Visualization and Statistics (notebooks)

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A Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, and machine learning. Terra supports notebooks with R and Python kernels.

• What Packages are Already Installed on the Preconfigured Notebook Cloud Environments?

  This article shows a simple way the Terra UI provides for checking what packages are pre-installed on any one of the Jupyter Notebook application configurations that are selectable in the Cloud Environments widget. You can also see a list of every...
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• Understanding and Customizing your Cloud Environment

  Interactive applications - such as Jupyter notebooks - run on virtual machines or clusters of machines. When running an interactive application in Terra, you can adjust the configuration of the your VM or cluster Cloud Environment to fit your comp...
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• Terra's Jupyter Notebooks environment Part I: Key components

  Terra provides infrastructure for running interactive analyses with Jupyter Notebooks, which are files that contain analysis code and embedded documentation. This article is to help enhance your ability to do interactive analyses with a deeper und...
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• Terra's Jupyter Notebooks environment Part II: Key operations

  Terra uses a standard Jupyter Notebooks server implementation, so the interface and core capabilities are all basically the same as what you would see in any other setting. As a result, you can take advantage of the wealth of documentation and tut...
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• Terra's Jupyter Notebooks environment Part III: Best Practices

  This article outlines recommended practices when working with cloud-based Jupyter Notebooks in Terra. For more information about the capabilities of Terra-based notebooks, explore the Visualization and Statistics section of our support knowledge b...
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• Launching RStudio in Terra by using community-maintained images

  If you use lots of R, you’ll be happy to know that Terra has integrated RStudio capabilities - you can spin up a cloud environment pre-configured to run the server version of RStudio right on the Terra platform. The integration is a result of our ...
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• Cloud Environment FAQs

  The article shares some of the frequently asked questions about the cloud environment's functionality in Terra. Please leave a comment on the article if you have more questions that should be considered.  Frequently Asked Questions Do I have a d...
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• Analyzing data from a workspace bucket in a notebook

  The virtual machine running a Jupyter notebook has its own storage, separate from the workspace bucket. To analyze data in your workspace bucket in a notebook, you will need to import the data to the virtual disk. Below are the two steps, and exac...
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• "Edit" and "Playground" Notebook Modes

  Attention: Notebook cloud environments created before August 1, 2019 are incompatible with the new "Edit" and "Playground" modes. Further action is required. Please keep reading for next steps. Otherwise, please skip ahead to the "What is a notebo...
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• Detachable Persistent Disks

  Terra attaches a persistent disk (PD) to your cloud compute in order to provide an option to keep the data on the disk after you delete your compute. PDs also act as a safeguard to protect your data in the case that something goes wrong with the c...
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• Using the Terminal and Interactive Analysis Shell in Terra

  With Terra's terminal interface you can execute UNIX command-line code quickly within the cloud environment that runs notebooks in a workspace. This allows you to perform actions like listing files, moving files to and from the notebook disk and a...
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• Copying notebook output to a Google bucket

  Data generated by running an analysis in a Jupyter notebook is saved to the disk associated with the virtual notebook cloud environment. When the cloud environment is deleted, the data are as well. To transfer data generated within a notebook to m...
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• Changing data file directories

  UPDATE Oct 22, 2019: We were able to simplify how users need to change the file paths in notebooks that point to local data files. Therefore, the article below differs slightly from the email notification you may have received on October 18,2019. ...
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• Viewing IGV tracks of BAM files in your workspace data

  This article explains two ways you can use the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) to examine tracks from BAM (.bam) files in Terra. From the workspace Data tab From the IGV web app   1. From the workspace Data tab Data files in the cloud linked...
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• Using a startup script to launch a pre-configured Jupyter notebook

  If the default environments available in the Application Configuration dropdown menu found in the Cloud Environments widget don't come with all of the packages you consistently need, and you'd like a more efficient way of launching a Jupyter noteb...
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• Using the Bioconductor Docker image in Terra

  The Bioconductor Docker image is one of the current base images integrated into Terra. This guide will introduce you to the Terra Bioconductor image and how to use it with a Jupyter Notebook.  Contents Introduction to Bioconductor and the Terra B...
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• Preventing runaway costs with notebook auto-pause

  To prevent runaway charges when no computational work is being done in a notebook, cloud environments will automatically pause when there is no web browser or kernel activity for 30 minutes. Note that kernel activity will only prevent autopause fo...
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• Adjusting autopause for notebooks using Swagger

  Occasionally, you may need to extend the default autopause time (30 minutes) to accommodate long-running (i.e. more than 24 hours) jobs. Note that autopause is already disabled up to 24 hours as long as the kernel is running.  To do this without r...
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• Notebooks 101: How not to lose data stored or generated in a notebook cloud environment

  If you remember the days before Google docs, you know firsthand the pain of losing work you thought was safe: working for hours on a paper only to have it vanish if your computer shut down and you hadn't saved it. Notebooks are wonderful for inter...
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• Protecting data from an old notebook cloud environment

  1. Identify notebooks in old clusters To see what notebook VMs you created under each billing project, and when you created them, go to https://app.terra.bio/#clustersSee a virtual machine or cluster created before August 1st? Note the Billing Pro...
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