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What do you need to know to start using PHES ODM?

Here, learn what you need to get started with PHES ODM in a few articles; starting with how to use templates and ending with how to report metadata. After you are comfortable with these basics, you can learn more with additional PHES ODM educational resources.

If you're looking to get started, download a small practice template and watch this 12-minute video to walk you through getting started with the bare essentials of the ODM. The video includes an example of how to record sample information, surveillance measures, and some essential meta-data.

If you want to gain a deeper understanding of how the ODM can work in practice, check out our series of videos on how to populate and use all the fields and tables in the ODM. You can also read the Understanding Relationship Tables and the Navigating the Parts Table sections in the documentation to understand how the more complicated structures in the ODM can work to capture more challenging data.

Check out the Ottawa Pipeline tool to see how you can automatically turn your qPCR outputs into ODM-formatted data. Then refresh your memory of how to record metadata with our series of videos on how to populate data, and check out the ODM database to see how others have recorded their data. If you want to start contributing data to our PHESD shared database, please reach out.