As a result of supplemental funding provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–5), PhenX is extending the Toolkit’s browse and search capabilities to better reflect the interrelatedness of measures across the research domains and collected statistics from Toolkit users (such as “top 10” measures). Measures are currently organized into various groups or collections to allow investigators to browse the Toolkit from a variety of perspectives. For example, in addition to being able to browse measures by “research domain,” users may identify measures of interest by browsing collections of measures such as “risk factors” or “life stages.” This approach could be extended to help Toolkit users assess complex diseases and conditions. For example, investigators could come to the Toolkit and find measures associated with Sjögren’s syndrome or metabolic syndrome even though the measures may have been selected by several different working groups. The Smart Query tool helps Toolkit users find measures using keywords or concepts and traverses the entire Toolkit to provide relevant measures for consideration. A data collection form and a data dictionary are
