organizations

Add aliases linked to a collection in Dockstore.

Aliases are alphanumerical (case-insensitive and may contain internal hyphens), given in a comma-delimited list.

post/organizations/collections/{collectionId}/aliases

Path parameters

collectionIdinteger required

Collection to modify.

Query parameters

aliasesstring required

Comma-delimited list of aliases.

Response

Successfully added alias to collection

aliasesobject

dbCreateDateinteger

dbUpdateDateinteger

descriptionstring

Description of the collection

displayNamestring

idinteger

Implementation specific ID for the collection in this web service

metadataobject

Arbitrary metadata for this collection, settable only by admins and curators

namestring required

Name of the collection

notebooksLengthinteger

Number of notebooks inside this collection

organizationIDinteger

organizationNamestring

servicesLengthinteger

Number of services inside this collection

toolsLengthinteger

Number of tools inside this collection

topicstring required

Short description of the collection

workflowsLengthinteger

Number of workflows inside this collection

Example response

{
  "name": "alignment",
  "topic": "A collection of alignment algorithms"
}

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