Data Upload Checklist

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Before you begin your data upload to Sage, make sure the following things have been done:

You have passed the certification quiz (required to upload data).
The appropriate governance documents have been signed.
You have submitted a study description.
You have submitted a methods description for each assay type.
You have submitted an acknowledgement statement (for AD Portal uploads only).
You have one individual metadata file, one biospecimen file and one manifest.
You have a metadata file for each type of assay data (ex: one for RNAseq, one for ChIPseq).
All of your individuals are represented by a row in the individual metadata file.
All of your biospecimens are represented by a row in the biospecimen file.
The columns in your metadata files that use controlled values have the correct values.
Your controlled values exactly match the values in our metadata dictionary.
No columns have been deleted, even if they are empty (no values).
Cells that have no values are blank and do not contain NA or NULL.
Your metadata files are listed in the manifest.
Your data files are listed in the manifest.
Your individual, biospecimen, and assay files are saved as a .csv file.
Your manifest file is saved as a tab-delimited .txt file.
Your metadata files and manifest were validated together in the validator.
You have installed either the Python clientsynapseutils or R clientsynapserutils to upload files with syncToSynapse .