Organization: The highest level of the data hierarchy. One organization can have several projects, but every project must have organization. There are two permission roles that connect to the organization: Org admin and org member. Org admins and org members can access every organizations’ project.

Project: To group samples into projects GeoSeeq supports projects. Projects are quite literally just groups of samples. Samples may belong to many different groups to support different analyses and sub-group analyses with the only restrictions being related to privacy. Project can have several samples. But every sample must have a project. There is one permission role that connects to the project: Guest. The guest role has two types: Guest with Read and Guest with Read/Write permissions.

Sample: Container entity. It can contain several folders.

Folder: Samples contain folders which represent either raw data from the sample or results derived from analysis of that data. An example of this could be the raw reads from paired-end DNA sequencing of a sample. The raw reads would be stored in a Folder with two Files, one each for the forward and reverse reads. Each Files could point to a file stored on the cloud or, for results that require less storage, be stored directly in GeoSeeq.You can organize your sample-related project files in folders. One of the folder can contain the sample files with fastq or fq files.

Project folder: Projects may also contain Project Folder. In this case Project Folders are used to represent anything that applies to all the samples at once. An example would be a pairwise distance matrix between all samples in a dataset.

File: The lowest level of the data hierarchy. The files can be DNA files, app result files, or anything else that is uploaded to the project.