Tutorial: Annotating your first dataset from scratch
Welcome to our tutorial! Here, we’ll guide you through the process of annotating a dataset using the Instrument Data Wizard, getting it ready for ingestion into Instrument Data Service.
Imagine yourself in a fictional scenario: You’re Sarah, a PhD student collecting data for your cancer genomics research, and you want to store this data in your University’s instrument data repository for the first time.
In this tutorial, we’ll provide step-by-step instructions to help you annotate your data effectively from scratch.
What is 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 What is Instrument Data Service and Instrument Data Wizard? 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.
Tutorial data for starting from scratch
Contact Chris Seal if you need assistance getting set up on Instrument Data Service.
Ready? Let’s begin!