IMMUNOLOGY2026™ Conference Recordings For Attendees-ImmPort: An AI Eco-System for Reproducible Immunology Research

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The speaker introduced the IMPORT Data Repository, an NIH-funded resource for sharing immunology research and clinical trial data. IMPORT uses a consistent standardized data model to support cross-study analysis and combines many data types, including transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, CyTOF, and more. Data submitters get support for de-identification, harmonization, and submission through web forms, templates, APIs, and chatbots, while users can access data through search tools and programmatic APIs. IMPORT currently includes over 1,400 studies and 188,000 subjects across areas like vaccination, infection, transplantation, autoimmunity, and allergy. The talk also highlighted AI-enabled uses, including an LLM-based reproducibility framework that extracts claims from papers, links them to IMPORT data, and checks for missing or incomplete data. Finally, the speaker described AI-ready datasets, interoperability efforts, and tutorials to help researchers use the repository.

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Date April 18, 2026 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

Room 102

Session Computational Tool Development

Speaker Steven Kleinstein

Track Computational and Systems Immunology (COMP)

Year 2026

Keywords

IMPORT Data Repository

immunology research data

standardized data model

AI-enabled reproducibility

clinical trial data

April 18, 2026 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

102

Computational Tool Development

Steven Kleinstein

Computational and Systems Immunology (COMP)

2026