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New GWAS Central publication

January 18th, 2023 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on New GWAS Central publication)

The publication entitled GWAS Central: an expanding resource for finding and visualising genotype and phenotype data from genome-wide association studies is included in the 2023 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue. It describes recent developments to the database, including the new Homology search interfaces that allow harmonised searches for GWAS and International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) mouse knockout genes associated with phenotypes of interest.


The publication is indexed by PubMed and available as open access full text.

GWAS Central data release July 2022

July 6th, 2022 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on GWAS Central data release July 2022)

GWAS Central has released over 700 additional studies. These studies have been submitted directly by researchers and imported from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

Study metadata files for use in data citation research, tracking researcher contributions, and data discovery projects accompanies this update. See the GWAS Central Study metadata help page for more details and to access the July 2022 metadata release.

GWAS Central data release January 2021

January 12th, 2021 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on GWAS Central data release January 2021)

GWAS Central has released 317 additional studies. These studies have been submitted directly by researchers and imported from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.


Study metadata files for use in data citation research, tracking researcher contributions, and data discovery projects accompanies this update. See the GWAS Central Study metadata help page for more details and to access the January 2021 metadata release.

GWAS Central awarded ELIXIR Node Service status

February 3rd, 2020 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on GWAS Central awarded ELIXIR Node Service status)

GWAS Central has been awarded Node Service status by the UK node of ELIXIR. ELIXIR-UK Node Services support the bioinformatics and broader biological research communities by providing training and resources that help researchers to find and share data, exchange expertise, and agree on best practices at national, European and international levels.

https://elixiruknode.org/services/elixir-uk-services/gwas-central/

New GWAS Central publication

January 8th, 2020 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on New GWAS Central publication)

The publication entitled GWAS Central: a comprehensive resource for the discovery and comparison of genotype and phenotype data from genome-wide association studies is included in the 2020 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue. It describes recent developments to the database and interface, and outlines future plans.

The publication is indexed by PubMed and available as open access full text.

GWAS Central data release January 2020

January 7th, 2020 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on GWAS Central data release January 2020)

GWAS Central has released 193 additional studies. These studies have been submitted directly by researchers and imported from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

A meta-data file for use in data citation research, tracking researcher contributions, and data discovery projects accompanies this update. See http://help.gwascentral.org/data/gwas-central-study-meta-data/ for more details and to access the January 2020 meta-data release.

GWAS Central data release August 2019

August 19th, 2019 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on GWAS Central data release August 2019)

GWAS Central has released over 500 additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers and imported from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.

This update is accompanised with a meta-data file available for use in data citation research, tracking researcher contributions, and data discovery projects. See http://help.gwascentral.org/data/gwas-central-study-meta-data/ for more details and to gain access to the August 2019 meta-data release.

Updated interfaces and new GWAS phenotype content

August 9th, 2019 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on Updated interfaces and new GWAS phenotype content)

GWAS Central has been updated with revised interfaces and new phenotype content. All GWAS phenotypes are now annotated to the latest versions of the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) controlled vocabulary, and the Human Phenotype Ontology. We have updated the phenotype ontology tree browsers as well as all report and results interfaces.

In addition, we have released a new PhenoMap tab which provides tools for enabling the discovery of studies using five phenotype ontologies used across eight GWAS-related databases. Ontology terms and synonyms can be searched, and the ontology hierarchies browsed. For a list of the databases and ontologies used, see PhenoMap Content.

We welcome your feedback – please email help@gwascentral.org.

Update to GWAS Central meta-data used in data citation research

September 28th, 2018 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on Update to GWAS Central meta-data used in data citation research)

GWAS Central provides a Study meta-data file for use in the Data Citation Index (DCI). We make the meta-data file available for use in data citation research, tracking researcher contributions and data discovery projects.

Please see http://help.gwascentral.org/data/gwas-central-study-meta-data/ for more details and to gain access to the September 2018 dataset.

GWAS Central data release September 2018

September 13th, 2018 | Posted by tb143 in News - (Comments Off on GWAS Central data release September 2018)

GWAS Central has released over 1400 additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers and imported from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog.