ImmPort
ImmPort provides a data repository and analysis platform for archiving, disseminating, and enabling secondary analyses of clinical and basic immunology datasets.
Key Features:
- Private Data: Storage for researchers' proprietary immunology datasets while preserving associated metadata.
- Shared Data: A centralized repository containing over 300 studies curated for reuse and secondary analysis.
- Data Analysis: Analytical tools and methodologies tailored to immunology workflows, including support for cytometry data.
- Resources: Supplementary materials and metadata to support interpretation and reuse of immunological datasets.
- Data management: Capabilities for archiving, dissemination, and reuse of clinical and basic immunological data.
Scientific Applications:
- Validation: Reanalysis of archived datasets to confirm or reproduce published immunological findings.
- Meta-analysis: Combining datasets across studies to perform aggregated statistical analyses in immunology.
- Hypothesis generation: Mining existing clinical and basic immunology data to generate new research hypotheses.
- Cytometry analysis: Analysis of flow and mass cytometry datasets within immunological studies.
Methodology:
Provides computational tools and methodologies for analysis of immunology datasets, including workflows tailored to cytometry and broader immunological data analyses.
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Details
- License:
- Unlicense
- Maturity:
- Mature
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Tool Type:
- web application
- Operating Systems:
- Linux, Windows, Mac
- Added:
- 3/16/2019
- Last Updated:
- 6/16/2020
Operations
Publications
Bhattacharya S, Dunn P, Thomas CG, Smith B, Schaefer H, Chen J, Hu Z, Zalocusky KA, Shankar RD, Shen-Orr SS, Thomson E, Wiser J, Butte AJ. ImmPort, toward repurposing of open access immunological assay data for translational and clinical research. Scientific Data. 2018;5(1). doi:10.1038/sdata.2018.15. PMID:29485622. PMCID:PMC5827693.