Federated discovery and sharing of genomic data using Beacons
The Beacon Project is a Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH) initiative that enables genomic and clinical data sharing across federated networks. The project …
Posts in category Projects
News, details and outcomes about projects the EGA is participating
EuCANCan: EUropean-CANadian Cancer network
The EUropean-CANadian Cancer network (EuCANCan) is a project aiming to develop a federated network of aligned and interoperable infrastructures for the homogeneous analysis, management and …
GA4GH and ELIXIR Release V1.0.0 of Beacon API with increased security measures
At the beginning of last year, ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) announced an expanded partnership for the Beacon project. For …
H3Africa Project
The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) aims to facilitate a contemporary research approach to the study of genomics and environmental determinants of common …
EGA, key partner of the European Open Science Cloud
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) is a project funded by the European Commission in order to set up a virtual an open environment for …
ELIXIR and IMI Oncotrack study – Webinar
The IMI OncoTrack project aims to systematically collect different data types on colon cancer and use in silico methods to analyse the “model cancer cell”. …
ELIXIR and GA4GH partnership expanded for the Beacon Project
An extension of the partnership between ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to develop the Beacon project has been recently announced. …
First Local EGA Developers Workshop
The 1st Local EGA Developers Workshop has taken place on October 10th to October 12th at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK. This …
EGA cryptographic code
All the data submitted and archived at the European Genome-Phenome Archive is subject to controlled access. Therefore, important security and encryption measures must be applied …
A federated ecosystem for sharing genomic, clinical data
Science has published a Perspective article authored by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. The article summarizes the motivation, goals and highligths of such …