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You must have all your experiment data readily accessible on your computer (i.e., not archived or compressed). The data should preferably be consolidated into a single location (i.e., a folder containing every single IDF, SDRF, TXT, and TSV file from the experiment). You will also need an archive creation utility installed on your computer. In this tutorial, we will use WinZip (www.winzip.com), but any comparable utility with support for the ZIP format will do.

Getting Started – Preparing Data for Upload

In preparing your data for upload, the first step is to find all the files associated with a given IDF file. To so, open any of the IDF files from your experiment in Microsoft Excel or another application suited for viewing tab-limited data. The partial screenshot below shows the first of twelve IDF files from our example experiment as viewed in Excel.

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