Synapse
Our cloud-based data platform, Synapse, provides users with a state-of-the-art toolkit for secure data storage, ethical sharing, open collaboration and research communication. Built by researchers, for researchers.
Launch SynapseFeatures
Share
Synapse is a suite of web services that enables researchers to aggregate, organize, analyze and share their scientific data, code and insights.
Designed specifically with FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles in mind, Synapse also provides HIPAA-compliant governance controls, ensuring that data can be shared ethically and responsibly while safeguarding patient privacy.
Reuse
The technology integrates seamlessly into existing workflows so that data can be openly accessed, queried and transformed.
Synapse leverages public platforms and tools, including cloud storage and compute, data repositories, data visualization tools, and analytical clients.
Collaborate
Synapse “teams” enable scientists to initiate and manage productive collaborations, while the platform’s Wiki services afford content embedding and provenance records to effectively communicate research findings.
From small teams through to large-scale initiatives, Synapse powers multidisciplinary communities to exchange data, formulate new ideas and collectively advance groundbreaking discoveries.
Testimonials
“Synapse has been instrumental in our research, providing a harmonized platform for sharing our own data, as well as reusing data from other studies. It has multiplied our ability to analyze larger data sets that we ourselves can generate, allowing us to derive exciting new insights.”
Vilas Menon, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University, USA
Testimonials
“Synapse makes accessing data and metadata such a smooth process. It is not uncommon for researchers to wait weeks to get data or cloud access for a project, but with Synapse I had great data infrastructure right from the word go.”
Hui Xin Ng
PhD researcher, UC San Diego, USA
Testimonials
“Synapse allows us to share our data easily and responsibly with collaborators worldwide, as well as with the broader research community. Its interface is so efficient for accessing stable datasets, and offers tools that can reproduce our own analyses and help the reuse of our data.”
Gregory Carter, PhD
Professor, The Jackson Laboratory, USA
Plans
Basic Plan
Designed for researchers to share and reference open-access datasets in published studies.
Free data hosting (up to 100GB) and the ability to mint a DOI.
Self-Managed Plan
Tailored to investigators submitting NIH data management and sharing (DMS) plans, involving medium/large-scale datasets.
Proactive DMS planning assistance, in-depth provenance tracking and meticulous governance support to ensure ethical, responsible sharing.
Data Coordination Plan
Fully managed project set-up, access and documentation for multi-center research consortia.
Unlimited data allowance and end-to-end project support, with a unique portal interface and customized governance controls.