Funding for key data resources in jeopardy
Genomics and protein free-to-use data resources are widely considered crucial among geneticist and biomedical researchers. As a free-of-charge genomic archive, the EGA considers this pertinent …
Solutions for long-term management of translational data
ELIXIR and OncoTrack, an Innovative Medicine Initiative (IMI) project to improve the diagnosis and treatment of colon cancer, are working together on a joint project …
Non-Reproducible Science
Lack of experiment reproducibility is one of the main causes of frustration in today’s research. Loads of time and resources are spent in a daily …
Consent Codes: Upholding Standard Data Use Conditions
Several EGA members have recently participated in a PLOS Genetics publication (1), result of a deep examination of variation in data use conditions, based on …
Submission REST API is live
A new Application Program Interface (API) has been launched earlier this month by the EGA developers. This new feature enables not only performing EGA submissions …
EGA Winter Summit 2016
The EGA Winter Summit 2016 (#EWS16) was held in Barcelona on January 27th to 29th, 2016. The whole EGA team, formed by members of the European Bioinformatics …
Elixir Excelerate kicks-off
The EGA has participated in the Elixir Excelerate kick-off meeting
11th ICGC Scientific Workshop
The EGA has participated in the 11th ICGC Scientific Workshop that happened at Mumbai, India, during the first week of December. (More details at ICGC …
The final phase of the 1000 Genomes Project
In the October 1st 2015 issue, Nature publishes a couple of papers which analyse 2,504 genomes from 26 populations, and provide the most comprehensive view …