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.
Account and billing setup & admin (including security)
- How to register for a Terra account
- Setting up a Google account with a non-Google email
- Set up billing with $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
- How to add/remove GCP Billing account users See all 15 articles
Workspaces: computational sandboxes for your research
Controlling costs (cloud storage, compute, and egress)
- Understanding costs and billing in Terra
- Understanding and controlling Cloud costs
- Controlling Cloud costs - sample use cases
- Using permissions and groups to manage shared resources (billing, data, and workspaces)
- How to disable billing on a Terra project
- Best practices for managing shared team costs See all 9 articles
Data in the cloud
- Understanding the Terra ecosystem and how your files live in it
- Linking controlled-access authorization (external servers)
- Managing data with workspace tables
- How to import metadata to a workspace data table
- Adding data to a workspace with a template
- Making, modifying, and deleting data tables See all 26 articles
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
- Importing a workflow and its configuration file from Dockstore into Terra
- What happens when you launch a workflow?
- How to set up a workflow analysis See all 23 articles
Troubleshooting
Visualization and Statistics (notebooks)
- Understanding and Customizing your Cloud Environment
- 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
- Launching RStudio in Terra by using community-maintained images
- Cloud Environment FAQs See all 19 articles
Working with containers (Docker)
- Docker/container overview
- Install Docker and test that it works
- Run GATK in a Docker container
- Docker tutorial: Custom cloud environments for Jupyter Notebooks
- Working with project-specific environments in Terra
- Selecting prior notebook cloud environment/application configurations versions See all 9 articles