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You can browse and explore investigation data from the contained in investigation, study, and assay files.

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You can search for investigations, studies, or assays in the CSSI DCC database Portal by:

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You can search all investigations, studies, and assays in the CSSI DCC database Portal by keyword or phrase. A search looks for matches in all file columns, field definitions, and placeholders in those investigations, studies, and assays.

To search investigation data by keyword or phrase

  1. From the CSSI Data Portal home page, click the Search button or select Investigations > Search.
    Search button

    The Search Investigations page appears.
    Search Investigations
  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.

    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 these search results.

    Search Investigations page, search results
    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.

    • 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.

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

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You can search all investigations, studies, and assays in the CSSI DCC database Portal by related terms found in relevant related ontologies. The two ontologies available for searching are the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations

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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 matched terms can exist in the file columns, field definitions, and placeholders of investigations, studies, or assays.

To search investigation data by related terms

  1. From the CSSI Data Portal home page, click the Search button or select Investigations > Search.
    Search button

    The Search Investigations page appears.
    Search Investigations
  2. In the Search box, enter a keyword or phrase.
  3. In the Search for list, select the context for the search, either Investigations, Studies, or Assays.
  4. Under Search for related terms, select either Ontology for Biomedical Investigations or NCI Thesaurus, or both.

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