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.

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