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Getting started with PHENO
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| `PHENO <https://brapi.biodata.pt/>`_ is a data portal for the submission, storage and sharing of metadata for plant phenotypic experiments.
| It can be used as a search engine to look for plant phenotypic data, and store your experiment metadata to comply with FAIR guidelines.
| By submitting in PHENO, your project metadata will be secured, and your data will be more `FAIR <https://fair-software.eu/about>`_.

Submitting Data in PHENO
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| Submitting data in **PHENO** is done using the `OntoBrAPI <https://brapi.biodata.pt/submit>`_ tool.
| Learn on how to start submitting your data in the :ref:`Submitting Metadata in PHENO <ontobrapi>` section.

Searching and Retrieving Data
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| Users can search for specific datasets in PHENO through the search bar, using keywords such as:

1. Species name
2. Project name
3. People involved in the project

| After finding the desired dataset, users can have direct access to the data itself and download it, if public, using the provided link.