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Flocking toward computational reproducibility: Highlights from our Birds of a Feather session at BOSC 2021

Geraldine Van der Auwera August 24, 2021

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.

Terra in a nutshell: 2-minute video for newcomers

Geraldine Van der Auwera August 12, 2021

This week we highlight a new video we created to help newcomers understand what is Terra. The video summarizes why it makes sense to move biomedical data to the cloud, and outlines how Terra helps you access data, analyze it, and collaborate securely there.

From infrastructure projects to connected communities: Building a cloud data ecosystem with deep roots

Geraldine Van der Auwera July 2, 2021

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.

Expediting scientific discovery by streamlining data access with DUOS

Jonathan Lawson June 24, 2021

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.

How Terra fits within the AnVIL ecosystem

Geraldine Van der Auwera June 17, 2021

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.

Embracing DRS URIs and the benefits of data interoperability standards

Geraldine Van der Auwera May 13, 2021

DRS stands for Data Repository Service API, one of the interoperability standards developed under the aegis of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). In this blog, we explain the big picture of what DRS is for and how it liberates you from having to worry about certain data management problems.

Join us at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, July 29-30

Geraldine Van der Auwera May 4, 2021

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.