Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

We develop open standards and tools for genomics to benefit human health.

Technologies
python, c/c++, java, mongodb, cloud
Topics
web, genomics, bioinformatics, genetics, standards
We develop open standards and tools for genomics to benefit human health.

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. It brings together over 400 leading Genome Institutes and Centers with IT industry leaders to create global standards and tools for the secure, privacy respecting and interoperable sharing of Genomic data.

2018 Program

Successful Projects

Contributor
Dilshat Salikhov
Mentor
Luca Cherubin, Melanie Courtot
Organization
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Connect genomic sample discovery and sequencing data streaming
BioSamples is the EMBL-EBI central hub for metadata about samples whose raw data is hosted in reference archives such as EGA, ENA and EVA. The goal...
Contributor
Somesh Chaturvedi
Mentor
Matthew Laird, Andrew Yates-1
Organization
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Reference Sequence Retrieval API
This proposal consists of the development of a compliance test suite for Reference API servers with validation and checks for URLs, status codes,...
Contributor
Sarbjit Singh
Mentor
Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez, Jose Miguel Mut Lopez
Organization
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Simplify usage of VCF validation suite
vcf-validator is a suite of command-line tools that can validate and fix VCF files. The goal of my project is to overcome the limitations of the...
Contributor
Eric Keilty
Mentor
Miro Cupak, mfiume
Organization
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
Proposal: Global filesystem and search engine for genomics data
Data Object Service (DOS) is an emerging standard for specifying location of data across different cloud environments. The goal of DOS is to create a...