Chapter 7 Onboarding

Joining a team on AnVIL.


7.1 Create Google Account

Choose Your Account Type

Do you plan to work with controlled-access data (e.g. GTEx, dbGaP)?

  • IF YES, you MUST use an institutional email address. To comply with NIH data security requirements, unaffiliated email accounts (such as gmail.com) CANNOT be given access to controlled-access data.

Will you be moving between institutions?

  • IF YES, you might consider a gmail account. There is no way to transfer a Terra account to a new Google account (e.g. a new institutional email); you will have to add your new account to any projects you want to keep working on. So, if you are not going to be working with controlled-access data, it may be more convenient to use an unaffiliated gmail account.

There are 2 ways to set up a Google account for use with Terra:

  1. Institutional Account: use your institutional email
    • If your institution uses G Suite, you can sign into Terra directly using your institutional Google account.
    • If your institution does not use G Suite, you can create a Google account that is associated with your non-Google institutional email address by following these instructions.
  2. Unaffiliated Google Account: use a personal account
    • If you have an existing Google account (such as gmail.com), you can use it to sign into Terra.
    • If you do not already have a Google account that you would like to use for accessing Terra, create one now.
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