What is a "submission"?

The Submission Lifecycle

Every submission moves through a lifecycle from a private draft to a visible, published state.

1. Draft

When you first create a submission and upload your files, it begins in the Draft state. This is a private, temporary space for you and your project's administrators to review the data.

• The system automatically validates your files and organizes your isolates into tabs: "Eligible for publishing," "Missing sequence data," and "Errors."
• You can upload new versions of your files to correct any errors found during validation.
• Data in a draft submission is not visible to project members with a "Viewer" role.

2. Published

Once you are confident that your data is correct and complete, you can Publish it. This is a critical step that makes the data official.

• Only the valid, error-free isolates that have associated sequence data will be included in the published set.
• Once published, the data becomes visible to all members of the project, including Viewers.
• The data will also be included in the main pathogen dashboards and aggregated views, according to the project's sharing policy.

Versioning and Editing

Submissions are designed to be version-controlled.

• If you need to make corrections after publishing, you can upload a new version of the data.

Important: Uploading a new version to a Published submission will automatically revert it to a Draft state. You will need to re-publish it for the changes to become visible to others.