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. 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 on Terra
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Tutorials

• 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
• T101 - Data Tables Quickstart Guide
• T101 - Workflows Quickstart Guide
• T101 - Notebooks Quickstart Guide
• Using our Leanpub courses to get started on Terra
• gsutil tutorial

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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