Beacon v2 Reference Implementation: a toolkit to enable federated sharing of genomic and phenotypic data

Manuel Rueda; Roberto Ariosa; Mauricio Moldes; Jordi Rambla

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btac568

Beacon v2 Reference Implementation: a toolkit to enable federated sharing of genomic and phenotypic data

Bioinformatics. 2022 Sep 30;38(19):4656-4657. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac568.

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Manuel Rueda¹, Roberto Ariosa¹, Mauricio Moldes¹, Jordi Rambla¹

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¹ European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA) in the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona 08003, Spain.

PMID: 35980167
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac568

Abstract

Summary: Beacon v2 is an API specification established by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health initiative (GA4GH) that defines a standard for federated discovery of genomic and phenotypic data. Here, we present the Beacon v2 Reference Implementation (B2RI), a set of open-source software tools that allow lighting up a local Beacon instance 'out-of-the-box'. Along with the software, we have created detailed 'Read the Docs' documentation that includes information on deployment and installation.

Availability and implementation: The B2RI is released under GNU General Public License v3.0 and Apache License v2.0. Documentation and source code is available at: https://b2ri-documentation.readthedocs.io.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Beacon v2 Reference Implementation: a toolkit to enable federated sharing of genomic and phenotypic data

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