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Uploading Investigation-Study-Assay tab-delimited (ISA-TAB) investigation data to the CSSI DCC Portal allows you to curate, manage, and reuse datasets in a standards-compliant way. The ISA-TAB specification

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describes this standard and how to structure your investigation data to create an Investigation-Study-Assay tab-delimited (ISA-TAB) archive file. This may involve configuring it using open-source software
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An ISA-TAB archive file is a compressed (.ZIP) file containing multiple text files and data files. Each tab-delimited text file in an ISA-TAB file describes the structure, meaning the column headers and row values when considered in spreadsheet format, of the investigation, study, and assay components of the archive. The data files correspond to each assay and are included in the archive in their native format, for example, Microsoft Excel. An ISA-TAB file may also contain images.

Users who are Only users who have registered and logged in to the CSSI DCC Portal can upload ISA-TAB data. Before you upload a ISA data to this repository, you must create and configure it using open-source software

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Registering to Use the CSSI DCC Portal

Before you can log in for the first time, you must register.

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  1. Navigate to the CSSI DCC Portal.
    The home page appears.
  2. Click Login.
    The Please Sign In page appears.
  3. Click Register.
    The Registration page appears.
  4. Provide information in all of the following required fields:
    • First name
    • Last name
    • Institution
    • Email address
    • Password
    • Confirm password
  5. If you want to upload investigation data to the CSSI DCC portal in the future, select the I would like to upload investigation data box. Doing so ensures that your future submissions are correctly tracked.
  6. Select the I'm not a robot box.
  7. Click Register.
    A message box appears.
  8. Check your inbox for an email with the subject line "CSSI DCC Account Activation." Click the link in the email to complete account activation.
  9. Get started using the CSSI DCC Portal.

Logging In to the CSSI DCC Portal

Before you can upload investigation data, you must register and then log in.

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  1. Navigate to the CSSI DCC Portal.
    The home page appears.
  2. Click Login.
    The Please Sign In page appears.
  3. Enter your email address and password you specified when you registered.
  4. Click Sign In.
    The CSSI DCC Portal home page appears.

Uploading an ISA-TAB File

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Note

Files that you upload to the portal must be in one of the following archive formats: .zip, .rar, .tar, or .gz. Each file must be no larger than 500 MB.

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