broad Institute’s new Genomic Variant Store, a highly scalable variant storage and processing solution powered by Google BigQuery on Terra.


Run your notebooks programmatically in the cloud
Verily software engineers share tips and resources for running Jupyter notebooks programmatically without writing any code.
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Get started with free cloud credits
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


Why the new and improved WDL docs deserve a second look
Have you ever found yourself (desperately?) searching for WDL (Workflow Description Language) documentation that suits your needs and coming up short? I have. I was in that boat a year


Discover How AnVIL Empowers Compliance with NIH DMS Policy – Join Our Webinar!
Summary: In the rapidly evolving landscape of scientific research, data sharing has emerged as a key driver of innovation and collaboration. Recognizing this, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) unveiled