A review of Terra features supporting documentation for transfer of knowledge and reproducibility, inspired by “Ten simple rules for large-scale data processing” (Fungtammasan 2022)
A review of data, code and tools available for reuse in Terra, inspired by “Ten simple rules for large-scale data processing” (Fungtammasan 2022)
A new playlist of workshop videos by Dr. Karen Miga’s team at UCSC demonstrates how to use data and resources from the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium
Lead Educator Robert Majovski presents a listicle of 8 key resources that can help Terra newcomers and veterans alike get the most out of the Terra platform.
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.
We teamed up with the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network consortium to put together a hands-on workshop focused on helping researchers get started with key resources including the Neuroscience Multi-Omic Archive, Single Cell Portal, and Terra.
If you’re a PI switching from using institutional computing resources that are normally paid out of grant overhead, and until your institution lets you reallocate that money to cover cloud costs, you’re going to need to find new funding. The good news is that there are some funding sources out there dedicated to bridging that gap […]
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 Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (we’re working with Microsoft to add support for Azure). The good news is that you can get free credits to try out GCP and Terra, and see if this all works for you, without paying anything out of pocket.
Happy New Year and welcome back to all of you who have been enjoying a period of holidays! And to everyone else, we hope you get a break soon. Not to put too much pressure on 2021, but we have high hopes for this new year. So what better way to get started than with a new informational website for Terra? […]
What do the Teen Titans and a German docu-series called Terra X have in common? That’s right, they’re the top hits you get on Google when you search for “Terra intro videos YouTube”. So, you might have already searched for Terra videos and come up empty; or you might have used […]
Terra is developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily.
