Alternative to Sage Synapse

Question

[Danielk]

Hi all,

Sage Synapse is a very nice tool for data sharing within project as well as making data public, like in the TCGA pan can project.

We've a project with data that we're not allowed to upload to synapse however, but would still like to use is in house. It does seem to be open source, at least in part and available at github. I have not been able to find clear installation instruction, however.

Are there alternatives out there? Specifically, I want to

• up-, download files programmatically
• version control the files
• allow users access to specific files
• create relationships/provenances between files
• built-in wiki is nice

thanks for any input,
Daniel

[mike.kellen]

Synapse is developed as a software-as-a-service offering, and build to run on AWS. Porting off this infrastructure would be quite difficult at this point and we don't currently have the engineering resources to support this.

It is possible to store store files externally and use the hosted version of Synapse to get much of the same functionality. Let us know at [e-mail] if you want to talk more.

Answer 1

[Sukhi Singh]

What about http://www.redmine.org/, if might not suffice for large data files, unless you use some plugin or external file server integration.
It has `Git` and `wiki` and you can restrict users to specific files and projects.