SCHARE Tutorials and Resources

If you have not already, please register for SCHARE . You must register for SCHARE to access the resources listed below. To register for SCHARE, please use a Gmail account or another email account associated with a Google identity. If you need help, please read the SCHARE registration walkthrough or email schare@mail.nih.gov.

SCHARE is powered by the Terra research collaboration platform. Instructional notebooks on the SCHARE Terra Workspace provide step-by-step instructions on:

• How to properly configure your Terra account and cloud environment.
• How to access, plot, and save data from datasets hosted by SCHARE, available on SCHARE through the Google Cloud Public Datasets Program, or stored locally on your computer.
• How to use Jupyter Notebooks to run analyses and combine data across available datasets.
• How to share analyses and results with your collaborators.

After registering for SCHARE , you can access these instructional notebooks through the Analyses tab in the SCHARE Terra Workspace .

Other Terra Tutorials and Resources

If you are new to Terra, we recommend exploring the following resources:

• Overview Articles : Review high-level docs that outline what you can do in Terra, how to set up an account and account billing, and how to access, manage, and analyze data in the cloud.
• Video Guides : Watch live demos of the Terra platform’s useful features.
• Terra Courses : Learn about Terra with free modules on the Leanpub online learning platform.
• Data Tables QuickStart Tutorial : Learn what data tables are and how to create, modify, and use them in analyses.
• Notebooks QuickStart Tutorial : Learn how to access and visualize data using a Jupyter notebook.
• Machine Learning Advanced Tutorial : Learn how Terra can support machine learning-based analysis.

For additional background information and detailed descriptions of the SCHARE platform components visit the SCHARE Components page.

Page updated March 12, 2025