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Performing a Basic Search

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Performing a Basic Search

Searching by Keyword or Phrase

You can search all investigations, studies, and assays in the CSSI DCC 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

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Search results appear below the search criteria area.

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.

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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.

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To further narrow your results, you can filter by Investigation Public Release Date. Click Filters to show the From and To date selection boxes. Click Search. Note that if you do not enter a search term but select dates in this filter that the CSSI DCC Portal searches all investigations that match the dates you selected.
Investigations matching your search appear on the page.

Searching by Related Terms

You can search all investigations, studies, and assays in the CSSI DCC Portal by terms found in related ontologies, for example, the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations

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and NCI Thesaurus (NCIt). A search looks for synonyms and subclasses of the keyword you entered in the ontology(ies) you selected and matches them to investigations, studies, and assays in the CSSI DCC Portal. The matching ontological terms can exist in file columns, field definitions, and placeholders of the investigations, studies, or assays.

To search investigation data by related terms

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To change the context, from the Search for list, select Studies or Assays.

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To further narrow your results, you can filter by Investigation Public Release Date. Click Filters to show the From and To date selection boxes. Click Search. Note that if you do not enter a search term but select dates in this filter that the CSSI DCC Portal searches all investigations that match the dates you selected.
Investigations matching your search appear on the page.

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Searching by Keyword or Phrase

Searching by Related Terms

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  • Synonyms include terms in an ontology that are closely related to the keyword or phrase you entered.
  • Subclasses are lower categories associated with the ontology term.

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Viewing Detailed Search Results

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