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 GCP Billing account of a Terra Billing project
- How to add/remove GCP Billing account users See all 16 articles
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)
- Best practices for managing shared team costs
- How to disable billing on a Terra project See all 9 articles
Workspaces: computational sandboxes for your research
Data in the cloud
- Managing data with workspace tables
- Terra architecture and how your files live in it
- Adding data to a workspace with a template
- Understanding entity types and the standard genomic data model
- Making, modifying, and deleting data tables
- How to import metadata to a workspace data table See all 27 articles
Pipelining workflows
- 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 24 articles
Troubleshooting
Cloud Environment (Interactive Tools)
- Cloud Environment FAQs
- Understanding and adjusting your Cloud Environment
- What packages are installed on preconfigured Cloud Environments?
- Using a startup script to launch a pre-configured cloud environment
- Detachable Persistent Disks
- Using the Terminal and Interactive Analysis Shell in Terra See all 18 articles
Working with containers (Docker)
Project-specific documentation
- Terra's support for scientific projects
- AnVIL: Linking Gen3 and AnVIL on Terra
- AnVIL: Galaxy on Terra FAQ
- BioData Catalyst: Billing overview for BioData Catalyst users
- BioData Catalyst: Authorization Domain overview for BioData Catalyst users
- COVID-19 workspaces, data and tools in Terra See all 10 articles