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What is ISA-Tab?

Investigation-Study-Assay tab-delimited format (ISA-Tab) is a format based on the ISA-TAB specification that is used to capture and communicate the complex metadata required to interpret investigations (experiments) employing combinations of technologies. Metadata in ISA-Tab format facilitates standards-compliant collection, curation, management, and reuse of datasets in a wide variety of life science domains. ISA-TAB builds on the existing paradigm that is Microarray Gene Expression - Tabular format (MAGE-TAB)-a tab-delimited format to exchange microarray data.

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1. Navigate to the CSSI DCC Portal.
   The home page appears.
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2. Click Login.
   The Please Sign In page appears.
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3. Click Register.
   The Registration page appears.
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4. Provide information in all of the following required fields:
   • First name
   • Last name
   • Institution
   • Email address
   • Password
   • Confirm password

   When deciding what to use as a password, refer to Password Guidelines.

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.
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   The system sends to the specified email address an email notification with "CSSI DCC Portal Account Activation" as the subject line. 

8. To complete account activation, click the link in the message. If you requested the ability to upload investigation data, an administrator processes your request. When that administrator has approved your request, the system sends to the specified email address an email notification with "CSSI DCC Portal Request Permission Request: Upload Approved" as the subject line.

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