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Welcome to the Synapse docs site!

This site exists to help orient you to Synapse to make the most of your experience using itSynapse.

Whether you’re new to Synapse, or an experienced user, this docs site should help.

What’s on this docs site for you?

• Read about Synapse—how Synapse—how it got started and how it fits into the bigger data-sharing picture

• Gain a better understanding of Sage Bionetworks (that’s us—the nonprofit organization that created Synapse) and our other platforms that coincide with Synapse (such as portals)

• Learn about Sage’s Synapse governance, and how that affects it protects data privacy within Synapse

• Get familiar with the structure and components of Synapse so you can navigate it with ease, and manage your account, and personalize your experience

• Learn how to upload and organize your data

• Learn how to upload, organize, and curate your data, as well as other data stored in Synapse

• Learn how to find and download data of interest

• Get information to our API clients, including access to API documentation, as well as cloud computing

• Read about newly released or improved features

• Put instructions into action with our use cases—real cases—real applications of specific tasks

• Look up an unfamiliar term or acronym in our glossary

• Finally, see See our help section for further assistance via the FAQ page, discussion forum, or contact information to get in touch

• Plus, much more—browse our articles or use the search bar to find exactly the information you need

What do you need to get started?

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Exploring and downloading data

As a registered user, you can view and download any data that is publicly available.

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To work with data of your own or your team’s, you must become a certified user. To become certified, you must pass a certification quiz, which will ask you about information that can be found throughout this documentation site.

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To access mHealth data, you must become a validated user.