Jan 11, 2021 10:58am Microsoft plans to dedicate its own software engineering resources and lend its machine learning expertise to Terra’s efforts, while also using open application interfaces and internationally recognized modular software components. (Microsoft) Verily and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard hope to dramatically boost the reach of their open-source biomedical research platform through a new partnership with Microsoft. The scalable Terra platform includes digital tools currently used by over 15,600 researchers, to analyze and collaborate on data gathered from nearly 2 million study participants spanning cancer genomics to infectious disease projects. Now, Microsoft is signing on as an equal partner in Terra’s operation and development—and the computing giant plans to help drive its global adoption, by pulling it through its established network of AI and cloud-computing customers that includes over 168,000 healthcare organizations.