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1. Click the Samples caNanoLab menu option. On the Manage Samples Home page, click the Submit a New Sample link. This opens the Submit a New Sample form.
2. Select or enter the appropriate information in the text fields and drop-down list. Fields are described in the following table. Asterisks indicate required fields.

3. Some fields may contain the [Other] option. Click Other to enter an alternative to the selections listed. At that point, your entry is enclosed in [new entry] brackets, indicating that your entry is temporary. Once you click Submit (or Update), your entry is persisted and the brackets disappear.

   Name	Definition
   Sample Name*	Enter a sample name of your choice.
   Point of Contact*	Select in the drop-down list the site that is the source of the sample. Enter the other identifying information for the POC. Click Save in this section. To add an additional POC, click the Add button and repeat these steps.
   Keywords	Add any keyword(s) you want associated with the selected sample, one keyword per line. You can enter something not necessarily captured by any data. The keywords you enter can be used to search for this sample ID.
   Access to the Sample	Access to the Sample can be assigned to either Collaboration Groups or Users. Click the search icon to select select from collaboration groups to which you have read access. When you submit a new data into the system, by default, the person submitting the data and anybody in the Curator group automatically have CURD (create, update, read, delete) access to the data. Other access must be manually assigned through this function. Note: caNanolab no longer has different access for assay result files. File access is now the same as Sample access.

   To clear the entries and start again, click the button.

4. When you have finished defining the sample, click the Submit button. A message appears verifying the submission.

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The page that displays is the same Sample page on which the sample was submitted. On this page, only after login and with appropriate permissions, you can edit the sample information. Details are described in the following table. An asterisk indicates a required field.

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1. To launch a basic search for a sample, continue from step 2 described in 3 - Managing Samples in caNanoLab 2.1 DRAFT.

2. Enter text or select options as appropriate (described in the following table) in the search form.
   When defining search criteria, there are no "required" fields. You can add only those parameters that you consider essential to the search.

   Info
   title "Other" option
   Some fields may contain the [Other] option. Click Other to enter an alternative to the selections listed. At that point, your entry is enclosed in [new entry] brackets, indicating that your entry is temporary. Once you click Submit (or Update), your entry is persisted and the brackets disappear.

   Sample Search Options	Description
   Keywords	Enter one or more keywords by which samples could be identified in this search. caNanoLab can search for characterization or publication keywords, as well as text describing characterizations.
   Sample Name	Enter text for the name of a sample. Select Contains (for search using partial text) or Equals (for exact text search).
   Sample Point of Contact	Enter text for the name or organization point of contact. Select Contains (for search using partial text) or Equals (for exact text search).
   Composition	Nanomaterial Entity Select from the scroll list the nanoparticle category to which the nanomaterial entity targeted by the search belongs. Example: Dendrimer Functionalizing Entity Select from the scroll list the functionalizing category to which the sample targeted by the search belongs.* Monomer Polymer Quantum Dot Antibody Biopolymer Small Molecule Function Select from the drop-down list the function type category which best fits the sample targeted by the search: Imaging Function [Other] Targeting Function Therapeutic Function Transfection *You may see terms in caNanoLab that are not defined in the help glossary. These have been added by curators as [other]; they may be reviewed and defined at a later time.
   Characterization Type/Characterization	Click from the drop-down list on the left, the characterization type that applies to the sample to be searched: Physico-Chemical, In Vitro or In Vivo. Your selection determines the sub-categories that display in the Characterization field to the right. Select one or more of the items in the Characterization list.* (CTRL + click to select more than one.) Physico-Chemical Characterizations: Molecular Weight Physical State Purity Relaxivity Shape Size Solubility Surface In Vitro Characterizations:   Blood Contact Cytotoxicity Enzyme Induction Immune Cell Function Oxidative Stress Sterility   Targeting Transfection In Vivo Characterizations: Pharmacokinetics Toxicology *You may see terms in caNanoLab that are not defined in the help glossary. These have been added by curators as [other]; they may be reviewed and defined at a later time.

3. To execute the search, click the Search button.

   Info
   title No parameters?
   Include Page No parameter search No parameter search

4. To clear all fields and start again, click the Reset button.

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1. On the Basic Sample Search page, opened as described in 3 - Managing Samples in caNanoLab 2.1 DRAFT, click the Advanced Search link in the upper right corner of the page.

2. On the Advanced Sample Search page, define criteria for the following categories:

   Advanced Search Category	Description
   Sample Criteria	Select an option in the first drop-down list. Select from the second drop-down, Contains (for search using partial text) or Equals (for exact text search). Enter complete or partial text in the text box.
   Composition Criteria	Select an option in the first drop-down list. Your selection drives the options that display in the second drop-down as well as the options or text box that displays for the rest of the category. Select from the second drop-down, Contains (for partial text search) or Equals (for exact text search). Select your options or enter appropriate text in the text box. Note: Chemical name is optional. Available terms are defined in the caNanoLab Glossary.
   Characterization Criteria	Select a Characterization Type in the first drop-down list. Your selection drives the options that display in the second drop-down as well as the options or text boxes that displays for the rest of the category. The last text box is either a boolean value or number value, depending on the third drop-down list. An optional drop-down box for units displays only if the data has a unit. Select your options or enter appropriate text in the text box(es). Available terms are defined in the caNanoLab Glossary.

3. Click Add to each set of criteria you define. As you add criteria, they display in a table above the criteria fields on the page. Click Reset to clear the fields.
4. Select the And or Or operand at the bottom of each set of criteria when you enter more than one criteria in a set. And or Or determines whether, for the set, the search finds samples that meet all of the criteria or that meet any one of the criteria.
5. Select the And or Or operand at the bottom of the page that determines whether the search finds samples that meet only all of the criteria or that meet any one of the criteria.
6. To clear all fields and start again, click the Reset button.
7. To execute the search, click the Search button.

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