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1. From the CSSI Data Portal home page, click the Search button or select Investigations > Search.
   
   
   The Search Investigations page appears.
   
2. In the Search box, enter a keyword or phrase.
   

   In the Search for box, select the context of the search. Options include Investigations, Studies, or Assays. Your search will be restricted to the context you select.Search results appear.

   In the following example of search results, the keyword for the search is "cell" and the context is Investigations. All investigations that include the word "cell" anywhere in the investigation metadata appear in the these search results.

   
   

3. Click any investigation name, study name, or assay filename to explore the data further.

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1. If the context were Studies or Assays, the results would include information specific to these components, as follows

   • Search results from a search with a context of Studies display the study name, name of the investigation the study is associated with, number of assays, number of files, and description. In these cases, the investigation name and study names are identical.

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1. • Search results from a search with a context of Assays display the assay filename, name of the study that the assay is associated with, name of the investigation the assay is associated with, number of files (such as image files), and description.

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1. Click any investigation name, study name, or assay filename to explore the data further.

Search by Related Terms

You can search all investigations, studies, and assays in the CSSI DCC database by related terms found in relevant ontologies. The two ontologies available are Ontology for Biomedical Investigations and the NCI Thesaurus (NCIt). A search looks for matches between the term(s) you enter and either synonyms only or synonyms and subclasses found in the ontology/ies you select. The term you enter can exist in the file columns, field definitions, and placeholders of investigations, studies, or assays.

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