Upload Input Data

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 10 min

Questions

• How do I upload input data?

Objectives

• Explain the file format and upload process.

All Tools in NSG Portal take input code/data in the form of a zip archive.

To create a zip archive from an existing directory, do the following:

$ cd datadir
$ cd ..
$ zip -r input datadir

This should create an input.zip file. That file would be selected for upload to NSG Portal in the data upload process.

This file (or one downloaded from relica_demo_10.zip) can be used as input. The relica job is from Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at UCSD. A tutorial for running this analysis is available.

Log in to your NSG account at the Login Page. Create a Folder.

Folders contain sections for Data and Tasks.

Go to the Data section and click on Upload Data, then browse to the desired input.zip file and confirm.

The file should show up in the data list.

Key Points

• File format is zip.

• The directory structure of the zip archive must contain one subdirectory that contains the input data.