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ImmPort: disseminating data to the public for the future of immunology

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The immunology database and analysis portal (ImmPort) system is the archival repository and dissemination vehicle for clinical and molecular datasets created by research consortia funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Transplantation. With nearly 100 datasets now publicly available and hundreds of downloads per month, ImmPort is an important source for raw data and protocols from clinical trials, mechanistic studies, and novel methods for cellular and molecular measurements. To facilitate data transfer, templates for data representation and standard operating procedures have also been created and are also publicly available. ImmPort facilitates transparency and reproducibility in immunology research, serves as an important resource for education, and enables newly generated hypotheses and data-driven science.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Bioinformatics Support Contract HHSN272201200028C). The authors thank Ashley Xia and Quan Chen at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for their oversight of the program. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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  1. Division of Systems Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1265 Welch Road MSOB X163, Stanford, CA, 94305-5415, USA

    Sanchita Bhattacharya, Sandra Andorf & Atul J. Butte

  2. Northrop Grumman Information Systems Health IT, Rockville, MD, 20850, USA

    Linda Gomes, Patrick Dunn, Patty Berger, Vince Desborough, Tom Smith, John Campbell, Elizabeth Thomson, Ruth Monteiro, Patricia Guimaraes, Bryan Walters & Jeff Wiser

  3. ESAC Inc., Rockville, MD, 20850, USA

    Henry Schaefer & Joan Pontius

  4. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, 725 Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, USA

    Atul J. Butte

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Bhattacharya, S., Andorf, S., Gomes, L. et al. ImmPort: disseminating data to the public for the future of immunology. Immunol Res 58, 234–239 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12026-014-8516-1

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