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Annotation is the process of labeling your data files with terms from the NF-OSI dictionary. By adding clinical or experimental annotations, you will help make the data easier for others to find and understand things like: what type of data it is, what sort of experiment was performed, what type of biological system it came from, and what format the data is. Metadata/annotation is not a substitute for sharing protocols or methodology; it won’t help someone reproduce an experiment from scratch, but it will help them get a basic understanding of the nature of the data, and can be very helpful to people who aim to reuse the data (or even future you)!
In Synapse and the NF Data Portal, annotations live alongside files. Rather than being in the file itself, these annotations are surfaced in Synapse and the NF Data Portal to allow people looking for data to easily search and filter data by the annotation values.
Please read the How to annotate your data guide to learn how to annotate your data.
Where can I find definitions for terms in the NF-OSI dictionary?
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