2015-2016 Beacon project

The goal of the project is to provide consent-based access to genomic data in the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA, a joint project of EMBL-EBI and the CRG in Barcelona) as well as national resources in Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands by establishing GA4GH Beacons.

The project is funded through ELIXIR Hub a series of Implementation Studies. The first of these focused on establishing Beacons within ELIXIR Nodes and resulted in six ELIXIR Beacons in:

Included within this was a Security Workshop held in Hinxton (31 May - 1 June 2016) (agenda & slides).

The study is now completed, the details are available in the End report. This project helped established a close relationship between ELIXIR and GA4GH (see the news story).

Webinar summarising the outcomes

The work was picked up in further Implementation Studies (2017, 2018).

The ongoing work on the Beacon Project is coordinated by the ELIXIR Human Data Community.

Duration: 

1 September 2015 to 31 December 2016

Nodes involved: 

Platform/Community: