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About this guide

Section titled About this guide

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

Before we can start

Section titled Before we can start

Please make sure

☑️ The latest version of the ARCitect is installed on your computer
☑️ You have a DataPLANT account
💡 Consider reading about the ARC

Preparation

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Before creating your own ARC, invest some time to think about the following questions.

  • What is my investigation?
  • What is my study?
  • Which assay did I perform?
    • What is my (raw) dataset?
    • What protocols did I use?

💡 It might help to have this info ready in a text file. In particular, try to think about useful names (identifiers) for investigation, study and assay.

Quick overview of the ARCitects GUI layout

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In this video you will get a quick overview of the ARCitects GUI layout:

Initiate the ARC folder structure

Section titled Initiate the ARC folder structure

In this video you will learn how to use the ARCitect to create a new arc:

Your ARC’s name

Section titled Your ARC’s name

💡 By default, your ARC’s name will be used:

  1. for the ARC folder on your machine
  2. to create your ARC in the DataHUB at https://git.nfdi4plants.org/<YourUserName>/<YourARC> (see next steps)
  3. as the identifier for your investigation

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

💡 Avoid spaces and special characters in your ARC’s name

In this video you will see an illustration of the points mentioned:

Add details about your investigation

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In this video you will learn how to add details about your investigation using the ARCitect:

Add contributors

Section titled Add contributors

In this video you will learn how to add information such as contact information to your investigation:

Add a study to your ARC

Section titled Add a study to your ARC

In this video, we will see how you can add a study to your ARC:

Add details about your study

Section titled Add details about your study

In this video you will learn how to add details about your study:

Adding protocols to your study

Section titled Adding protocols to your study

In this video you can learn how you can add Protocols to our study:

Add an assay to your ARC

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In this video, you can learn how you can add an assay to your ARC:

Add information about your assay

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In this video we will see how we can add details about our assay:

Add protocols to your assay

Section titled Add protocols to your assay

In this video you will learn how you can add Protocols to an assay:

Add datasets to your assay

Section titled Add datasets to your assay

In this video you will learn how you can add datasets to an assay:

Share your ARC

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In this video we will learn how we can authenticate ourselves using the architect to access Data Hub resources:

Commit your local state

Section titled Commit your local state

In this video we will learn how we can create snapshots (a.k.a. commits) capturing the current state of our ARC:

Upload your ARC to the DataHUB

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In this video you will learn how to push your local commit to the cloud a.k.a. the DataHUB:

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Check if your ARC is successfully uploaded

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  1. sign in to the DataHUB
  2. Check your projects