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Sharing and standards workshop

With the aim of increasing the availability, quality and utility of GWAS summary statistics, the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog organised a community workshop to address the standards, infrastructure and incentives required to promote and enable broader sharing. The workshop was held via webinar in June 2020 and brought together representatives from the broad stakeholder space, including users of summary statistics, data generators, methods and tools developers, cohort representatives, resource providers, funders and Journal editors.

Workshop materials, including pre-workshop survey responses, videos of each session and workshop outputs can be accessed below.

Workshop organisation​

Workshop briefing document

Workshop agenda

Workshop attendees

Videos of workshop sessions​

Introduction and keynote chaired by Helen Parkinson, keynote by Teri Manolio on "The history and future of the GWAS Catalog"

Data content chaired by Inês Barroso

FAIR chaired by Robert Carroll

Incentivisation of sharing chaired by Orli Bahcall

Infrastructure requirements chaired by Michael Inouye

Data update cycle chaired by Raymond Walters

Forward Look chaired by Stephen Rich

Discussion and summary chaired by Helen Parkinson

Supporting material​

Pre-workshop survey responses

Analysis of publications from 2019 and 2020 where the summary statistics could not be shared by the GWAS Catalog because of barriers

Workshop outputs​

FAIR indicators for GWAS data

Proposed metadata standard reporting elements

Post workshop working groups with aims