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:
- ELIXIR Belgium
- ELIXIR Finland (the first ELIXIR Beacon connected to the ELIXIR AAI to demonstrate registered data access level)
- ELIXIR France
- ELIXIR Switzerland: Beacon Array Map, DIPG Beacon
- ELIXIR Sweden
- European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
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.