Preface

This is a book about the Tercen platform and covers the motivation, design ideas, features, deployment, server administration aspects and roadmap. It is currently a draft and aims to eventually be the definitive guide to Tercen. It is incrementally written and changes often as we are constantly adding to the Tercen project.

Why read this book?

It is the centralized knowledge of Tercen in a book format. It is intended to be detailed and is aimed for researchers who require an understanding of Tercen. If you require a quick intro to Tercen then we suggest the starters guide.

Structure of the book

The book has a chapter for each of the tool’s main features. The final chapters contain additional practical information (e.g. server configuration, roadmaps).

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank all the users for their feedback about Tercen. It really helped us improve Tercen.

Typography conventions

Important terms and concepts are in bold (e.g. workflow, step, biologist). Any element related to a user interface element is in a code typography (e.g. factor label, ok button).

Feedback

If you wish to give feedback then please do not hesitate to create an entry in the issue tracker. The book is in a public github repository tercen book, therefore feel free to interact with the repository by cloning, modifying, pushing content.