Celebrating the Terra Frontline Support team
Geraldine Van der Auwera
November 23, 2021
As we head into the holiday week, we give thanks to one of the Terra teams whose role is as essential as it is often unsung: Frontline Support.
As we head into the holiday week, we give thanks to one of the Terra teams whose role is as essential as it is often unsung: Frontline Support.
An overview of data and analysis resources provided by the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) via the Neuroscience Multi-omic Archive (NeMO) and Terra
Dr. Martin Morgan gives us an overview of the R / Bioconductor AnVIL package and shows how his group’s work empowers researchers to work more easily on the cloud.
The Broad Institute announced a new partnership with the CDC and Theiagen Genomics that will help public health labs adopt Terra for pathogen genomics and biosurveillance.
Terra workspaces offer a great way to package your work and share it with others as a sort of interactive methods supplement that has the potential to significantly increase the computational reproducibility of your publications.
This blog shares highlights and key takeaways from the Birds of a Feather session at BOSC 2021. The discussion topic theme was computational reproducibility of published papers – which drew a great group of BOSC participants and led to some lively discussion, in the hope that some of the ideas we exchanged would live on beyond the close of the conference.
Got any ideas for improving Terra? The Feature & Documentation Requests section of the Community forum is the best way to let us know what you’re thinking.
The cloud is the future of data sharing and collaboration. Yet to make it all work, it’s critical to provide appropriate tools and interfaces that streamline data access and analysis operations for researchers.
Jonathan Lawson explains how cumbersome data access processes that create major bottlenecks in accessing genomic data and limit scientific impact can be streamlined through ontologies and automation.
We’ve mentioned the AnVIL project a number of times in recent blog posts — covering topics such as Dockstore, RStudio, Galaxy, and DRS URIs — so it feels like it’s high time that we gave you some more context. Specifically, we thought it might be useful to reiterate the key goals of the AnVIL project and explain briefly how Terra fits in with the other AnVIL components.
Terra is developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily.
