Synapse is an environment for sharing data, results, methods and tools. It is a place that helps you track your analysis steps and publish your results to collaborators.
The Synapse web portal is organized around the concept of a Project. A Project is a place where you can share information, data, and analysis methods with a specific group of users or broadly across open collaborations. Multiple tools are in place to add functionality to workspaces within a Project: Study and data information, external links, images and much more can be added through a wiki. Folders and files within Synapse form a virtual file system that can be used to organize Project content, even when the underlying data, code, and tools reside on multiple systems. Data accessed through Synapse may be stored anywhere: Amazon S3, your local filesystem, GitHub etc. Synapse is designed to allow users to bundle together and publish the relationships, annotations, and descriptions of files that may live in multiple locations. Data versioning and Provenance graphs enable tracking of all steps in an analysis, what version of data was used in each analysis step, and by whom and when any data modification have taken place. A Project can be created by anyone with a Synapse account and can be made Public and shared between all users, or kept Private where content is restricted to a specific group. With a Synapse account you have access to data, tools, and results from Public Projects and data in Projects that have been created by or shared specifically with you. Data and tools from Projects you have access to are easily reused in new Projects you create or participate in.
Various interesting analysis projects are being hosted here:
