SODA (Software to Organize Data Automatically) for SPARC is an open-source and free cross-platform desktop software intended to facilitate the data organization and submission process for SPARC investigators according to the FAIR SPARC data curation guidelines. The idea for a computer software that assists researchers in curating and sharing their data originated during the SPARC Hackathon in December 2018, where it won the Public's Choice Award, before receiving support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for further development. SODA for SPARC is designed such that users can accomplish all the requirements to submit a SPARC dataset rapidly through a single interface. Moreover, requirements have been broken down into easy-to-perform steps and automation has been integrated to reduce users' effort to a bare minimum during each step, often to just a few clicks.

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Your one-stop tool for curating and submitting SPARC datasets By SPARC investigators, for SPARC investigators

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SODA (Software to Organize Data Automatically) for SPARC is an open-source and free cross-platform desktop software intended to facilitate the data organization and submission process for SPARC investigators according to the FAIR SPARC data curation guidelines. The idea for a computer software that assists researchers in curating and sharing their data originated during the SPARC Hackathon in December 2018, where it won the Public's Choice Award, before receiving support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for further development. SODA for SPARC is designed such that users can accomplish all the requirements to submit a SPARC dataset rapidly through a single interface. The submission process is broken down into simple steps, with automation integrated throughout — often reducing tasks to just a few clicks.

📊 By the Numbers

💡 At least 35 TB of biomedical data curated and made FAIR - with much of it uploaded to Pennsieve - since January 2021 📈 21 SPARC datasets curated and made FAIR with SODA have been published on SPARC.Science since June 2024

Downloading SODA

SODA is distributed as an easy-to-install application for Windows, Mac OS, and Ubuntu. Follow the instructions provided in our dedicated documentation to download the version suitable for your operating system.

All our releases are also accessible in the releases tab.

Documentation

See our dedicated webpage for the full documentation, including details about each feature and how to use them.

Issues and Feedback

If you encounter a bug, need help, or have a feature request, please open a new issue via the Issues tab. When reporting, include helpful details such as:

Your operating system
Steps to reproduce the issue
Screenshots or logs (if available)

Alternatively, you can share feedback through our quick feedback form. This is also accessible from within the SODA user interface.

Contributing

If you're interested in contributing directly to the project or modifying SODA to better suit your needs please refer to our contributing.md file here.

Whether you're a user or developer, your contributions help improve SODA for the entire SPARC community. Thanks for being part of it!

License

SODA is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Privacy Policy

We use Kombucha Analytics to collect anonymous usage data.

This data helps us:

Improve SODA’s features and usability
Identify bugs and crashes
Fulfill our reporting requirements to the SPARC program

To learn more about what SODA collects and how we use Kombucha Analytics within SODA, please read our Privacy Policy.

Acknowledgements

NIH SPARC Initiative
Pennsieve Team
SPARC Dataset Curation Team
Our beta testers, including:
- Natalia Biscola (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
- John Dawson (UC Davis)
- Clara Huesing (Pennington Biomedical Research Center)
- Scott John (UCLA)
- Muriel Larauche (Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases, Department of Medicine, UCLA)
- Madelyn Lorenz (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Kun-Han Lu (Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University)
- Alison Moss (Thomas Jefferson University)
- Anna Rietsch (Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH)
- Joseph Sassoon (Integrated Medical Systems Laboratory - New York Institute of Technology)

Citing

If you use SODA for SPARC to curate your dataset, please cite the following references:

Marroquin, C., Clark, J., Portillo, D., Soundarajan, S., Ngo, T., & Patel, B., SODA: Software to Support the Curation and Sharing of FAIR Autonomic Nervous System Data. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(100), 6140, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.06140
Marroquin, C., Clark, J., Portillo, D., Soundarajan, S., Ngo, T., & Patel, B., (2024). SODA (Software to Organize Data Automatically) for SPARC. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.5565455 [Note: if you used a specific version of SODA, we recommend citing that version using the instructions provided on the Zenodo SODA page]
Bandrowski, A., Grethe, J. S., Pilko, A., Gillespie, T., Pine, G., Patel, B., Surles-Zeigler, M., & Martone, M. E. (2021). SPARC Data Structure: Rationale and Design of a FAIR Standard for Biomedical Research Data. bioRxiv. 10.1101/2021.02.10.430563

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