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Creating Drafts and Uploading Datasets

To begin analyzing datasets, you must first create a draft publication.

  1. Select your username in the top right corner to expand your user actions menu and select Create Publication Draft.

    The user actions menu with the "Create Publication Draft" option highlighted
  2. Enter the Title and Description and click Save Draft to make a new draft publication.

    Create publication draft screen with a form prompting for a publication draft name and description.
  3. Select the Upload button in the top right corner or + button at the bottom right of the page to open the upload panel.

    The draft publication with both upload buttons highlighted
  4. Click Select or drop files directly onto the panel to select datasets for upload or click Upload from URL and enter the link to the file. Once you have selected compatible AnnData files, click Start Uploading.

  1. The status of the upload will be visible on the draft page as it is received and processed.

    The notification panel with upload status.
  2. Once the upload is complete and has been processed by the system, the dataset will appear in the publication draft, ready for editing and publishing.

    The publication draft page now has a dataset card representing the uploaded dataset. This card can be used to access the full dataset information.
  3. You can modify the order of the datasets from the edit page by clicking Reorder and dragging the datasets to the desired order.