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Add a folder to a project and upload a file
Annotate a file
Add a description to your folder with a wiki
Download a file
Prerequisites
Anyone can browse public content on the Synapse website, but to download and create content using this tutorial, you will need to register for an account using your email address. You will receive an email message for verification to complete the registration process.
To upload files to Synapse, you will need to perform the additional step of becoming a Certified User. Because Synapse stores data from human subjects research, Sage Bionetworks requires that you demonstrate understanding of privacy and security issues. You can complete your certification by taking a short Certification Quiz on Synapse.
Creating Folders and Uploading Files
Before you begin, make sure you have already created a project (see Quick Start Tutorial: Setting up a Project), and that you have certified your user account. To create a folder and upload a file:
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To learn more, see the user guide on Files and Folders. To explore other features available for files and folders, read about sharing files, /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1972405096, versioning, and /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1972470373.
Annotating Files
Annotations help you find files and search for data. In Synapse, annotations are stored as key-value pairs, where the key defines a particular aspect of your data (for example, species, assay, file format) and the value defines a variable that belongs to that category (mouse, RNAseq, .bam). You can add annotations to projects, files, folders, tables, and views in Synapse. In this example, you will annotate the file that you uploaded in the previous section of this tutorial:
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Once you add annotations to a file, you can use them to query for data, or you can build /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2011070739 to display annotation information for many files at once.
Downloading Files
You can download files from the Synapse web interface or use one of the programmatic clients. If you are downloading files from the web, you can either download single files at once, or you can add multiple files to a download list, which is similar to an online shopping cart. On the web, the maximum size of a download is 5 Gb, or a maximum of 100 files if using the download list. To download larger files in greater numbers, we recommend using one of the programmatic clients.
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