Sharing on Explore

Explore lists datasets anyone can open. Next to our curated collection there is a Community section: datasets people submitted from their own accounts and an admin approved.

The path to Explore

  1. 1Sign inWith Google, or with a code sent to your email.
  2. 2Have the dataset in your accountUpload it, save a preview, or add one you host.
  3. 3Describe itTitle, species, tissue, authors, a thumbnail…
  4. 4Submit and get reviewedAn admin approves it, and it appears on Explore.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Sign in

    Use Sign In at the top right of any page, with Google or with a one-time code sent to your email. Your datasets are then under your name → Your datasets.

  2. 2

    Get the dataset into your account

    Any of these makes you its owner:

    You haveHow
    Raw dataUpload it with Upload & process on server.
    A preview open in your browserPress Upload & Save in the viewer.
    Data on your own public bucketOpen it with Load from S3, then Add to my account on the banner. Nothing is copied.
  3. 3

    Add its details

    In Your datasets, open the dataset and press Edit details. What you fill in is what people see on Explore and what they can filter by:

    • Title and Description
    • Species, Tissue, Platform, Disease, Institute and Tags
    • Source Link and Publication Link
    • Publication details: authors, investigator, co-investigators, institution, age, sex, genotype, technique, funding, year, license and citation

    For a thumbnail, open the dataset in the viewer, frame a view you like, and use Camera controls → Set thumbnail from screenshot.

  4. 4

    Submit to Explore

    On the dataset's page press Submit to Explore, or use the ⋯ menu on its card. Any dataset you own that has finished processing can be submitted.

  5. 5

    Wait for the review

    An admin reviews every submission before it is public. The badge on your card follows it, as shown below.

What happens after you submit

You press Submit to ExploreOn the dataset's page, or in the ⋯ menu on its card.
Pending review
An admin looks at it. Nothing is public yet.
Published on Explore
Listed on Explore under Community (and in All).
Not approved
Hover the badge for the reviewer's note. Change what it asks for and submit again.
The badge on your dataset's card shows where it is. Withdraw from Explore takes it off again at any point.

Once a dataset is published, editing its details and pressing Submit to Explore again updates its Explore listing straight away — it does not go back into review. A submission that is pending or not approved goes back into the queue.

Projects

A project groups datasets that belong together — the cells, molecules and image of one experiment, or the sections of one study. In Your datasets, use Add to project on a dataset (or create a New project there). A project has its own page, details and thumbnail, and can be submitted to Explore as a whole, where it gets its own page listing its datasets.

Uploading cells, molecules and an image together makes a project for you.

Taking it down

Withdraw from Explore removes a dataset or project from Explore; it stays in your account. To delete a dataset you uploaded, open it and press Delete — withdraw it from Explore first if it is there.

Questions, or a dataset you'd like in the curated collection? Open an issue on GitHub.
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