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 Much 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 that you have permission to view will appear in the table by default (“view” as in seeing the existence of a file, not necessarily having access to download it). 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
search icons → Notice that there is a search icon within each category—use this to search for specific filters within the category
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Notice how, by default, each of the categories have a checkmark in the box labelled All. Before you apply any filters for a category, it will include all files within that category until a filter(s) is applied. Next to each filtering option is a number—this indicates how many files will be included once that specific filter is applied. For example, looking at the image above, if you check the rnaSeq box under the Assay section, the files will be narrowed down to 3,802 results, as seen in the image below.
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When using the search function, type exact terms—unlike Google or other search engines, our search function requires exact matches in order to find terms (it may not return accurate results for misspelled or incomplete terms)
For a high-level view of the kinds of data available in the portal, browse the visualizations (mentioned earlier on this page) that are located on every Explore page.
Most initiatives, studies, publications, hackathons, and organizations have associated detailpages where you can drill down into its associated details and related data. For example, if you visit the Children’s Tumor Foundation detail page, you can view all of its associated studies, data, and publications.
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