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Organize your work: With Synapse, you can organize the parts in your workflow (data, code, etc) into a hierarchy like a file system. With the tabs across the top of each project, you can easily navigate to your wikisyour wikis, files files and folders, SQL-based tablesbased tables, and even conduct conversations using discussion using discussion forums.
Store data, code, and results: You can upload your data, code, and results to Synapse, or store a reference to their location in your local computer system or on the web. Everything can be stored as files hosted by Synapse, in your own external cloud storage, or using Docker containers.
Control data access or release it publicly: You have complete control over how users and groups can interact with your work. Work privately, openly, or somewhere in between.
Link and share content with others: Just as you can control the access to your work, projects can serve as a platform for linking and sharing your work with others.
Custom, searchable annotations: Assign any key/value pair you want. Those values become searchable and available to those granted access.
Attach figures and documents: Upload documents and images via the website or programmatically.
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Synapse files can be created by uploading content from your local computer or linking to digital files on the web. You can annotate files with custom metadata, embed files into Synapse wiki pages, or associate them with a DOI /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2667708522, /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2667774092, or /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/1972405096.
Files in Synapse always have a “parent”, which could be a project or a folder. You can organize collections of files into folders and sub-folders, just as you would on your local computer.
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You can control who has access to files that you upload in two ways. First, you can apply sharing settings, which control who can view, edit, download, or delete a file. Second, you can also apply conditions for use, which are additional requirements that Synapse users must meet before accessing your file. By default, files inherit the conditions for use of the Synapse folder where they are uploaded. You can also add additional conditions for use on specific files within a folder.
To read more about how to use sharing settings and conditions for use together, see the full Sharing and Accessing Data pagearticle on /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2024276030.
Folders
Folders offer an additional way to organize your data. Instead of uploading a bunch of single files into your project, you can create folders to separate your data in a systematic way. You can create a folder within a folder within a folder, and so on.
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