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Tutorial: Annotating your first dataset

Welcome! This tutorial will help you annotate a dataset using the Instrument Data Wizard, in preparation for ingestion into Instrument Data Service.

Example

This tutorial will follow a fictional scenario. You are Sarah , a PhD student collecting data for your cancer genomics research, and you would like to store that data in your University's instrument data repository.

What is the Instrument Data Wizard?

If you're not familiar with what Instrument Data Service and Instrument Data Wizard do, and how they work together, check out this first.

By the end of this tutorial, you will learn about the Instrument Data Wizard and Instrument Data Service, and how to:

  • decide on a structure for your data for Instrument Data Service.
  • import data files into the Instrument Data Wizard and add structure to it.
  • annotate your data with metadata
  • restrict access to your data or subset of the data
  • export the metadata

If you want to follow along on your computer, please install Instrument Data Wizard, download the tutorial data, and unzip it on your desktop. This data will be used in the rest of the tutorial.

Download the tutorial-data.zip file here

Contact Chris Seal if you need assistance getting set up on Instrument Data Service.

Ready? Let's begin!