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. Much of the data and resources uploaded into the portal are labelled with 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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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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