Uploading Investigation-Study-Assay tab-delimited (ISA-TAB) data to the CSSI DCC data portal allows you to curate, manage, and reuse datasets in a standards-compliant way. The ISA-TAB specification describes this standard and how to structure your ISA data to create an ISA-TAB archive file. 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 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 made for this purpose.
Before you can log in for the first time, you must register.
To register on the CSSI DCC Data Portal
Before you can log in for the first time, you must register. This procedure includes both the registration and log in steps. You must log in before you can upload ISA data
Files that you upload to the portal must be in one of the following archive formats: |
To upload an ISA-TAB archive file
Select the file you want to upload by either
dragging and dropping the ISA-TAB archive file from your computer to the File box, or
clicking Add files to navigate to where the file is stored.
Template files must be in one of the following archive formats: .zip
,.rar
,.tar
,.gz
. The file can be no larger than 500 MB.