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1. From the CSSI Data Portal home page, click the Search button select Investigations > Search.
   
   
   The Search Investigations page appears.
   
   
   
2. In the Search box, enter a keyword or phrase. Keywords are any word that appears in the fields belonging to any investigation, study, or assay in the CSSI DCC Portal. This includes all file columns, field definitions, and placeholders that describe the structure of the data collected in this study.
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   Search results appear immediately, using the context currently in the Search for box, which by default is Investigations. The time the CSSI DCC Portal took to first search for the keyword or phrase and then render the results on the page also appears.
   
   In the following example, the keyword "cell" is in the Search box and investigations that include this keyword appear in the list.
   
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   Other options exist for refining your search exist and an explanation of them follows.
   
   
   • In the Search box, change the context for your search if desired. Select Investigations, Studies, or Assays. Examples of each search result follow.
     
     In the following example, the keyword is "genomic" and the context is Investigations. Three investigations appear in the search results, along with information about each one that includes the investigation name, number of studies, number of assays, number of files, and description.
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     In the following example, the keyword is "genomic" and the context is Studies. Three studies appear in the search results, along with information about each one that includes 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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     In the following example, the keyword is "genomic" and the context is Assays. Three assays appear in the search results, along with information about each one that includes 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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     Click any investigation name, study name, or assay filename to explore the data further.

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