Use integrated Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio, and Galaxy instances to analyze data in real time. These apps run on virtual machines (VMs) in a dedicated workspace Cloud Environment (your "laptop in the cloud"). This article reviews interactive analysis app resources in Terra Support.
What is "interactive analysis"?
Interactive analysis in Terra lets you use integrated development environments (IDEs like Jupyter Notebooks, RStudio, and Galaxy) to analyze data in real time using the same kind of UI you would expect from using those environments on your own machine.
Think of it as having a "laptop in the cloud" — with its own CPUs, GPUs, memory, and storage — where you can access and manipulate data using the same familiar app-like interfaces you would use on your physical laptop.
Terra currently supports a few different integrated development environments, depending on which app you want to use (Notebooks or RStudio, for example).
Terra's integrated development environments
Learn more about your laptop in the cloud options with these resources.
Cloud Environment Basics
Learn the basics for using and managing Cloud Environments in Terra here.
Galaxy
Learn how to use Galaxy - an open web-based platform for highly accessible bioinformatic research - in Terra - by clicking here.
Jupyter Notebooks
Jupyter Notebooks is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, and machine learning. Terra supports notebooks with R and Python kernels. Learn more about Jupyter in Terra here.
RStudio
Learn about integrated RStudio capabilities, including how to spin up a Cloud Environment pre-configured to run the server version of RStudio right on the Terra platform by clicking here.