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You can search investigations, studies, and assays using any keyword. You can download selected files, the entire data archive, or only the metadata associated with a study. You can also upload and publish your own investigation data to the portal and make it open access. (For more information, refer to Uploading Investigation Data and Making it Open Access.)

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After reaching an investigation entity (such as investigation, study, assay, source, protocol, sample, or data file), you can download the full data, selected metadata, or selected data associated with that entity. The full data is always associated with the investigation as a whole. All of the data currently in the portal is public. 

Also note that if you selected multiple objects to visualize and filter, a download includes all of those objects.

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