Organizations and Projects

Studies in CSA are grouped on an Organization and Project level.

An Organization is the entity, such as a hospital or research center, that owns the samples imported to CSA and the projects under which studies are created. A single Organization should be created for your organization and linked with your domain name.

A Project is a collection of studies. All Projects within an Organization can access all of the samples belonging to that Organization. All studies belong to a specific Project, and users can be contained within a specific Project.

This heirarchy is illustrated below:

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CSA hierarchy

Organizations and Projects are managed by a CSA administrator. For information about managing Organizations and Projects, refer to the Administration Manual.