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DataHub Documentation

About DataHub

DataHub is a web platform designed to facilitate the management of sample metadata. It aims to help scientists and research groups better document samples throughout experimental steps, ensuring compliance with the requirements of research core facilities, end-repositories, or any other standard metadata.

DataHub is based on the FAIRDOM-SEEK software (previously known as SEEK) and shares the same documentation. Consequently, the general user guide includes documentation about FAIRDOM-SEEK features that might not be available in DataHub by design.

For more specific documentation related to DataHub, users should follow the step-by-step guides provided below or have a look at the example on how to manage your research in DataHub.

Step-by-step guides

For instance admins

If you would like to deploy your own instance of DataHub, follow this guide to get an overview of the features you need to enable in the admin panel.

About FAIRDOM-SEEK

The FAIRDOM-SEEK platform is a web-based resource for sharing heterogeneous scientific research datasets, models or simulations, processes and research outcomes. More details about SEEK can be found on the FAIRDOM-SEEK Website.

For an example of FAIRDOM-SEEK please visit our Demo.

Get FAIRDOM-SEEK

To find out how to install FAIRDOM-SEEK on your own machine, or install FAIRDOM-SEEK as a Virtual Machine, please go to our Get FAIRDOM-SEEK page.


User guide

Latest User Guide

General documentation on how to use and administer DataHub can be found in our User Guide.

API documentation

Details on how to get started using the Application Programme Interface (API) can be found in the API Introduction .

Archived help and guidelines

We also have other information for topics related to FAIRDOM-SEEK, including Metadata, ISA, and controlled vocabularies, which can be found in our archive of help and guidelines.


Technical references

For more detailed information about installation and upgrading, please see our Technical and Reference documentation.


Contacting and contributions

There are contact details, should you wish to ask a question or make a suggestion.

We also welcome contributions, so please visit our Contributors Guide.


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