Documentation
In-depth guides for every step in the research journey, from finding and managing data to pipelining with workflows to interactive analysis (Jupyter notebook, RStudio or Galaxy).
Account and billing
- Setting up a Google account with a non-Google email
- How to set up billing in Terra
- Changing the Google Cloud Billing account of a Terra Billing project
- How to add/remove GCP Billing account users
- How to disable billing
- Delete a Terra Billing project using Swagger
Managing Access
- Sharing data and tools with workspace access controls
- Managing access to shared resources (data and tools)
- Best practices for sharing and protecting data resources
- Best practices for managing shared funding
- Linking authorization/accessing controlled data on external servers
- Accessing GCP features that are not in the Terra UI
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Managing Cloud costs
- Understanding Terra costs and billing
- Understanding and controlling Cloud costs on Terra
- Controlling Cloud costs - sample use cases
- Where to view your cloud costs in Terra
- How much does my workflow cost?
- Terra expenses and breaking down a Google bill
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Workspaces
- Working with workspaces
- Curated template and tutorial workspaces
- Make your own project workspace
- Collaborate in a shared workspace
- Documentation best practices (dashboards and notebooks)
- Recommendations for sharing a workspace with a broad audience
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Data
- Managing access to controlled data with Authorization Domains
- Customizing where your data are stored and analyzed
- Understanding and using Gen3 data in Terra
- Using "Requester Pays" workspaces/buckets
- See all 12 articles
Workflows
- Workflow setup: Writing outputs to the data table
- Workflow setup: VM and other options
- Selecting the root entity type
- When to use a set table for a workflow
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Interactive Analysis
- Cloud Environment FAQs
- Analyses tab FAQs
- Using the terminal and interactive analysis shell in Terra
- Standardizing a custom RStudio or Jupyter environment
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Working with Containers (Docker)
- Docker/container overview
- Docker tutorial: Custom cloud environments for Jupyter notebooks
- Install Docker and test that it works
- Run GATK in a Docker container
- Creating safe and secure custom Docker images
- Make a Docker (container) image the easy way: using a base image
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Troubleshooting
- Expired Google Billing Account trial
- Google Cloud Billing account isn't showing up or has an error message
- Google Cloud Billing account does not appear in the billing management screen
- "resource has been exhausted" error
Legal and Compliance
- Terms of Service
- Terra security posture
- List of third-party tools
- Security logout for clinical researchers
- Government-owned websites and datasets (Last Revised Feb 5,2020)