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  1. Open the investigation you want to download.
    The Investigation Details page appears.
  2. Click the Download Full Data button.
    Your browser prompts you to open or save full_archive.zip.

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    If you have already downloaded the full data from another investigation, the new file will automatically be called full_archive1.zip, full_archive2.zip, and so on. It is therefore It may be useful to rename the .zip file as you save it to to include the name of the investigation so that you can identify it more easily. For example, miRNA_full.zip.


    Open Full Archive in FireFox

    Warning

    While it is compressed as a .zip file, this file may still be very large. Consider its size before downloading.

  3. Follow your browser's instructions to open or save the file.

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  1. Filter a study or an assay until you reach a selection of investigation data you are interested in downloading. You may be interested in only the metadata so that you can see how that selection of entities was structured.
  2. Click Download Selected Metadata.
    Your browser prompts you to open or save the .zip file.
    FireFox open or save download dialog box

    Info

    If you have already downloaded selected data from another entity in the portal, the new file will automatically be called metadata1.zip, metadata2.zip, and so on. It is therefore It may be useful to rename the .zip file as you save it to to include the name of the investigation so that you can identify it more easily. For example, miRNA_metadata.zip.


    Follow your browser's instructions to open or save the file.

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    titleMetadata File Contents

    The metadata file is in compressed format. It contains one folder called metadata and a text file for each of the following: assay, investigation, and study. The contents of the archive folder look similar to the following (10290 is just an example of the file identifier):

    metadata/

       a_10290.txt

       i_10290.txt

       s_10290.txt

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