The NIAID Discovery Portal: A Unified Search Engine for Infectious and Immune-Mediated Disease Datasets
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| author | Tsueng, Ginger Bullen, Emily Czech, Candice Welzel, Dylan Collares, Leandro Lin, Jason Rodolpho, Everaldo Qazi, Zubair Acosta, Nichollette Mayer, Lisa M. Venkatachari, Sudha Vučičević, Zorana Mitrović Burman, Poromendro N. Jain, Deepti DiGiovanna, Jack Giovanni, Maria Lin, Asiyah Van Panhuis, Wilbert Hughes, Laura D. Su, Andrew I. Wu, Chunlei |
| author_facet | Tsueng, Ginger Bullen, Emily Czech, Candice Welzel, Dylan Collares, Leandro Lin, Jason Rodolpho, Everaldo Qazi, Zubair Acosta, Nichollette Mayer, Lisa M. Venkatachari, Sudha Vučičević, Zorana Mitrović Burman, Poromendro N. Jain, Deepti DiGiovanna, Jack Giovanni, Maria Lin, Asiyah Van Panhuis, Wilbert Hughes, Laura D. Su, Andrew I. Wu, Chunlei |
| contents | The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal (https://data.niaid.nih.gov) provides a unified search interface for over 4 million datasets relevant to infectious and immune-mediated disease (IID) research. Integrating metadata from domain-specific and generalist repositories, the Portal enables researchers to identify and access datasets using user-friendly filters or advanced queries, without requiring technical expertise. The Portal supports discovery of a wide range of resources, including epidemiological, clinical, and multi-omic datasets, and is designed to accommodate exploratory browsing and precise searches. The Portal provides filters, prebuilt queries, and dataset collections to simplify the discovery process for users. The Portal additionally provides documentation and an API for programmatic access to harmonized metadata. By easing access barriers to important biomedical datasets, the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal serves as an entry point for researchers working to understand, diagnose, or treat IID.
Valuable datasets are often overlooked because they are difficult to locate. The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal fills this gap by providing a centralized, searchable interface that empowers users with varying levels of technical expertise to find and reuse data. By standardizing key metadata fields and harmonizing heterogeneous formats, the Portal improves data findability, accessibility, and reusability. This resource supports hypothesis generation, comparative analysis, and secondary use of public data by the IID research community, including those funded by NIAID. The Portal supports data sharing by standardizing metadata and linking to source repositories, and maximizes the impact of public investment in research data by supporting scientific advancement via secondary use. |
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| spellingShingle | The NIAID Discovery Portal: A Unified Search Engine for Infectious and Immune-Mediated Disease Datasets Tsueng, Ginger Bullen, Emily Czech, Candice Welzel, Dylan Collares, Leandro Lin, Jason Rodolpho, Everaldo Qazi, Zubair Acosta, Nichollette Mayer, Lisa M. Venkatachari, Sudha Vučičević, Zorana Mitrović Burman, Poromendro N. Jain, Deepti DiGiovanna, Jack Giovanni, Maria Lin, Asiyah Van Panhuis, Wilbert Hughes, Laura D. Su, Andrew I. Wu, Chunlei Databases Digital Libraries J.3 The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal (https://data.niaid.nih.gov) provides a unified search interface for over 4 million datasets relevant to infectious and immune-mediated disease (IID) research. Integrating metadata from domain-specific and generalist repositories, the Portal enables researchers to identify and access datasets using user-friendly filters or advanced queries, without requiring technical expertise. The Portal supports discovery of a wide range of resources, including epidemiological, clinical, and multi-omic datasets, and is designed to accommodate exploratory browsing and precise searches. The Portal provides filters, prebuilt queries, and dataset collections to simplify the discovery process for users. The Portal additionally provides documentation and an API for programmatic access to harmonized metadata. By easing access barriers to important biomedical datasets, the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal serves as an entry point for researchers working to understand, diagnose, or treat IID. Valuable datasets are often overlooked because they are difficult to locate. The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal fills this gap by providing a centralized, searchable interface that empowers users with varying levels of technical expertise to find and reuse data. By standardizing key metadata fields and harmonizing heterogeneous formats, the Portal improves data findability, accessibility, and reusability. This resource supports hypothesis generation, comparative analysis, and secondary use of public data by the IID research community, including those funded by NIAID. The Portal supports data sharing by standardizing metadata and linking to source repositories, and maximizes the impact of public investment in research data by supporting scientific advancement via secondary use. |
| title | The NIAID Discovery Portal: A Unified Search Engine for Infectious and Immune-Mediated Disease Datasets |
| topic | Databases Digital Libraries J.3 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13524 |