Omics Discovery Index (OmicsDI) enables users to search across multiple repositories rather than performing searches at each one (Perez-Riverol et al., 2017). One example use case is searching for human data across the main 3 human data repositories, EGA, dbGaP, JGA which is not otherwise possible. It may also be useful for searching across ArrayExpress and GEO, the two main repositories that house functional genomics data. The index currently contains ~2.7 million datasets from 24 repositories. The databases currently indexed can be found on their website.
References
- Perez-Riverol, Y., Bai, M., da Veiga Leprevost, F., Squizzato, S., Park, Y. M., Haug, K., Carroll, A. J., Spalding, D., Paschall, J., Wang, M., del-Toro, N., Ternent, T., Zhang, P., Buso, N., Bandeira, N., Deutsch, E. W., Campbell, D. S., Beavis, R. C., Salek, R. M., … Hermjakob, H. (2017). Discovering and linking public omics data sets using the Omics Discovery Index. Nature Biotechnology, 35(5), 406–409. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3790
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Australian BioCommons / University of Melbourne