Ms Marion Shadbolt1, Tiffany Boughtwood3, Jeff Christiansen1, Joe Copty7, Mark Cowley6, Kylie Davies2, Matthew Downton9, Kelsey Druken9, Ben Evans9, Clara Gaff8, Andrew Gilbert5, Christina Hall1, Oliver Hofmann11, Jessica Holliday1, Warren Kaplan9, Ross Koufariotis10, Sarah Kummerfeld7, Conrad Leonard10, Angela Lin6, Andrew Lonie1, Heath Marks2, Siobhann McCafferty4, David Munro9, Andrew Patterson11, John Pearson10, Bernard Pope1, Shyamsundar Ravishankar7, Florian Reisinger11, Andrew Robinson9, Victor San Kho Lin11, John Scullen2, Mustafa Syed6, Kamile Taouk6, Andrew Treloar4, Jingbo Wang9, Marie Wong-Erasmus6, Scott Wood10
1Australian BioCommons, , , 2Australian Access Federation (AAF), , , 3Australian Genomics (AG), , , 4Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), , , 5Bioplatforms Australia (BPA), , , 6Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI) and the Zero Childhood Cancer Program (ZERO), , , 7Garvan Institute of Medical Research, , , 8Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, , , 9National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), , , 10QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (QIMRB), , , 11The University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research (UMCCR), ,
The Human Genomes Platforms Project (HGPP) aims to leverage best practice technologies and global standards to accelerate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reuseable (FAIR) human genomics data sharing in Australia. Involving leading Australian human genomics research organisations, along with national computing infrastructure partners, the HGPP is breaking down silos and facilitating the deployment of much needed genomic data sharing infrastructure in Australia.
The main project themes are: virtual cohort assembly; data access committee (DAC) automation; federated identity and access management; data and metadata archiving; and documentation, communications and training. We are collaborating with partners internationally to bring best practice technologies to Australia.
This includes:
-Investigating emerging Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards including Beacon v2 for virtual cohort assembly and Passports to enable access to data
-Assessing software including Resource Entitlement Management System (REMS) and Data Use Oversight System (DUOS) to facilitate the Data Access Request and Approval process undertaken by DACs
-Establishing a national life science authentication service using CILogon
-Investigating the feasibility of a Federated European Genome-Phenome Archive (FEGA) node in Australia
-Ensuring all aspects of the project are well-documented as well as hosting webinars and training sessions to ensure outputs are easily adopted by the community
Here we introduce the HGPP, an Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) and Bioplatforms Australia funded project with in-kind contributions from partner organisations. We describe our achievements to date, outline our upcoming plans for the project and how they will improve the landscape of human genomics data sharing for Australian researchers
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