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1. Click the Samples menu.

   The Manage Samples page displays.

2. Click Create a New Sample.

3. On the Create Sample page, fill in the following information as needed.

   Name	Definition
   Anchor Sample Page Sample Page Sample Name*	Enter a sample name of your choice (required).
   Point of Contact*	The Point of Contact Add button is not available unless you entered a Sample Name (required). To add a point of contact, click Add. Select an Organization Name from the

   drop-down

   list or select Other and add one. Select a Role in the same manner. Fill in the address, name, phone number, and email. Click Cancel or click Save to return and the POC is added. To edit a point of contact, click Edit next to the POC, update the information, and click Save.

4. Click Save.

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   title My Workspace
   After saving, the sample is listed on the My Workspace where you can manage all of your submitted samples, and view any samples that a user has shared with you.

5. Once you save the sample, the Update Sample page opens. With the appropriate security permissions you can

• • Update the sample information.

  • Share a sample.
  • Make it public

  • Generate a data availability metrics for the sample.

  • Annotate the sample from the Navigation Tree.

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Updating a Sample

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1. Click the Samples menu.
   The Manage Samples page displays.

2. Click Search Existing Samples.

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3. From the Sample Search page, fill in the following search criteria as needed. 

   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.

   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]  include	Other options	Other options
   Characterization Type/Characterization	Click the drop-down list on the left and select the characterization type that applies to the sample to be searched: Physico-Chemical, In Vitro or , In Vivo, Ex Vivo, or Other Ex VV. 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 *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.

4. Click Search.

   For information about the search results, see Sample Search Results.

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1. Click the Samples menu.
   The Manage Samples page displays.

2. Click Advanced Sample Search.

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3. From the Sample Search page, fill in the search criteria as needed.

   Advanced Search Category	Description
   Sample Criteria	Select an option in the first drop-down list. Select from the second drop-downlist, 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-downlist, as well as the options or text box that displays for the rest of the category. Select from the second drop-downlist, Contains (for partial text search) or Equals (for exact text search). Select your options or enter appropriate text in the text box. The Chemical name is optional.
   Characterization Criteria	Select a Characterization Type in the first drop-down list. Your selection drives the options that display in the second drop-down list 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 list for units displays only if the data has a unit. Select your options or enter appropriate text in the text box(es).

4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Click Search.
   

   For information about the search results, see Sample Search Results.

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