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.
One of our biggest feature developments so far this year has been the addition of Galaxy, the popular open-source bioinformatics application, to Terra’s interactive analysis portfolio.
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.
In April, we celebrate Citizen Science Month, World Autism Day, and National DNA Day. In this guest blog post, all three events come together as KT Pickard, father of a young woman with autism, shares his family’s story of personal genomics and citizen science.
Like any repository of community-contributed content, we need to ensure that contributors can manage their content conveniently, and that researchers are able to find the right content for their needs.
How a team of designers and engineers rose to the challenge of supporting TestBoston, a collaborative project with Brigham and Women’s Hospital that aims to monitor the infection rate of COVID-19 in Massachusetts over time.
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. […]
New year, new partnership… and a new blog series focusing on highlighting papers that we think will be of interest to many of you. For this first iteration, we review a review paper (review-ception!) fresh off the virtual press over at GigaScience, coming out of C. Titus Brown’s lab at UC Davis, on the topic of workflow systems.
Ever since we introduced Jupyter Notebooks in Terra, we’ve sought to provide default environments pre-loaded with software packages that are likely to interest you, to minimize the amount of setup necessary to get your work going. However, we’ve found that there’s a huge amount of variation in the needs and preferences of researchers, from […]
