Track your organization's funding impact through ProjectLIVE

ProjectLive is designed to help our external and internal partners track the progress of each study present on the NF Data Portal through simple visualizations of yearly or monthly tracking of upload and annotation of data files generated in the study.

The support of funding organizations like yours greatly impacts the research being conducted through various innovative studies. Tracking the data generated by these studies is an effective and important way for you to understand the impact that your organization has made. That’s why we created the ProjectLIVE app—so you can see an overview of this progress all in one place.

The visualizations provided throughout this app will give you summary-level information related to all the studies in your organization’s funding portfolio. Are you hoping to access and download the actual files and data contained within each of these studies? You can do so back to the NF Data Portal. And you can find instructions on navigating the NF Data Portal and finding data of interest throughout the rest of our documentation site.

Overview of the app:

ProjectLive can help you track progress of your organization’s funding at various levels of granularity and aspects, using the following modules:

1. Snapshot: This module provides a bird's eye view of your organization's funding structure and activity in the funded studies year over year.

2. Publications: This module is focused on longitudinal tracking of the publications associated with the studies funded through an organization.

3. Participating Studies: This module provides focused information about individual studies with a high level of granularity ranging from tracking the annotation status of uploaded files to tracking of upload activity as it relates to the study's expected milestones.

4. New Submissions: This module provides a list of all newly uploaded files within the last n number of days (you can pick the window of time).

Each of the modules has its own set of visualizations designed to feature specific aspects of the funded studies in your organization’s funding portfolio. More details on each of these modules is presented further down on this page.

How to access and navigate the app:

To access the ProjectLIVE app, follow these steps:

1. Go to the NF Data Portal and make sure you’re signed in

2. Click on the Organizations tab in the top menu, and select your organization from the dropdown list

3. Click Funding Impact in the table of contents on the left (see screenshot below) or simply scroll to the bottom of the page

   

4. Under Funding Impact, click View Dashboard—this will direct you to the app

The ProjectLIVE app features four modules: Snapshot, Publications, Participating Studies, and New Submissions, which you can toggle between using the menu at the top.

Snapshot module

This module provides a bird's eye view of your organization's funding structure and activity in the funded studies year over year. Through the Overview section and the various bar plots, you can see the total number of studies, files, samples, and publications, by year, and by study.

The Snapshot module features the following sections:

Initiative Activity:

This visualization shows a summary of each each initiative as it has generated data through the years—more specifically, it shows how much of the generated data is available to the public, versus how much has private or restricted access.

Each bar in the plot shows the number of files labelled as Private, Public, or Restricted Access. Any files that do not have accessType annotated will be labeled Not Annotated.

You can hover over any of the colored slices of the bar plot to see the actual count of files (see screenshot below).

Resources Generated

This visualization provides an overview of the various data types generated by year, suggesting the nature of experiments that studies have focused on in a particular year or funding cycle. The plot is ordered such that the data type with the highest number of files in the most recent year will surface to the top of the list. You can hover over any of the colored slices of the bars corresponding to each data type to see which studies contributed to that data type.

File Upload Timeline

This visualization provides an overview of file upload activity of individual studies in specific funding initiatives over time during their funding period.

Under Select an initiative, use the dropdown menu to select a specific initiative to feature in the plot (the default plot will show all initiatives at once). The studies listed on the left of the visualization will reactively change according to your selection.

Each bar in the plot shows the various resources generated and shared by each of the studies in this initiative, as listed on the left of the plot. The resources can range from experimental data to analysis reports, among others. The legend on the right shows the various types of resources present for these studies.

You can hover over the colored slices of the bar plot to view the total number of files for that specific resource uploaded in the particular study.

Publications module

This module is designed to provide you with an overview, in terms of numbers, of the organization’s current and past publications.

The Publications module features the following sections:

Publication Status

This visualization displays the number of publications per year, per study. If you hover over any of the colored slices of the plot, you can see how many publications there were for that study in that year, as well as the name of each study.

Publication Status by Disease Manifestation

This visualization displays the number of publications per year, by disease manifestation rather than by study. You can hover over any of the colored slices in the plot to see a more detailed count.

Participating Studies module

This module provides an overview of participating studies, which you can filter by initiative, followed by several relevant visualizations to reflect your selected initiative.

The Participating Studies module features the following sections:

Participating Studies

This visualization, in the form of a table, provides relevant details on all publications in an initiative. Notice how you can reorder the table by a specific category by clicking on a column of interest. By default, the displays all studies from all initiatives that your organization has funded. Use the Select an initiative dropdown to select a specific initiative to display only those initiative’s studies in the table.

Then, in order to populate the rest of the visualizations in this module, you need to click on a specific study within the table.

Study Summary

This table is a simple summary of the selected study. You can actually click on the synID listed next to Unique Study Id to access the study in Synapse.

Study Timeline

If there has been progress completed already on this study, the progress will be reflected in this visualization. You can see the number of files uploaded each month, per Resource Type (analysis, experimental data, or report).

Data Focus

These plots feature total numbers based on various data focuses of this study: assays used, resources added, species used, and tumor types investigated. You can hover over any of the colored sections in each bar plot to see more details.

Annotation Activity

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Publication Status

If this study has associated publications, then this visualization displays the number of publications by year. Hover over any of the colored sections in any plot to see more details.

Milestone or Progress Report tracker

As mentioned in the app, these series of plots track the expected and actual data uploads to this study associated with each progress or milestone report. Visualizations will only appear if the study has current milestones or progress report updates. To populate the visualization, you need to select a parameter (either Data Type or File Format) from the dropdown menu under Choose parameter to visualize.

*Question - will “Sage internal milestone or progress report tracking” appear for external users? does this need to be explained to external users or is it designed for internal sage users only?

New Submissions module

This module provides a summary of new file submissions, which you can filter by number of days. It has one section that presents the information in a table.

New Files

This table shows a summary of all new files uploaded with the last N days. By default, the table shows the files uploaded within the last 60 days. To change this, type in a custom number under Display files uploaded within the last N days. You can use the Show N entries dropdown to change the number of entries that displays on the page.

How to use the bar plots

The many plot graphs that you can find throughout the app all function in essentially the same way.

If you hover your cursor over different bars on the plot, you can view more information about that bar. For plots that include a legend, you can click on any item in the legend to temporarily add or remove it from the table. You can also double click on any item to isolate only that item in the plot.

There are additional table tools you can access by hovering your mouse over any part of the table—these tools (seen below) will appear as icons at the top right of any plot.

• Use the camera icon to download a .png image of the plot

• Use the zoom in and zoom out icons to zoom in and out

• Use the autoscale icon to rescale the plot back to fit the page after zooming in or out

Play around with the other icons to see if any are of use to you!

You can also click Download plot table at the top left corner of any plot to download a .csv file of the plot table data (data only).

How to find a specific piece of information

For additional instructions on specific use cases, see the page Use Cases.