Call to clarify data-sharing rules
The European Comission is currently preparing a new legal framework to govern the protection of personal data. As European regulations may be loosely defined, it …
Largest Genetic study of inflammatory bowel disease
In two studies published today in Nature Genetics, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and fellow collaborators have identified a genetic variant that doubles …
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”. …
Genetic study identifies 14 new developmental disorders in children
In the largest ever genetic study of developmental disorders led by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute 14 previously undiagnosed disorders have been newly discovered. The …
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 data citation roadmap for scholarly data repositories
The standardisation of data citation is a shared goal for the majority of scholarly data repositories. A unified criteria, including persistent identifiers, standard machine-readable metadata …
Reproducible and reusable research
Data sharing is widely accepted to be a key factor when working towards a reproducible and transparent science. In order to find out whether journals …
Request Tracker migration
Request Tracker is the software EGA Helpdesk officers use for managing, replying and tracking all the tickets submitted by the users. Any communication sent to …
Fine-grained versioning of Webin XML schemas
European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) and European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) share some of the interfaces and services. Metadata associated to the archived files is usually submitted …
IHEC coordinated paper release
The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) has released a collection of 41 coordinated papers aiming to shed light on epigenetic processes. This major work, covering …