Rare Diseases services

The ELIXIR Service Bundle "Assessing Molecular Pathogenicity for Rare Diseases" (AMP4RD) aims to define the procedures and guidelines for the annotation and interpretation of genetic variants in the human genome. Our initiative aims to implement an integrated infrastructure for characterizing the relationship between genotype and phenotype both from the clinical and research perspectives, and  deliver computing workflows and tools for the annotation and interpretation of genetic variants.

The ELIXIR Trainground for Rare Diseases Service Bundle is intended as a non-commercial alternative to cloud learning management systems (LMS) that are used for training in the field of genomic analysis. Our platform, the ELIXIR-SI eLearning Platform (EeLP), brings together a cloud (tools, pipelines and services), repository for learning materials, interactive online teaching features, and user management with ELIXIR AAI through a single-access point.

The analysis workflows in the systems biology Service Bundle for rare diseases cover a variety of tasks that are demanded for rare disease data analysis.  For example, it is possible to collect biomedical expert knowledge, e.g. from published papers, databases etc., and make the results machine readable for pathway and network analysis and to link it with information from other databases.

The Service Bundles were developed together and within the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP-RD). For each of the tasks a concept map was published, we expect these to be extended and new maps to be added in the future.