On this page we briefly show main pages of the ODM: Dashboard, Study Browser, Metadata Editor.
For more details about Study Browser and Metadata Editor functionality refer to corresponding guide page.
The first thing you see when logging in to Open Data Manager is the Dashboard:
As a regular user the main tasks of interest are searching and browsing studies. Clicking on the Browse studies link from the dashboard takes you to the Study Browser to help you do this.
!!! info "Limitation" Only Studies you have permission to observe (Studies created by you or Studies shared with your group of users by another user) are displayed as default.
There is search and filtering options to help you find studies of interest. Facets in the left hand panel of the Study Browser and Search bar allow you to search by study name, accession or by any value presented in any metadata field.
!!! tip Harmonising your Study and its child entities (Samples, Libraries, Preparations, Data) Metadata values by using configurable validation rules helps you to find all relevant values by preventing missed results due to non-standard terms usage.
The search is also aware of controlled dictionary/ontology and will expand results to include synonyms, with optional
extension to include child terms.
Click on the question mark next to the search bar to open Help with more details about advanced search functionality.
The facets on the left side allow you to filter down the results of a search based on the metadata fields that are presented in your results.
You can find more about Search functionality on Study Browser page of this guide.
To access more details about a study and to explore it further click the name of the study which will launch the Metadata Editor in a new tab.
The Metadata Editor allows you to see all the information about a Study metadata, Samples, Libraries, and Preparations metadata contained in the Study and any Data Classes (signal data and attached files) associated with the Study, for example, expression or variant data.
You can find more about this functionality on Metadata Editor page of this guide.