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Welcome to the HCA Data Store wiki! See also the HCA Data Coordination Platform wiki.

The HCA Data Store will provide a multi-site cloud-based storage system for all Human Cell Atlas data, including raw data, metadata, and certain forms of derived data from vetted secondary analysis pipelines.

One of the key goals of the platform is to ensure simple and open access to Human Cell Atlas data. For that reason, all data in the Data Store will be open to the public, and replicated across multiple cloud providers. Researchers will be able to access data directly through the Data Store’s Consumer API, or through Tertiary Portals providing query interfaces, visualization tools, and other forms of data access. Data will be submitted to the Data Store only through the Ingestion Service.

Getting started

• Read our Engineering Onboarding Documentation

Google Drive

Project documents are available at Google Drive folder. Post a message on Slack to request write access.

Functional Specs

• Data Storage System Functional Spec and Use Cases v0.1.0
• Data Storage System Sync Functional Spec and Use Cases v0.1.0
• Data Storage System Index and Event Notification Functional Spec and Use Cases v0.1.0

Implementation Details

• Cloud Capability Matrix
• Indexing, Search and Event Notification for Multiple Metadata Schema Versions
• Reindexing

Slack Chat

• https://humancellatlas.slack.com/messages/data-store - go to https://join-hca-slack.data.humancellatlas.org/ to get access to HCA Slack.
• Join the #data-store Slack channel

Weekly Meetings

• Data Store weekly meeting: Friday 8amPDT/11amEDT/4pmBST/5pmCEST
• Meeting notes
• Post a message on Slack to request an invite.