Gen3 Community Forum to showcase how the BioCommons uses Gen3
Australian BioCommons partners with the team behind Gen3 at the Center for Translational Data Science, University of Chicago, USA to custom build several data commons for use by large Australian national research consortia.
We help convene the international Gen3 Community Forum, and the next online event ‘Data Modeling in Gen3 Data Commons’ is coming up on Friday July 7, 6.30 am AEST (check in your timezone). Our Human Genomics Data Specialist, Marion Shadbolt, will deliver a presentation on streamlining Gen3 data dictionaries.
Marion’s presentation will outline progress from the BioCommons’ partnership with the Precision Medicine Flagship of the Australian Cardiovascular Alliance (ACvA). The team have been using Gen3 to develop a data dictionary for the Australian Cardiovascular Disease Data Commons, using a google sheet as input and fully automating the workflow to edit, test, validate and publish Gen3 data dictionaries.
Gen3 can be customised for a wide variety of projects and use cases, and there will be three additional presentations from other data commons operators, discussing how they have created their dictionaries and describing the tools or processes they use for updating and configuring them.
The Gen3 platform consists of open-source software services that support the emergence of healthy data ecosystems by enabling the interoperation and creation of cloud-based data resources, including data commons and analysis workspaces. Gen3 aims to accelerate and democratise the process of scientific discovery by making it easy to manage, analyse, harmonise, and share large and complex datasets in the cloud.