# View Studies A **Study** is used to manage your samples, metadata, comparison groups, and analyses for a specific set of data. ### Overview The Study overview page will display the following **Study Information**: | Information | Description | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | Date Created | The date and time the study was created. | | Created By | The user who created the study. | | Date Modified | The last date and time the study was modified. This date updates whenever a user performs an action within the study, such as adding data, creating a sample group, starting a new analysis, etc. Users may need to manually refresh their browser to see updates. | | Modified By | The user who last modified the study. | | ICA Project | The ICA project the study imports data from. | | Description | The description of the study, provided by the user during study creation. | You will also see the following **Data Metrics**: | Information | Description | | ----------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Sample Files | The number of sample files within the study, including both manually added and auto-ingested sample files. Please see the [Supported Data Types](https://help.connected.illumina.com/icm/reference/supported-data-types) for a list of possible sample file extensions. | | Metadata Files | The number of metadata files within the study, identified by the `.tsv` file extension. | | Samples | The number of samples within the study. Note that multiple protein samples can come from a single ADAT file, whereas a single spatial or scRNA sample is created for each set of spatial/scRNA files. Please see the [Supported Data Types](https://help.connected.illumina.com/icm/reference/supported-data-types) for more information. | | Analyses | The number of analyses within your study, including both in-progress and completed analyses. | | Attributed Sample Count | The number of samples in the study with linked metadata. | | Metadata Entry Count | The number of metadata attributes displayed in the study. This corresponds with the number of metadata columns shown next to your samples. | If there are analyses in your study, you will see the **Recent Analyses** section at the bottom of the **Overview** screen.