GWAS Central data release March 2015

March 27th, 2015 | Posted by tb143 in News | Release | StudyRelease | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on GWAS Central data release March 2015)

GWAS Central has released additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers. These studies are described in recently published or “in press” papers.

GWAS data release August 2014

August 17th, 2014 | Posted by rkh7 in News | Release | StudyRelease | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on GWAS data release August 2014)

GWAS Central has released over 200 additional GWAS.

New GWAS Central database released with significant additional content

September 5th, 2013 | Posted by rkh7 in News | Release | StudyRelease | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on New GWAS Central database released with significant additional content)

GWAS Central Study database release 11 is released 5th September 2013

Version 11  of the study database includes significant new content increasing the number of GWAS from 1008 (34,131,526 p-values) to 1,605 studies (67,723,637 p-values, 2,935163 unique dbSNP markers). All phenotypes included in the studies have been annotated to MeSH controlled vocabulary with direct mappings to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) where available.

Version 11 includes data from:

NHGRI GWAS Catalog
Open Access Database of Genome-wide Association Results,
Japanese GWASdb
dbGaP
WTCCC
Broad
CGEMS
1958 British Birth Cohort
Magic Consortium
Spiro Consortium
Giant Consortium

Studies from publication supplementary data

Direct Submissions to GWAS Central including submissions from contacting study owners

Release 7

April 2nd, 2012 | Posted by rcf8 in Uncategorized | WebRelease - (Comments Off on Release 7)

Semantic Web and Linked Data support added:

  • Individual markers, phenotypes and results now output RDF and Turtle formats.
  • Nanopublications:  S/W resource using named graphs, and contain key results for each dataset outputs N-Quads format. Follows the nanopublication proposals suggested here.
  • Construction of a TripleStore with a SPARQL server at http://fuseki.gwascentral.org

Release 10

March 9th, 2012 | Posted by rcf8 in StudyRelease | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Release 10)

300 Studies (HGVST708-HGVST1012) from NHGRI Catalog and other sources.
Now contains study data from 1,008 studies (34,131,526 p-values).

Release 6

March 9th, 2012 | Posted by rcf8 in Uncategorized | WebRelease - (Comments Off on Release 6)

Complete site revamp including more intuitive search and Browser functions.
GWAS Mart data mining tool integrated into site through canned queries and GWAS Mart section.
Updated MeSH and HPO terms to most recent.
Human genome build 37 support through new versions of HGMD data, UCSC chromosome information and genes (hg19), lifting over HapMap data and updating the GWAS Central marker catalogue and association database.

Release 18

February 21st, 2012 | Posted by rcf8 in MarkerRelease | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Release 18)

62.3 million total marker records (update to dbSNP b135)

Release 9

March 16th, 2011 | Posted by rcf8 in StudyRelease | Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Release 9)

141 studies (HGVST569-HGVST709) from NHGRI GWAS Catalog and other sources.

Release 5

March 16th, 2011 | Posted by rcf8 in Uncategorized | WebRelease - (Comments Off on Release 5)

Improved news articles, extended online help and additional information related to more technical aspects of the system such as our web-services.

Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) based phenotype searches.

Release 4.1

October 27th, 2010 | Posted by rcf8 in Uncategorized | WebRelease - (Comments Off on Release 4.1)

Minor bug-fixes, including multiple resultset

Marker data exports