The NIAID Discovery Portal: a unified search engine for infectious and immune-mediated disease datasets

mSystems

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Resource Report

Ginger Tsueng¹  Emily Bullen¹  Candice Czech¹  Dylan Welzel¹  Leandro Collares¹  Jason Lin¹  Everaldo Rodolpho¹  Zubair Qazi¹  Nichollette Acosta¹  Lisa M. Mayer²  Sudha Venkatachari³  Zorana Mitrović Vučičević⁴  Poromendro N. Burman⁴  Deepti Jain⁴  Jack DiGiovanna⁴  Maria Giovanni⁵  Asiyah Lin²  Wilbert Van Panhuis²  Laura D. Hughes¹  Andrew I. Su¹  Chunlei Wu¹ 

[1] Office of Data Science and Emerging Technologies, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, USA

[2] National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA

[3] Velsera, Charlestown, Maryland, USA

[4] The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA

[5] National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville, Maryland, USA

关键词: data reuse;    metadata harmonization;    infectious disease;    immunology;    FAIR data;    data discovery;    resource report;   

DOI  :  10.1128/msystems.01270-25

 received in 2025-08-29, accepted in 2025-12-09,  发布年份 2026

来源: American Society for Microbiology

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACTThe National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal (https://data.niaid.nih.gov) provides a unified search interface for over 4 million data sets relevant to infectious and immune-mediated disease (IID) research. Integrating metadata from domain-specific and generalist repositories, the Portal enables researchers to identify and access data sets using user-friendly filters or advanced queries, without requiring technical expertise. The Portal supports discovery of a wide range of resources, including epidemiological, clinical, and multi-omic data sets and is designed to accommodate exploratory browsing and precise searches. The Portal provides filters, prebuilt queries, and data set collections to simplify the discovery process for users. The Portal additionally provides documentation and an API for programmatic access to harmonized metadata. By easing access barriers to important biomedical data sets, the NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal serves as an entry point for researchers working to understand, diagnose, or treat IID.IMPORTANCEValuable data sets are often overlooked because they are difficult to locate. The NIAID Data Ecosystem Discovery Portal fills this gap by providing a centralized, searchable interface that empowers users with varying levels of technical expertise to find and reuse data. By standardizing key metadata fields and harmonizing heterogeneous formats, the Portal improves data findability, accessibility, and reusability. This resource supports hypothesis generation, comparative analysis, and secondary use of public data by the IID research community, including those funded by NIAID. The Portal supports data sharing by standardizing metadata and linking to source repositories and maximizes the impact of public investment in research data by supporting scientific advancement via secondary use.

【 授权许可】

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Copyright © 2025 Tsueng et al.

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