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• Click Projects at the top of the page
• Click Import project 
  
  

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• Choose GEO / ENA project for Select files from 
• Type the BioProject ID or the GEO Accession number

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 The format of a BioProject ID is PRJNA followed by one to six numbers (e.g., PRJNA291540). The format of a GEO Accession number is GSE followed by one to five numbers  (e.g., GSE71578). 

• Click Import project 

Imported projects from GEO / ENA

The data tab will be populated with sample information. Sample names will be GSM IDs for each sample. Attributes and attribute levels are drawn from the GEO sample characteristics information (Figure 3).

Project details are added to the Project settings tab (Figure 4). The project name is the first 54 characters taken from the BioProject ID title. The project description is the BioProject description with the GEO ID and BioProject IDs appended.

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The Analyses tab will include an Unaligned reads data node once the data download has started (Figure 53). It may take a while for the download to complete depending on the size of the data. FASTQ files are downloaded from the ENA BioProject page. 

Common Issues

Error Message - The project did not yield any data. Double-check the project ID, or try importing the data manually

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You can search ENA using the GEO ID (e.g., GSE71578) to check if there is a matching ENA project (Figure 6).  

Open the Study result to view the BioProject ID (e.g., PRJNA381606) and a table with information about the samples and files included in the project (Figure 7). 

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