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Welcome to dkNET!
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. Follow us on Twitter @dkNET_info or sign up for our newsletter to make sure you keep up to date with the ever changing resource landscape.
We've recently undergone a major upgrade with the launch of dkNET 3.0. Continue reading to find out about our new features.
dkNET 3.0 - What's new?
We've been listening carefully to our users and our community. Now, with dkNET 3.0, we're updating and expanding our services.
We've redesigned our 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.
How can dkNET help you?
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. In addition, we also provide access to protocols to allow you to find research resources used in the protocols.
What can dkNET help you with?
Newest Feature: Submit Information to Biomed Resource Watch (BRW) via Resource Reports
Biomed Resource Watch (BRW, https://scicrunch.org/ResourceWatch), released in June 2023, serves as a knowledge base for aggregating and disseminating known problems and performance information about research resources such as antibodies, cell lines, tools, model organisms, and more. We have integrated Resource Reports and BRW. Researchers can submit information about a specific resource and/or check information about a resource before planning their experiments via Biomed Resource Watch knowledge base-enhanced Resource Reports under the Rating and Alerts section.
What is Biomed Resource Watch?
Check out an example with ImageJ (RRID:SCR_003070)
Check out an example with beta-Actin (8H10D10) Mouse mAb antibody (RRID:AB_2242334)
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. In an upcoming release, we'll be providing guidance and resources for generating data management plans and understanding what FAIR means to you.
What can dkNET help you?
NIH policy on Rigor and Reproducibility
Learn about Research Data Management (dkNET, NIH and NIDDK resources)
We're hard at work on a powerful new FAIR 'omics platform for NIDDK-supported researchers. dkNET has partnered with the Signaling Pathways Project, Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers, and more publicly available online resources to create 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. Through detailed tutorials and by integrating different resources, the power of the dkNET Hypothesis Center can help answer questions of immediate relevance to your research.
What can dkNET help you?
Find bioinformatics core facilities
About dkNET
dkNET.org is an information portal created to provide information to connect the NIDDK community of researchers with scientific resources. The portal provides access to large pools of data and research resources relevant to the mission of The National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). dkNET is hosted at University of California San Diego, and is supported by NIH NIDDK grant 5U24DK097771-05.