The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal is a centralized search hub for infectious and immune-mediated disease datasets and computational tools from over 70 sources. These include NIAID-funded repositories as well as globally-relevant infectious and immune-mediated disease (IID) repositories from NIH and beyond. Resources in the Discovery Portal include -omics data, clinical data, epidemiological data, pathogen-host interaction data, flow cytometry, imaging, workflows, computational tools, and more.
Read more about the Discovery Portal in the Data Science Dispatch article NIAID Data Science Dispatch article Using the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal to Search Across Data Repositories.
Getting Started with the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal
The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal does not store data. Instead, it contains harmonized and detailed information (metadata) about datasets, computational tools, and resources. Users can then navigate to datasets, tools, and resources through external links.
Using the Discovery Portal, you can:
- Navigate to the Discovery Portal homepage and enter keyword(s) into the search bar to rapidly search millions of datasets across both IID and generalist repositories.
- Search with custom queries in Advanced Search or pre-built queries for common searches.
- Explore 70+ resources that are listed on the Discovery Portal homepage.
- Visit “Program Collections” to explore data and computational tools that have cited funding from 50+ participating NIAID-funded programs.
- View dataset and computational tool summaries by disease in Portal “Disease Collections” pages.
- Use filters to identify research data by metadata categories including funding source, repository, conditions of access, and more.
- Learn more about the Discovery Portal from the About The NIAID Data Ecosystem page and read documentation in the Knowledge Center.