Whether you’re a scientist, a bioinformatician, a data scientist, or a member of the general public looking for data, data on the NF Portal can be explored and accessed in multiple ways. The portal offers helpful filtering tools to help you find data of interest. All of the data and resources uploaded into the portal are labelled with metadata and annotations, so they can be easily used to help query the list of resources in each page. You can find a detailed breakdown of metadata definitions and explanations in our metadata dictionary.

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Some data on the portal is considered Controlled Use and requires you to request access by reading and electronically agreeing to data-specific terms. Learn how to do so here.

Get started exploring data

In the portal’s Explore tab, the various subtabs correspond to how the data is categorized for your filtering purposes. To demonstrate the best practices for finding data, let’s look at the Files subtab.

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Finally, the columns icon (5️⃣) allows you to customize the table by adding or removing specific columns.

Downloading data

While exploring and accessing data is done directly in the portal, downloading data is done in Synapse.

You can download data from the Synapse web interface, which has a maximum download size of 5 GB or 100 files. Find instructions on how to download files from the web here.

Alternatively, you can download data using programmatic clients (Python, R, and command line). This method does require some technical knowledge, but you can learn the basic commands to do this in Synapse Docs. Find instructions on how to download files programmatically here.