Collaboration

SAMSON and SAMSON Connect provide various functionalities for collaborative work, from the creation of public or private profiles, groups, documents, and jobs, as well as Advanced Permissions Management to controllably share data with users and groups. These features are accessible from your User menu on SAMSON Connect.

Here is an overview of the collaboration 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 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.).

On SAMSON Connect, go to User menu > Profile to edit your profile:

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

If public, your profile becomes accessible on SAMSON Connect:

Creating and managing groups

You can create (and manage) 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:

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:

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

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

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

Sharing documents

You can upload documents to SAMSON Connect while controlling the document visibility. To share your document from SAMSON click Home > Publish (1).

1. , : Ctrl+Alt+S, : Cmd+Alt+S

In the dialog window, fill in the name of the document, its description, and choose the document visibility. For the document visibility you can choose one of the following options:

• Public - everyone can use this document, but editing requires an access right.
• Hidden - anyone with the link can use this document, but editing requires an access right.
• Restricted - using or editing this document requires an access right.

Then click Publish document and the document will be shared in SAMSON Connect - Documents and the link to it will be provided in the same window. You can access and manage all your shared documents in your account at SAMSON Connect (see below).

Managing shared documents on SAMSON Connect

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.

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

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

and grant access rights to users:

or directly to groups:

Note

You can create an unlimited number of private or public groups on SAMSON Connect to easily share documents, jobs, extensions, etc., for example, based on the projects you are working on.

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 accessible from SAMSON Connect, and you can control who has access to them.

Like shared documents, a job can either be:

• Public - visible to everyone,
• Hidden - a link is needed to download the files,
• Restricted - specific access rights must be granted to access the files or edit the job details.

Note

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:

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

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

As with shared 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.

Note

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