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.
The Beacon project, presented few months ago in EGA Blog, is an open sharing platform that builds the infrastructures that enable genomic centres to share human data without compromising its security. The continuation of such collaboration will improve the discoverability of European genomic data and will significantly lower the time it takes to share data.
Existing collaboration between ELIXIR and GA4GH Beacons already resulted in six ELIXIR Beacons in Sweden, Finland, France, Switzerland, Belgium and in the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA).
The future directions of this partnership can be summarised in the following points:
Further information can be read on GenomeWeb and ELIXIR-Europe.
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