# 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](/icm/reference/supported-data-types.md) 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](/icm/reference/supported-data-types.md) 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.
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