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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Upon landing on the Files subtab, all files stored in the system will appear in the table by default. In the image shown above, the table and associated graphs incorporate the total of 12,876 files stored (at the time this screenshot was taken). To narrow this data down, use the Filter Data By section on the left.
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To help explain how to use these sections, refer to the following bullet points and the corresponding image below:
red arrows → When exploring the Files subtab, the Filter Data By sections that appear by default are: Assay, Data Type, and Tumor Type
red rectangle → There are various other categories that you can expand and filter by as well—click the plus sign next to any of these (File Format, Funding Agency, Individual ID, NF1 Genotype, NF2 Genotype, etc.) to reveal its filtering options
red circles → At the end of each category, click on Show more to reveal all filters for that category
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You can play around with the filtering options as you wish to narrow down the search and find your data of interest. Each additional filter will appear in the section under the graphs—you charts—you can easily remove individual filters as necessary, or click Clear All (top right) to remove all filters and start over.
Visualizations
This section of graphs charts at the top of the page will display visualizations for each category according to the data you’ve filtered. You can use the filter icon (3️⃣) for any chart to adjust the filters for that category—this will change the results as a whole (not just for that chart), just as it would if you changed the filters under Filter Data By.
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