Australian human genome initiatives are generating vast amounts of human genome data to understand the cause of complex diseases, improve diagnosis / early disease detection and identify tailored treatment options.

To achieve this, genomic data needs to be compared between multiple individuals and cohorts, often across efforts/jurisdictions, at national or global scales, and requires the genomic data to be findable, searchable, shareable, and linkable to analytical capabilities.

The Human Genome Platform Project aims to make it as easy as possible to securely and responsibly share human genome research data nationally and internationally. The project is building a ‘services toolbox’ that combines best practice technologies in human genome data sharing.

In this webinar the project team will discuss two important aspects of human genomic data sharing

1. the discovery of genomic cohorts and the GA4GH Beacon protocol that enables this functionality across multiple sites
2. the access management process whereby access to cohorts can be signed off by a responsible data access committees - and the REMS software system in place at the Garvan for doing this

Speakers:

Dr Christina Hall, Associate Director Training and Communications, Australian BioCommons

Dr Andrew Patterson, Human Genomics Data Technology Lead, University of Melbourne

Mustafa Syed, Bioinformatics System Integration Manager, Children’s Cancer Institute

Associate Professor, Sarah Kummerfeld, Director - Data Science, Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Who the webinar is for:

This webinar is for people who are interested in implementation of a similar system for secure and responsible data sharing whether that be for genomics or other applications.

How to join:

This webinar is free to join but you must register for a place in advance.

Register here