Synapse Web Client Home

Synapse (https://www.synapse.org/) lets researchers organize and share research artifacts (data, code, analyses and documents) relevant to research collaboration and publication, across the web. The artifacts can be annotated with metadata (both free-form and using an ontology) to provide additional description and facilitate search. An oversimplified description of Synapse is "a shared document management system", but it has carefully chosen features that make it much more useful. For instance, there is a published web (REST) interface exposing all of the back end functionality. Therefore anything you can do through the web interface can be done through other "clients". For example you can upload data through the web interface, then retrieve it directly into an analysis session using the Synapse R client.

The code in this project is simply the web based client to the core Synapse REST services.

The Synapse Web Client documentation can be found here. If you have found a bug or want to follow our issue tracking, our JIRA site is here.

Check out our documentation site or email us at [email protected]