Once you browse or search the CSSI DCC data sets and reach a details page for a selected investigation, study, or assay, you can continue exploring the data. (For information on these pages, refer to Investigation Details Page, Study Details Page, or Assay Details Page.) The ISA-Tab format is hierarchical, with investigation components becoming more granular as you proceed down the hierarchy. The largest organizing entity is the investigation, which holds one or more studies. Each study includes one or more assays. Assays are composed of samples, which in turn are composed of protocols. Data files are often associated with a protocol.
The following diagram depicts the hierarchy, without the samples and protocols.
The following page family describes how to visualize and filter data of each type.
