Providing access to COVID-19 data: One year later
EGA joins COVID-19 response efforts On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Four months later, the …
News and reviews on topics from EGA domain of interest (i.e.: human genomics data management and leveraging)
EGA joins COVID-19 response efforts On 11 March 2020 the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Four months later, the …
It has been already several years since we discovered that microbial therapeutics like Faecal Microbiota Transplantation can be used to treat Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and Inflammatory …
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 …
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. …
Archiving public data is a mandatory step before submitting a manuscript to the majority of the journals. However, information on whether and how researchers can …
Recently, NHGRI hosted a two-day workshop on the topic of sharing summary statistics from genomic data. Participants were asked to weigh the benefits and risks …
Nature has recently published a Careers article, written by Virginia Gewin (1), where the pros and cons of biological data sharing are deeply analysed. On …
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 …
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 …
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 …