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GA4GH

An overview of selected GA4GH data standards, see GA4GH website for all standards.

Standard Description Workstream version / status docs github publication other resources
Phenopackets Define and share individual characteristics, demographics and phenotypes in a standard format Clin/Pheno 2.0.0 Jacobsen et al. 2022
Ladewig et al. 2022
ISO
Beacon Query across cohort, individual and variant metadata Discovery 2.0.0 Rambla et al. 2022
Rueda et al. 2022
Beacon RI
Pedigree Characterise familial relationships Clin/Pheno under review
VRS Variation representation Characterise variants in a standard format. Genomic Knowledge Standards 1.2 Wagner et al. 2021 vrs-python
DRS Data repository service Protocol for accessing data files Cloud 1.2.0
WES Workflow Execution Service API to enable users to submit workflow requests to workflow execution systems Cloud 1.0.1 wes starter kit
Passports Protocol for defining tokens for data access DURI 1.2 Voisin et al. 2021 ui starter kit
broker starter kit
DUO: Data Use Ontology Translates consent form clause to machine readable ontology DURI 2021-02-23 Lawson et al. 2021 OLS
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