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Gen3 User Guide

Welcome to the Gen3 User Guide. This guide is for researchers and data scientists who are accessing a Gen3 Data Commons or mesh to locate, access, or analyze data. Please refer to your project-specific documentation (if any) for specifics about your system.

If you are looking to attain a deeper understanding of Gen3 services in order to update or modify them please read the Gen3 Developer Guide. If you are looking to deploy, maintain, configure, or submit data please take a look at the Gen3 Operator Guide.

  • Search for Data - This section includes a walkthrough for how a user can locate data within the Data Portal and by using API or Gen3 SDK tool.
  • Access Data Files - This section includes information on Authentication and Authorization as well as instructions for downloading data files (either externally or from within a Gen3 workspace).
  • Analyze Data - This section covers working with Gen3 workspaces.
  • Data Portal - In this section, we discuss details of each page and how to navigate them in the Gen3 Data Portal.
  • Use the API - In this section, we cover the Gen3 API and how to use it to query and download data and metadata.

Resources

  • The Gen3 Data Hub is an open-access data commons that can be used as an example system. It is highlighted throughout the documentation.
  • The Biomedical Research Hub is an example data mesh that is also used to highlight mesh-specific features.