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The "Create link" button will let you generate a unique URL link. Copy that link and send to the colleague you'd like to share the collection with. This person will be able to browse this collection. When you no longer wish to share that collection using the generated unique link, simply use the "Delete link" button to remove this possibility. The URL you shared will no longer work.

Importing sample collections

The MetaBiobank service offers the ability to import external sample collections from files. If you have a CSV file with information concerning individual samples (one sample per row), you can use the automated import facility to import it into one of your existing biobanks. This is done by clicking the Upload samples tab in the biobank management panel. The service will present you with a page where you need to specify the name of the collection your samples will be uploaded to (a new collection will be created automatically if the selected collection doesn't yet exist) and choose a file stored on your hard drive to read samples from.

We are aware of the fact that not exports are created equal and may include different types of data regarding samples (expressed as individual columns in your CSV file). In order to enable your data to be imported in a meaningful fashion, MetaBiobank asks you - as the second step in the import process - to specify a mapping between CSV columns and metadata terms specified by the MIABIS biobank description standard. Clicking Upload will validate your file and take you to the next step in the import process where you can either specify an existing mapping or create a new one. A mapping is a collection of column/term assignments where column is one of the data columns in your CSV file while term is one of the available MIABIS terms. For example, if you assign column named 'Data pobrania' to the MIABIS term Sampled date, the MetaBiobank service will assume that all values of this column in the CSV file indicate the dates on which each sample was taken.

Note that while MetaBiobank will do its best to analyze and properly parse the data present in your CSV file, we cannot guarantee that a sensible match for a meaningful MIABIS value can be made in each case (for example - the date field may be blank or formatted in a way which the MetaBiobank service does not understand). In all such cases the 'problematic' data items will be copied to a separate field in the sample description. We have named this field Comments and it can later be used to retrieve data which the data import facility could not appropriately parse.

How to contact authors

In case of further questions or if you are interested in cooperation with our team, please contact us by e-mail. If you wish to file a bug report or describe a feature request, please use the PL-Grid Helpdesk system. The MetaBiobank service is developed, delivered and maintained by ACC Cyfronet AGH and LifeScience Kraków Cluster.