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)
The study is now completed, the details are available in the End report. This project helped established a close relationship between ELIXIR and GA4GH. (link)
| The outcome of this study is summarised in a webinar |
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
