> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.nuvolos.com/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.nuvolos.com/how-to-guides/workflows-for-researchers.md).

# Workflows for Researchers

These guides answer the question *"how do I do X?"* for researchers who already have working familiarity with Nuvolos. If you are new to the platform, start with the [Researcher tutorials](/tutorials/tutorials-for-researchers.md) first - they take you from creating your first project to a reproducible, reviewer-ready result.

The guides are organised by where you are in your research lifecycle:

* **Project setup** - create or join a project, add files and code, structure your project, create alternate instances for experimentation.
* **Collaborate and review** - invite collaborators with the right roles, invite an external reviewer.
* **Run analyses and applications** - create, start, and stop applications.
* **Work with data** - set up a dataset, import data, query and write back tabular data from applications.
* **Scale and automate** - use GPUs, scale to HPC, automate with the CLI or Python API.
* **Preserve and share results** - export your project, snapshot and distribute results.

Each page assumes you can navigate Nuvolos's Dashboard, sidebar, and breadcrumbs. If anything in the interface is unfamiliar, see [Getting Started › Find your way around](/getting-started/find-your-way-around.md).

### Where to go next

* For end-to-end walk-throughs of common researcher workflows (first project, reproducible result, reproducing a colleague's work), see [Researcher tutorials](/tutorials/tutorials-for-researchers.md).
* For procedures every role shares (invitations, applications, snapshots, distribution), see [How-to › Common Workflows](/how-to-guides/common-workflows.md).
* For the technical reference on applications, storage, data storage, and configuration, see [Reference](/reference/applications.md).
* For the conceptual model behind instances, snapshots, distribution, and the data storage architecture, see [Concepts](/concepts/nuvolos-basic-concepts.md).


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