LifeLines-DEEP Gut MGS

Access to the LLDEEP microbiome project data

Funded by the Department of genetics of the University Medical Center Groningen and the Top Institute Food and Nutrition LLDEEP, the LLDEEP microbiome project Project has deeply phenotyped 1500 participants of the Dutch Lifelines cohort. The Project is led by a consortium from the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG).The primary goal of the LLDEEP microbiome project is to get insight in the relations between microbiome variation, genetic variation, metabolic and phenotype variation. The Consortium is willing to consider applications from third party researchers for access to the anonymized sequence data generated by the Project.Access to the LLDEEP microbiome project data will be granted to qualified researchers for approved use and will be governed by the provisions laid out in the informed consent of the LLDEEP cohort, the Data Access Procedure and the terms of the Data Access Agreement. A qualified researcher refers to a senior investigator who is employed or legitimately affiliated with an academic, non-profit or government institution and who has a track record in the field.Access to Project Data is available by application to the Lifelines DEEP Project Data Access Committee. Researchers granted access to project data must feedback the results of their research to the Lifelines DEEP microbiome project, after publication in accordance with the LLDEEP publication policy set forth in the Data Access Agreement. Access is conditional upon availability of data and on signed agreement by the researcher(s) and the responsible employing institution to abide by the policies and conditions related to publication, data ownership, data return, intellectual property rights, data disposal, ethical approval, confidentiality and commercialization referred herein.