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Learn how GA4GH helps expand responsible genomic data use to benefit human health.
Data Repository Service (DRS)
Provides a standardised set of data retrieval methods
In order to analyse genomic data in the cloud, a researcher must use an access tool to retrieve the file. Today, however, data repositories are crowded with files. As a result, the process for retrieving a data set is complex and inefficient. To address this challenge, the GA4GH Cloud Work Stream has developed the Data Repository Service (DRS) API, which provides a standard way to retrieve a dataset regardless of the repository’s underlying architecture.
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Benefits
- Provides a standardised set of data access methods that are agnostic to cloud infrastructure
- Allows for data access regardless of storage location or how the data is managed
Target users
Researchers, data custodians, and developers
Image summary: DRS helps researchers retrieve any data from any analysis tool.
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Work Stream
LATEST VERSION
Product Leads
- Brian O’Connor
- Michael Lukowski
Staff Contact
Tools & Platforms
Publications
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Dive deeper into this product! Healthcare and research ecosystems contain potentially useful data to researchers and clinicians. Yet due to the varying and complex architecture of different data repositories, they often need custom tools to retrieve and work with genomic datasets. A standard is necessary to support both data producers in making their data available and researchers in accessing the data in a streamlined way. DRS maps a logical ID to a means for physically retrieving the data represented by the ID.
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12 Mar 2024
The document describes the high-level 2024 goals for the GA4GH Cloud Work Stream.
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Working meeting for the development of the GA4GH Cloud APIs such as DRS, WES, TES and TRS.
Meets on the second Monday of each month at 6pm BST. Complemented by the Cloud Work Stream meeting (late) meeting, which takes place on the 4th Monday of each month.
Monthly
Monday
18:00 UTC
1 Hour
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Version
27 Sep 2021
22 Jun 2020
7 Oct 2019
28 Apr 2019
22 Mar 2019
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Title
12 Mar 2024
15 Dec 2023
14 Sep 2023
8 Jun 2020
All of Us Research Program
Biomedical Research Hub (BRH)
Canadian Distributed Infrastructure for Genomics (CanDIG)
ELIXIR Cloud and AAI
ELIXIR Beacon
EpiShare
Human Cell Atlas
NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI)
NIH Cloud Platform Interoperability (NCPI) effort
NHLBI BioData Catalyst® (BDC)
Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed)
Autism Sharing Initiative
Don't see your name? Get in touch:
- Jeremy Adams
DNAstack - Dashrath Chauhan
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) - Kyle Ferriter
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Marc Fiume
DNAstack - Ian Fore
NIH National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) - David Glazer
Verily - Allison Heath
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Alexander Kanitz
University of Basel - Michael Lukowski
University of Chicago - Patrick Magee
DNAstack - Alice Mann
Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI) - Michele Mattioni
Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc. - Brian O'Connor
Sage Bionetworks - Jimmy Payyappilly
EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) - Shaikh Farhan Rashid
University Health Network, Canadian Distributed Infrastructure for Genomics (CanDIG) - Surya Saha
Seven Bridges Genomics, Inc. - David Steinberg
University of California, Santa Cruz - Jonathan Tedds
ELIXIR - Susheel Varma
Information Commissioner's Office - Douglas Voet
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Brian Walsh
Knight Diagnostic Laboratories, Oregon Health & Science University - Denis Yuen
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) - Christina Yung
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), Indoc Research
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