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 …
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Data Use Ontology (DUO) at EGA
For those of you that follow the updates of GA4GH you will have seen the unanimous approval of the steering committee for DUO to be …
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 …
European Genome-phenome Archive 10th Anniversary Symposium
The European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA), jointly hosted by the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), is celebrating its 10th anniversary …
The EGA, formal GA4GH Driver Project
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, an international alliance aiming to discuss and orchestrate the standards and frameworks for sharing genomic data, announced during …
A global coalition to sustain core data
Core-data resources, widespread services that are substantially increasing, are mostly deemed as unsustainable because these are largely funded by short-term grants. A call for a …
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. …
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 …