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What’s new in SAMSON 2024 - Collaboration#

This is Part V of What’s new in SAMSON 2024, the release notes for SAMSON 2024.

Accessing collaboration features on SAMSON Connect#

With SAMSON 2024, SAMSON Connect (https://www.samson-connect.net) introduces a series of new features for collaboration.

These new features are accessible from your User menu on SAMSON Connect:

User menu

Here is an overview of the new functionalities:

  • Profile: you now have the possibility to create a user profile and make it public.
  • Groups: you can create an unlimited number of public or private groups, invite others, manage applications, etc.
  • Documents: you can upload an unlimited number of public or private documents on SAMSON Connect (the total size limit varies based on your SAMSON plan), and you can control who you share these documents with.
  • Jobs: the jobs you run in the cloud from SAMSON (e.g., using AlphaFold, NVIDIA BioNeMo services, GROMACS, etc.) are now accessible from SAMSON Connect, and you can control who has access to them.

Editing your Profile#

You can now create a public profile with a public handle of your choice (act quickly to reserve yours!), an extensive bio (20,000 characters allowed!), and links to your social networks (LinkedIn, 𝕏, ResearchGate, GitHub, etc.).

Go to Profile to edit your profile:

Edit user profile

You can use Markdown to format your biography and include titles, links, images, etc.

If public, your profile becomes accessible on SAMSON Connect:

Public profile example

Creating and managing groups#

You can now create an unlimited number of private or public groups to easily share documents, jobs, extensions, etc.

Go to Groups to manage your groups, including the ones you own or the ones you belong to:

Groups on SAMSON Connect

Provided you are a group owner, editing a group is similar to editing your profile. You can control the group visibility, as well as how others join your group:

Edit groups

Being a group owner also lets you edit group memberships. In particular, you can change group roles and membership end dates:

Edit membership in groups

To add a new member to the group, click the Add a member button and search by username, full name or email address:

Add a new group member

If the invitee does not yet have a SAMSON account, you can still invite them by entering their email address and clicking Add.

Uploading and sharing documents#

SAMSON 2024 makes it possible to upload documents to SAMSON Connect while controlling the document visibility:

Share a document from SAMSON

On SAMSON Connect, you can manage the documents you published and the ones that have been shared with you by clicking Documents in your user menu:

Manage shared documents on SAMSON Connect

If you are a document owner or document editor, you can edit the document settings:

Edit document description on SAMSON Connect

If you are a document owner, you can also edit who can access the document by controlling its visibility (Public, Hidden or Restricted):

Edit document access on SAMSON Connect

and grant access rights to users:

Add document access rights to a user

or directly to groups:

Add document access rights to a group

Viewing and sharing jobs on SAMSON Connect#

The jobs you run in the cloud from SAMSON (e.g., using AlphaFold, NVIDIA BioNeMo services, GROMACS, etc.) are now accessible from SAMSON Connect, and you can control who has access to them.

Like documents, a job can either be Public, Hidden (a link is needed to download the files) or Restricted (specific access rights must be granted to access the files or edit the job details).

By default, a job visibility is automatically set to Restricted.

On SAMSON Connect, you can manage the jobs you created and the ones that have been shared with you by clicking Jobs in your user menu:

Manage cloud jobs on SAMSON Connect

By clicking on a job, you can directly access the job files:

View cloud job files on SAMSON Connect

and you can use the context menu to download job files:

Download cloud job files

As with documents, you can edit the job details (name and notes) when you are a job owner or job editor.

Similarly, you can grant access rights to a user or a group when you are a job owner.

Get SAMSON#

This is an overview, and SAMSON 2024 also provides a variety of new features and fixes of reported issues. SAMSON 2024 also incorporates updates in default extensions released after the previous release.

If you have any feedback or suggestions feel free to reach out via the Forum, via e-mail, by using the Feedback button in SAMSON, or by directly discussing with us.

If you already have SAMSON, just restart it and you will be offered to update: follow the steps and your installation will be upgraded to the latest SAMSON.

If not, create your free account and download SAMSON! You'll be all set and ready to go within a few minutes.