Beth Sheets
Senior Product Manager for Terra's Analysis and Scientific Services
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Troubleshooting controlled access data on Terra
OverviewDatasets featured on Terra (app.terra.bio) come from a variety of consortia and publishers. Access to controlled datasets is managed by these external data partners, not by Terra itself. If...
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Automatically retrying workflows with more memory
What we're solving When workflow authors develop their WDLs, they write logic to calculate memory requirements for their tasks, which cover most of their use cases. However, edge cases occur, and i...
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Interactive filtering of VCF files in Terra's IGV integration
What we're solvingExploring genomic files in Terra has previously required that users spin up a notebook environment or workflow, which is time-consuming and costly. We are prototyping functionali...
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Cromwell on Google Batch API - released May 19, Generally Available as of June 23
As of June 23, 2025, Cromwell only allows users to run workflows on Google Batch API. What we're solving Our WDL execution engine, Cromwell, currently leverages the Cloud Life Sciences API when lau...
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Easily build, customize, and reuse compute environments (Jupyter Notebooks) - Launching 1/16/26
What we're solvingTerra notebook users who want to customize their own compute environments have given feedback that 1) the offered base images are too large, making them time-consuming to install ...
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Cromwell support for WDL 1.1 (released 2/2)
What we're solvingThe OpenWDL community has released WDL 1.1, which includes many helpful enhancements.Benefits to the user experienceSupport for WDL 1.1 improves interoperability of WDLs written b...
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Understanding the full cost of running workflows in Terra
Workflow run costsWorkflow run costs reflect the amount of time your workflow used compute resources from GCP Batch. These costs are displayed directly in the Workflow Submission user interface, un...
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Terra Workflow Repository improvements (formerly Broad Methods Repository) - Released 2/7/25
What we're solving The Broad Methods Repository was developed on Firecloud (the predecessor to Terra) and is out of sync with the Terra platform. We are migrating this repository from Firecloud to ...
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IGV is easier to use with hosted data (support for DRS) - Released 1/27/25
What we're solving IGV (Integrative Genomics Viewer) is an interactive tool for visually exploring genomic files. Terra users can open and view BAM, CRAM, and VCF files in workspace data tables in ...
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