DEVELOPMENT RELEASE: This website is the development site for the Neuromics Explorer. Features and datasets are under continuous improvement and testing and thus, subject to change without notice.

Welcome to the Neuromics Explorer

Your comprehensive platform for exploring, analysing, and visualising multi-omic UK DRI datasets

Explore Datasets

Browse and analyse multi-omic datasets submitted by UK DRI researchers

Getting Started

Comprehensive guides and tutorials to help you get the most out of NeurOmics Explorer (NEx)
Data Filters and Threshold Options
Find and explore all available datasets by clicking the button below to get started.

Dataset Listings

Data Visualisation

Getting Started

Welcome to the Neuromics Explorer platform.

This guide will help you navigate and make the most out of the platform.

  1. Search genes or proteins → Search for your genes or proteins of interest across all available datasets
  2. Pick datasets → Select up to 4 datasets to explore at a time
  3. Explore results → Visualise and interact with the datasets through visualisation plots, expression tables, and filtering controls
  4. Export → View and manipulate plots and download relevant data

Platform walkthrough

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Privacy & cookies

Neuromics Explorer does not currently require personal details to be used. We store a small amount of anonymous usage data by default so we can see which datasets and features are useful, and where the platform breaks. You can switch that off below, and your choice is remembered in this browser.

Last updated September 2026 . This notice will be updated as the platform and its data protection review progress.

Your choices

Changes take effect immediately and apply to this browser only. If you clear your browser storage, the defaults will return.

Essential

Keeps the application working and remembers the choices you make on this platform. Without these the site cannot function, so they cannot be turned off.

Always on

NEx usage metrics

Which pages and data endpoints are used, how long requests take, and whether they succeed. Held by us, on UK DRI infrastructure, and never shared with anyone else. Turning this off stops the recording entirely.

Google Analytics

Aggregate visitor numbers used for UK DRI communications reporting. Google acts as our processor to monitor site traffic and may process this data outside the UK. We do not use it for advertising, or remarketing etc.

What we store, and why

What Why Where it is held Kept for
Session cookie
nex_session_id		 Groups the requests you make into a single visit so one visit is not counted many times. First-party cookie, set by our own server. Until you close your browser. Not set at all if you turn usage metrics off.
Your choice on this page
nex_consent, nex_metrics		 Remembers whether you opted out, so we can honour it on every page and on the server. Browser local storage, plus a first-party cookie so our server can see it. 6 months, or until you clear your browser storage.
Random visitor ID
nex_user_id		 A random identifier that lets us tell a returning visit from a new one. It is not linked to your name, or email. Browser local storage, plus a first-party cookie. 6 months. Removed immediately, and replaced by a value that lasts only for the current tab, if you turn usage metrics off.
Usage metrics
Date and time, the page or data endpoint requested, the response code, how long it took, your browser's user-agent string, the referring page address, and a yes/no flag for whether a search took place.		 Shows which datasets and features are actually used, and surfaces errors and any slow queries so we can fix them. usage_metrics.sqlite3, a separate database not shared with any third party. No automatic deletion is in place during this release. We aim to introduce a 13-month limit.
Google Analytics
_ga, _ga_<id>		 Aggregate visitor and page-view counts for UK DRI communications reporting. Google Analytics 4. Google is our processor and may process the data outside the UK. Advertising and personalisation signals are switched off. Up to 2 years (Google's default), or until you clear your cookies.

What we do not store

  • The genes and proteins you search for. We record only that a search happened, never the terms. One exception is worth knowing: if you arrive by following a shared Neuromics Explorer link, the referring address we log can contain the gene names in that link.
  • Names, email addresses, passwords or accounts. There are none to store in this release.
  • Your IP address, in normal operation. The random visitor ID is used instead, precisely so that we do not need it.

Your identifier

We have no way of finding your records unless you tell us this value, because it is the only thing that links them together. Quote it if you ask us to delete your usage data.

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Email ukdri-informatics@ucl.ac.uk with this value and we will delete the matching rows. A self-service delete button is planned for a future release.

Your rights and who to contact

Who is responsible
Neuromics Explorer is built and run by the Core Informatics team at the UK Dementia Research Institute (UK DRI), where UK DRI Ltd is the data controller.
Our basis for holding usage data
Legitimate interests: understanding how a research platform is used so that it can be maintained and improved. We have kept what we collect to the minimum needed for that.
What you can ask for
A copy of what we hold about you, correction of it, deletion of it, or that we stop holding it at all. The switches above give you the last of these immediately; for the others, email us with your identifier.
How to reach us
ukdri-informatics@ucl.ac.uk
If you are unhappy with our response
You can speak with the UK DRI Data Protection Officer at
DPO@ukdri.ac.uk
Or you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint .