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This page documents best practices for organizing data and other materials within your NF project.

Project Folders

A new Synapse Project is initialized using a default structure with these three folders:

  • Raw Data or Data: This can be further partitioned to house different types of raw data. For raw data types and formats commonly seen in this location, see How to Format Your Data.

  • Milestone Reports or Reporting: This should house the summary reports that link data files to specific award milestones.

  • Analysis: This can house the code, protocols, and derived results that comprise an analysis performed on raw data.

New NF community contributions should go into these core containers as delineated. Some older projects or independent projects (not sponsored by one of our funders) may not have this exact top-level scheme. Sometimes a project may create an additional folder to house materials that fall outside the scope of these containers, which is not usually an issue.

Good examples are also provided in the following subsections.

Raw Data

The Synodos NF2 project provides a good working example for organization of multiple raw data types within the Data folder. Here data are largely grouped by release year and type.

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