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dkNET: Connecting Researchers to Resources

Introduction

dkNET is a search portal that helps researchers find research resources relevant to their research and keep up to date on new tools, services and mandates to support robust and reproducible science. Research resources include reagents, organisms, software tools, databases and services. dkNET is a major supporter of the Research Resource Identifier (RRID) project to ensure that such resources are properly identified in the biomedical literature. We have assembled a large, integrated data set based on the RRID that allows us to aggregate data about these resources, including how they perform and who else is using them. dkNET is funded by the US National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and allows researchers to search across the many centers and services funded by NIDDK, but dkNET's tools and services can be used by researchers across biomedicine.

dkNET also is an information hub for the DK community, providing regular updates, webinars and new tools and services to support your research, including funding opportunities available, and to help researchers navigate and comply with new regulations and mandates on resource authentication and data sharing.

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Tools and Services

Resource Reports - Powered by Resource Network Our Resource Network is a streamlined search tool based on a completely new approach. It's the only integrated data set and analytics platform combining Research Resource Identifiers (RRIDs), text mining and data aggregation. Users can identify key resources while also tracking resource use and performance. The network offers a detailed overview of each resource along with citation metrics from the biomedical literature and even information about what resources have been used together. You'll gain insights about who is using particular resources and how the community views those resources.

Discovery Portal The new dkNET Discovery Portal connects researchers directly to more than 300 biomedical databases and millions of resources. We have incorporated user feedback to create a more intuitive search interface that unifies the search across community resources of special relevance to NIDDK researchers, additional biomedical databases and the biomedical literature. Now you can quickly locate the exact information and data you need.

Authentication Reports and FAIR Data Today's biomedical researchers face the challenge of complying with new NIH mandates for rigor and reproducibility, and managing and sharing research data. These latter requirements are part of a larger movement to ensure that data is FAIR – findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable. dkNET is expanding its support for reproducibility with new tools and services. Our goal is to empower NIDDK-supported researchers to authenticate resources and share data in compliance with FAIR principles. One new tool makes it easy to generate a resource authentication report when submitting a proposal or publication. We also help you to find data repositories for data management plan. In an upcoming release, we'll be providing guidance and resources for generating data management plans and understanding what FAIR means to you.

Hypothesis Center - Signaling Pathways Project To usher in the era of FAIR data management, it's crucial to provide tools for compliance. But it's equally important to make the case for how FAIR benefits researchers and elevates their work. We're joining with the Signaling Pathways Project to create a powerful new meta-analysis platform for FAIR ‘omics data. Hypothesis Center is a hub for big data and hypothesis generation that will allow researchers to extract information across different datasets. Users will be able to use biocuration and consensomic analysis of 'omics data to model signaling events in metabolic organs and intersections between cellular signaling pathways and metabolic disease.