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)
- 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 do I retrieve the time and cost of my workflow? See all 8 articles
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
- 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 13 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
- Configure a workflow to process your data
- Importing a workflow and its configuration file from Dockstore into Terra
- Getting workflows up and running faster with a JSON file See all 17 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 Cloud Environment
- "Edit" and "Playground" Notebook Modes
- Detachable Persistent Disks See all 16 articles
Working with containers (Docker)
- Selecting prior notebook cloud environment/application configurations versions
- Docker/container overview
- Working with project-specific environments in Terra
- Docker tutorial: Custom cloud environments for Jupyter Notebooks
- Run GATK in a Docker container
- Install Docker and test that it works See all 9 articles
Project-specific documentation
Troubleshooting
- How to report an issue
- Is the Terra platform down?
- Billing: Error creating billing project - "The caller does not have permission"
- Billing: Expired Google Billing Account trial
- 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 17 articles