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You can query tables, views, and datasets to find the data you need quickly. Views are especially useful for finding data that may be spread across multiple folders or projects. You can take advantage of querying via the Synapse UI, or using one of the programmatic clients.

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To find files in a specific project, create a file view /wiki/spaces/DOCS/pages/2011070739 in the web client. For example, if you’d like to see all files in a project, navigate to your project and then select the Tables tab. From there, click Tables Tools and Add File View. Click Add container and Enter Synapse ID to create a tabular file view that contains every file in the project, which you can now query. Importantly, if you want to later query on annotations, you must select Add All Annotations. For a more in-depth look at this feature, see Views.

Listing Files in a Specific Folder

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synapse query "SELECT specimenID,genomeBuild,fileFormat,platform FROM syn123456 WHERE \"specimenID\"='sampleA_conditionB'"

result = syn.tableQuery("SELECT specimenID,genomeBuild,fileFormat,platform FROM syn123456 WHERE \"specimenID\"='sampleA_conditionB'")

result = synTableQuery("SELECT specimenID,genomeBuild,fileFormat,platform FROM syn123456 WHERE \"specimenID\"='sampleA_conditionB'")

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Downloading from a Query

You can download files in a folder using queries. Currently this feature is only available in the command line client. For example, if you want to download all files in a file view that has a synapse ID of syn00123, use:

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