PANOPLY is a computational framework for applying statistical and machine learning algorithms to transform multi-omic data from cancer samples into biologically meaningful and interpretable results. In this post, D. R. Mani explains how his team is leveraging Terra to make PANOPLY accessible to a wide range of researchers.
The Broad Institute has been awarded the high profile “FedRAMP Moderate” security authorization for the operation of the Terra platform. David Bernick gives us insight into the FedRAMP program and explains what this means for researchers using Terra to access, analyze and share sensitive data.
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.
A commentary from the Terra partners leadership on a recently published Nature News feature titled “The broken promise that undermines human genome research”.
In this guest blog post, Tiffany Miller describes an analysis project she undertook in Terra in collaboration with her colleague Mark Walker, in which they applied a metagenomic approach to identify viral insertion sites in human genome sequencing data […]
In this guest blog post, Bo Li, Principal Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, explains how using Terra enabled his group to develop a new single-cell transcriptomic analysis framework, Cumulus, to serve the needs of the Immune Cell Atlas project. […]
In this guest blog post, Longqi Liu from Beijing Genomics Institute-Research and Miguel A. Esteban from the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (Chinese Academy of Sciences), discuss their efforts in developing a better understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and how they utilized Single Cell Portal to make their research accessible to others. […]
In this guest blog post, Timothy Majarian, a Computational Associate from the Manning lab is giving us a glimpse to the lab’s journey with transitioning to cloud computing using Terra from the lab’s local high-performance compute cluster. Back in 2017, our lab had just begun the transition to cloud computing from using our […]
Terra is developed by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in collaboration with Microsoft and Verily.
