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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Anyone can browse public content on the NF Data Portal, but you need a Synapse account in order to download data. Learn how to do so here. If you’re new to Synapse, you may want to explore our Synapse documentation for more information and instructions.
Some data on the portal is considered Controlled Use controlled use and requires you to request access by reading and electronically agreeing to data-specific terms. Learn how to do so here.
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Notice that the page is made up of three sections: visualization graphs on top, the data table below, and the filtering tools on the left. There are also a few settings you can use at the top right. Let’s break down each tool on this page, starting with the filtering tools.
Please note: The data and numbers displayed in the screenshot above reflects the portal at that moment in time—this will likely be different than what you see when exploring the portal yourself, since the portal is dynamic and changes as new data is uploaded and processed.
Filtering tools
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. To narrow this data down, use the Filter Data By section on the left.
Filter Data By is broken into sections , that will be different differ depending on the tab subtab that you’re exploring by. When on the File tab, the different Filter By sections appear.
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
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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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For example, when exploring the File subtab, the following Filter By sections appear by default: Assay, Data Type, and Tumor Type. Then, there are more than a dozen additional categories that you can expand and filter by as well. Click the plus sign next to any of these (File Format, Individual ID, Species, etc.) to reveal its filtering options. At the end of each category, click on Show more to reveal all filters for that category.
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