Documentation
Every step in the research journey in depth, from finding and managing data to analysis, whether running pipelines as batch processing jobs and interactive analysis in a Jupyter notebook.
Controlling costs (cloud storage, compute, and egress)
Workspaces: computational sandboxes for your research
Account setup & admin (including security)
- How to register for a Terra account
- Setting up a Google account with a non-Google email
- Access $300 Google credits to explore Terra
- How to set up billing in Terra
- How to change the Google Billing Account funding a Terra Billing Project
- Structure of Permissions, Groups, and Billing See all 14 articles
Data in the cloud
Pipelining
- Get started running workflows
- Getting started with GATK workflows in the cloud FAQs
- Finding the workflow (method) you need (and its JSON) in the Methods Repository
- Create, edit, and share a new workflow
- Importing a workflow and its configuration file from Dockstore into Terra
- Configure a workflow to process your data See all 16 articles
Visualization and Statistics (notebooks)
- Terra's Jupyter Notebooks environment Part I: Key components
- Terra's Jupyter Notebooks environment Part II: Key operations
- Terra's Jupyter Notebooks environment Part III: Best Practices
- Understanding and Customizing your Notebook Runtime
- "Edit" and "Playground" Notebook Modes
- Notebooks 101: How not to lose data stored or generated in a notebook runtime See all 15 articles
Working with containers (Docker)
- Docker/container overview
- Working with project-specific environments in Terra
- Docker tutorial: Custom runtime environments for Jupyter Notebooks
- Run GATK in a Docker container
- Install Docker and test that it works
- Publish a Docker container image to Google Container Registry (GCR) See all 8 articles
Project-specific documentation
Troubleshooting
- How to report an issue
- Is the Terra platform down?
- Troubleshooting Workflows: Tips and Tricks
- Billing: Total run cost "not available"
- Billing: Google Billing Account isn't showing up or has an error message
- Billing: Google Billing Account does not appear in the Billing Management screen See all 16 articles