This tutorial will guide you through fundamental Synapse features by performing some common tasksfor creating a project. You will learn how to:
Create your own project
Explore the project dashboard
Add a description to your project in the wiki
Share your work with other Synapse users, teams, or the public
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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, which requires special handling and awareness. To upload files, 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.
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Synapse Projects are the main “containers” where information is stored and organized in Synapse. They are online workspaces where researchers you can collaborate and share their your work with teammates. Synapse Projects can be shared with individuals, small teams, or large consortia. Projects can be private so only you can see what’s inside, or they can be shared publicly for anyone to browse.
To create a new Projectproject:
Navigate to your Synapse Dashboard. The Projects tab should already be selected.
Click the Create a New Project button.
Decide on a unique name for your Project project and click Save.
Synapse will automatically open your new project so you can view your project dashboard.
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At the top of the project page, you can click the green star next to the your project name to add it to a list of your favorites. Below the project name, the Synapse ID for this project is visible. The Synapse ID is a unique number used as a reference in Synapse, and it is a powerful tool to identify and manage content. Often abbreviated to “synID”, these identifiers are assigned to many things in Synapse; projects, folders, files, tables, views, and wikis all have unique synIDs that can be used to navigate to and reference these specific items. The synID never changes and is always accessible in the URL and visible on the web. If you use one of the programmatic clients to interact with Synapse, you can use synIDs to create scripts that will work universally for anyone and without the need for specifying file paths.
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Click on the Project Settings menu and select Project Sharing Settings.
Enter the usernames or team names to add collaborators.
To make the project publicly viewable, click make Make public and then adjust the access levels for registered users and anyone on the web.
Groups of users can form Synapse Teams for collaboration. Teams can be used for permissions and for communication. Sharing things something with teams a single team instead of many individual users can be a simple solution for administratorshelp administrators manage large, complex projects. Read more about using teams to manage group /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1985446029 and /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2030502408.
Anything inside your project will automatically inherit the same sharing settings as the project itself. In other words, if your project is public, then all of the contents within the project will also be public. If needed, you can change these settings so that certain files or folders are only shared with different specific groups of users. For more details, visit the Sharing Settings and /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2030502408 User Guides.
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