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 …
Posts in category Scientific news
News and reviews on topics from EGA domain of interest (i.e.: human genomics data management and leveraging)
Gut microbiome dynamics unravelled with metagenomics sequencing
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 …
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. …
Statements for data restriction
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 …
NHGRI Workshop on Sharing Summary Statistics from Genomic Data
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 …
An open mind on open data
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …