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Federated discovery and sharing of genomic data using Beacons.
The Beacon Project (beacon-project.io) is a GA4GH initiative that is
developing an open specification for genetic variation discovery and
sharing. The project is demonstrating the willingness of international
organizations to work together to define standards for, and actively engage
in, genomic data sharing. In the two years since the project’s inception, over
90 Beacons have been lit by 35 organizations serving over 200 datasets.
These datasets are searchable individually or in aggregate via the Beacon
Network (beacon-network.org), a federated search engine across the
world’s public beacons. Beacons serve large, diverse, valuable collections
of genomics datasets, showing the viability of a global federated model for
genomics data discovery and sharing through a simple and securable
technical protocol. With continued adoption, Beacons will produce a large
network of searchable genomics datasets whose global representation and
accessibility will unlock potential for new genomics-derived discoveries
and applications in medicine