Getting Started

All the basics to get you up and running quickly on Terra.

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Everything you need to know about the scalable platform for biomedical research in a suite of free courses on Leanpub. We recommend taking the courses in this order.

1. Intro to Terra 
2. Billing and Secure Collaboration in Terra 
3. Introduction to Data Tables in Terra 
4. Pipelining with Workflows in Terra 
5. Introduction to Cloud Environments 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
• How to register for a Terra account
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Tutorials

• Data Tables QuickStart Tutorial
  Data Tables Quickstart Part 1 - Intro to data tables
  • Data Tables Quickstart Part 2 - Making a data table from scratch
  • Data Tables Quickstart Part 3: Understanding sets of data
  • Data Tables Quickstart Part 4: Sets again! WDLS that take sets (arrays) as inputs
• Workflows QuickStart Tutorial
  Workflows Quickstart Part 1 - Run pre-configured workflow
  • Workflows Quickstart Part 2 - Configure workflow to run on data in a table
  • Workflows Quickstart Part 3 - Run a back-to-back analysis (pipeline)
• Notebooks QuickStart Tutorial
  Notebooks Quickstart Guide
  • Notebooks Quickstart Guide: Analysing data from the Terra data Library
• Machine Learning on Terra (advanced tutorial)
  Machine learning in Terra, Part I: Train in a Terra notebook
  • Machine learning on Terra, Part II: Scaling training, and serving
  • Machine learning on Terra, Part III: ML Ops
• gsutil tutorial
• Using our Leanpub courses to get started on Terra
• Hands-on tutorial workspaces overview

Videos

• Focus on your science
• Intro to Terra
• Intro to Terra workspaces
• Using workspaces in Terra
• Collaborating and sharing on Terra
• Intro to data tables
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