We’ve spent the last several months mapping out a strategy to evolve Terra for the future. Together with leading scientists at the Broad Institute and our collaborators, we’ve been imagining how research will be done in the next five to ten years, and how Broad’s Data Sciences Platform (DSP) can deliver on what you’ll need to drive discovery in the next decade.
Erdal Cosgun-co author of this blog- is the Lead Data Scientist in the Microsoft Genomics Team and working on the Interactive Analysis component of Terra on Microsoft Azure. Terra on Microsoft Azure cloud computing continues to evolve to meet the demand for high-performance virtual machines (VMs) capable of handling
Highlights from Terra’s development and growth in 2022, heading into the multi-cloud future of 2023.
Discover the newest component of the Terra platform, designed to provide data storage and access management capabilities tailored for the life sciences.
Bringing workflows under version control to make large-scale data processing reproducible; inspired by “Ten simple rules for large-scale data processing” (Fungtammasan 2022).
This pediatric oncology study used Terra to identify germline variants contributing to Ewing sarcoma pathogenesis in 1,147 individuals with pediatric sarcoma diagnoses.
Verily software engineers share tips and resources for running Jupyter notebooks programmatically without writing any code.
In response to popular demand, our User Education team has been running weekly interactive workshops to help newcomers get started with Terra. They’ve also developed some satellite workshops that use Terra to teach specific applications like whole genome analysis with DRAGEN-GATK. These online events are open to all and are
New notification system emails you when your workflow submission status changes to “Succeeded”, “Aborted” or “Failed”.
Senior product manager Alessandro Culotti shares his team’s plans for making it possible to run a wider variety of analysis applications in Terra.
Terra is developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily.
