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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, 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 this tutorial, make sure you have already created a project (see Quick Start: Setting Up a Project), and that you have certified your user account. .
Uploading a File
To create a folder and upload a file:
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To learn more, see Files and foldersFolders. To explore other features available for files and folders, read about Sharing settingsSettings, /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1972405096, Versioning filesFiles, and /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1972470373.
Add a Folder Wiki
You can add a description to the folder you just created by adding a folder wiki. Wikis can be added to projects, folders, tables, and files in Synapse, and they can help you communicate essential details, instructions, or other information about your work to other collaborators.
To add a wiki to the folder you just created:
Navigate to the Files tab.
Select the folder you just created and navigate into it.
From the Folder Tools menu, select Edit Folder Wiki.
Type a description of your folder contents in the wiki editing window, then click Save.
Your wiki content will be visible to anyone who has access to your folder.
To learn more, see the Wikis article.
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.
For more information, see the Annotations and Queries article.
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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