Contributing Data

Overview

This is possibly the reason you’re using the ELITE Portal in the first place—to share your data. First of all, thank you!! You’re participating in open science and contributing to the advancement of exceptional longevity research.

If you would like to submit data to the ELITE Portal, steps to do so are outlined below.

Sharing data involves the following actions, to be completed in order:

1. Prepare for Data Submission: This involves assembling the necessary data, metadata, and supporting information that we will ask you submit in the subsequent steps for contributing data.

2. Become Synapse Certified: The EL DMCC will create a Team on Synapse for you and add you and other team members to the appropriate project(s). Once your Team is created, it will appear in your Synapse profile here.

3. Upload your data: The EL DMCC will designate a project and staging (private) folders in Synapse to house your data. Once these are established, you are ready to upload your project’s data.

4. Annotate your data: This involves labeling your files with metadata so users can easily find and filter for the data they need when exploring data on the portal.

5. Release data: Once your data are successfully uploaded and annotated, it will go through several checks to prepare for public release. Releases happen at the end of every month.