Getting Started
All the basics to get you up and running quickly on Terra.
Terra course online
Everything you need to know about the scalable platform for biomedical research in a suite of free courses on Leanpub.
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We recommend taking the courses in this order
- Intro to Terra
- Billing and Secure Collaboration in Terra (billing and finance admins)
- Introduction to Data Tables in Terra
- Pipelining with Workflows in Terra
- Introduction to Interactive Analysis in Terra
Overview articles
- Overview: Research in the cloud on Terra
- Intro to workspaces
- Understanding data in the Cloud
- Pipelining with workflows
- Interactive analysis apps: Galaxy, Jupyter notebooks and RStudio
- Glossary of terms related to cloud-based genomics
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Registration and setup
- Three steps to get started in Terra
- How to register on Terra (Google ID)
- How to set up a Terra account with a non-Google email
- Set up billing with $300 Google credits to explore Terra
- Navigating in Terra
Tutorials
- Machine learning on Terra, Part II: Scaling training, and serving
- Machine learning on Terra, Part III: ML Ops