Getting Started

Collaborative OPen Omics (COPO) is a website portal where scientists describe their research objects (raw or processed data, reads, samples, images etc.) using community-sanctioned metadata sets and vocabularies [1].

As a metadata broker, COPO encourages data generators to adhere to FAIR [2] principles when submitting research objects.

COPO uses public or institutional repositories like European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) to share the research objects to the wider scientific community.

COPO is developed by a team of Research Software Engineers at the Earlham Institute. It was launched in September 2014 and as a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) funded project as Collaborative Open Plant Omics (COPO) and has since been expanded to include all life sciences.

Contributions are welcomed in the GitHub repository. All contributors must abide by the code of conduct described in the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct section.

Visit the COPO website to make manifest submissions. An ORCID ID is required to access the application.

Visit our News web page to stay updated with the latest developments in the COPO project.

The COPO project website requires cookies, fonts and the limited processing of your personal data in order to function well. By using the portal you are consenting to this. To find out more about how COPO uses cookies and your personal data, please see our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use.

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You can register for an ORCID ID on the ORCID website for free.

Accessing COPO Website

There are two ways to access the COPO website: Demo mode and Production mode.

Navigate to COPO live website to access the production mode or navigate to the COPO demo website to access the demonstration mode.

Note

Production mode is the live version of the COPO application. It is recommended to submit real data to the production mode because the submissions are made to the final repository.
Demo mode is a testing environment for the COPO application. It is not recommended to submit real data to the demo mode because any submissions done are considered test submissions and there will be no submissions to the final repository.

COPO homepage: Click Submit Data button to proceed to the ORCID sign-in form (as shown below)

Alternatively, click Try Demo button to access the demo mode.

COPO homepage: Click Sign in with Orcid.org button to proceed to the ORCID sign-in form (as shown below)

Orcid sign-in form: Enter your Orcid login credentials or click Register now to sign-up for an ORCID account.

If the login is successful, a redirection is made to the COPO application.

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