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ARC Commander QuickStart (Experts)

About this guide

Section titled About this guide

In this guide we focus on how to use the ARC Commander to create your ARC and structure, store and share your data.

Before we can start

Section titled Before we can start

☑️ You know how to use a command line ☑️ You have created an ARC before
☑️ The latest version of the ARC Commander is installed on your computer
☑️ You have a DataPLANT account
☑️ Your computer is linked to the DataHUB via personal access token

:rocket: Voila! You are ready to follow these few steps to create a minimal ARC sharable via DataPLANT’s DataHUB.

Two minutes to your ARC

Section titled Two minutes to your ARC
Terminal window
# Create and navigate to your ARC folder
mkdir <path/to/YourARCFolder>
cd <path/to/YourARCFolder>


# Setup the ARC structure with one study and one assay
arc init -i <YourInvestigationID>
arc assay add -s <YourStudyID> -a <YourAssayID>


arc sync -f -r https://git.nfdi4plants.org/<YourUserName>/<YourARC> -m "initialize ARC structure"

💡 Make sure that no ARC exists at https://git.nfdi4plants.org/<YourUserName>/<YourARC>. Otherwise you will sync to that ARC.

💡 The last command will prompt an Error ERROR: GIT: fatal: repository 'https://git.nfdi4plants.org/<YourUserName>/<YourARC>' not found (Windows) or ERROR: GIT: fatal: couldn't find remote ref main (macOS). Don’t worry, the ARC is being created at that DataHUB during this step.