Join us at ISMB/ECCB 2023 on Monday 7/24 at 3:10! Dr. Laura Hughes will be presenting _NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal: creating a federated search engine to discover infectious and immune-mediated disease data_.

ISMB/ECCB 2023

Watch Dr. Laura Hughes present [NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal: creating a federated search engine to discover infectious and immune-mediated disease data at ISMB/ECCB 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEDFhX_GyHw).

ISMB/ECCB conference presentation

Watch the recording to learn more about the Discovery Portal

Watch Dr. Laura Hughes present [_NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal: creating a federated search engine to discover infectious and immune-mediated disease data_ at ISMB/ECCB 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEDFhX_GyHw&pp=ygUZaXNtYiBuaWFpZCBkYXRhIGVjb3N5c3RlbQ%3D%3D)

Emily Bullen presented "NIAID Data Ecosystem: Advancing Discoverability in Infectious and Immune-Mediated Disease Research" at ASM Microbe 2024. [Check out the poster here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SrVpDPyDCFMLj7YRr7g8Xbj4FJQFYx_8/view?usp=sharing).

ASM Microbe presentation

View our poster for a brief overview of the Discovery Portal

Reed Shabman Ph.D., Deputy Director, and Meghan Hartwick M.Sc., Ph.D., Program Officer, presented "The NIAID Data Ecosystem Portal: enhancing findability and reuse of infectious and immune-mediated disease (IID) data" for CFDE on 2/6.

Common Fund Data Ecosystem (CFDE) presentation

Discovery Portal team discusses CFDE's shared goal of enabling researchers to find data

Discovery Portal team discusses CFDE's shared goal of enabling researchers to find data.

_NIAID Now_, the Institute's newsroom blog, has highlighted the recent release of the NIAID Data Discovery Portal. The blog describes how this new tool will enable the research community to find and reuse biomedical datasets. 
[Read about the Discovery Portal in _NIAID Now_](https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/blog)

Discovery Portal highlighted in NIAID Now

NIAID's newsroom showcases the Discovery Portal in their latest blog

You can now use the Discovery Portal to find tools for analyzing data. These include software, workflows, computational tools, and code. [Start searching](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search) or [view all of the available tools with the Computational Tools filter](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?from=1&filters=%28%40type%3A%28%22ComputationalTool%22%29%29).

Computational Tools added to the Discovery Portal

New in the Discovery Portal: Use the Program Collections filter to quickly find datasets contributed by specific NIAID programs and research initiatives. View the filter on the left side of the [Search page](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search) to try it.

Program Collections added to the Discovery Portal

Find datasets that are part of specialized research efforts

You can now find data from Figshare when you search in the Discovery Portal. [Start exploring Figshare data](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?q=&filters=%28includedInDataCatalog.name%3A%28%22Figshare%22%29%29)

New in the Discovery Portal: Figshare

Start searching for generalist bioscience research data

When you enter search terms in the Discovery Portal, your search terms are now highlighted within the results. This allows you to quickly see where your search terms match the metadata records. Enter search terms in the search bar to try it!

Search-term highlighting added to the Discovery Portal

Quickly find where your search terms match metadata records

We've added Metadata Compatibility Badges for every source so you can easily assess metadata standards met by each repository. View these in the [Sources page](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/sources)

Metadata Compatibility Badge added to the Discovery Portal

View the Sources page to quickly assess how compatible repositories are with the metadata ingested by the NIAID Data Ecosystem

You can now find single cell and spatial genomics datasets from Human Cell Atlas (HCA) when you search in the Discovery Portal. [Start exploring HCA data](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?q=&filters=%28includedInDataCatalog.name%3A%28%22Human+Cell+Atlas%22%29%29)

New in the Discovery Portal: Human Cell Atlas

Start searching for Human Cell Atlas data

NIAID and the NIH offer numerous funding opportunities & awards to support Data Reuse. For example, the [Dataworks Prize Challenge](https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=2024-dataworks-prize) is providing $500k in total prizes to projects that propose to "address a pivotal health research question via data reuse and secondary data analysis" (deadline 10/23/24). Take a look at the the [NIAID Data Science webpage](https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/data-science) to explore more events and upcoming opportunities.

NIH/NIAID Funding Opportunities + Annual Prize Challenge

Funding opportunities & awards to support Data Reuse

You can now find mass spectrometry datasets from MassIVE when you search in the Discovery Portal. [Start exploring MassIVE data](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?q=&filters=%28includedInDataCatalog.name%3A%28%22MassIVE%22%29%29)

New in the Discovery Portal: MassIVE

Start searching for mass spectrometry data

You can now find microbiome data from from the MicrobiomeDB when you search in the Discovery Portal. Start exploring [MicrobiomeDB data](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?q=&filters=%28includedInDataCatalog.name%3A%28%22MicrobiomeDB%22%29%29)

New in the Discovery Portal: MicrobiomeDB

You can now find Malaria-related data from from the The Malaria Genomic Epidemiology Network when you search in the Discovery Portal. Start exploring [MalariaGEN data](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?q=&filters=%28includedInDataCatalog.name%3A%28%22MalariaGEN%22%29%29)

New in the Discovery Portal: MalariaGEN

Start searching for Malarial host, pathogen, and/or parasite data

We've expanded the types of data you can find in the Discovery Portal to include other collections of scientific information or research outputs. New Resource Catalogs include: BV-BRC, TB Portals, ITN TrialShare, IEDB, & ImmuneSpace. Explore the [Resource Catalogs](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search?from=1&filters=%28%40type%3A%28%22ResourceCatalog%22%29%29)

New in the Discovery Portal: Resource Catalogs

Resource Catalogs (collections of scientific information or research outputs) include BV-BRC, TB Portals, ITN TrialShare, IEDB, ImmuneSpace

We've made lots of minor improvements to the Discovery Portal! For example, in each dataset page, the metadata JSON now comes with a "copy" button + collapsible tree and downloading metadata JSON/CSV now includes a progress bar and cancel option. View all updates in the [changelog](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/changelog).

Many minor updates made to enhance the Discovery Portal

View the list of recent updates made to improve the search platform

We've added a "metadata completeness score" for every dataset! This means you can now easily assess how thorough the metadata record is for each dataset. This score is displayed for every record in the [results page](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/search) and on every dataset page. Read more about the metadata completeness score in the [Knowledge Center](https://data.niaid.nih.gov/knowledge-center/metadata-completeness-score).

Metadata Completeness Score added to the Discovery Portal

Use the new Metadata Completeness Score to quickly assess the amount of metadata available for datasets

The latest edition of _NIAID Funding News_ has a feature on the new NIAID Data Discovery Portal. _NIAID Funding News_ provides biweekly updates on funding opportunities, policy information, and news on NIAID-funded research. 
[Read about the Discovery Portal in _NIAID Funding News_](https://www.niaid.nih.gov/grants-contracts/funding-news)

Discovery Portal featured in NIAID Funding News

Read about the NIAID Data Discovery Portal in the latest edition of NIAID Funding News!

Details on the recent release of the NIAID Data Discovery Portal have been highlighted in a blog at _Virological_.  _Virological_ is a hub for pre-publication information sharing and collaboration among virologists, epidemiologists, and other researchers. 
[Read about the Discovery Portal in _Virological_](https://virological.org/t/niaid-data-ecosystem-discovery-portal/942)

Discovery Portal featured in Virological

The leading blog/forum for virology experts details the Discovery Portal

NIAID Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) is excited to announce the launch of the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal! The Discovery Portal allows researchers to search simultaneously across millions of publicly available datasets to find infectious and immune-mediated (IID) disease data for reanalysis. [Start searching for data.](/search)

Launch of the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal

NIAID Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies (ODSET) is excited to announce the launch of the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal! 

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