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MOLGENIS

MOLGENIS

 A data platform to help researchers accelerate scientific collaboration and help bioinformaticians make researchers happy. Facility
A data platform to help researchers accelerate scientific collaboration and help bioinformaticians make researchers happy.
MOLGENIS is a modular web application for scientific data that helps users find, capture, exchange, manage, and analyse scientific data. It was developed within the UMCG by the Genomics Coordination Center.

Initially called 'molecular genetics information system', MOLGENIS was born from molecular genetics research but has now grown, thanks to many sponsors and contributors, to be used in many scientific areas, including biobanking, rare disease research, patient registries, and data catalogues. MOLGENIS provides researchers with user-friendly, scalable software infrastructures to capture, exchange, and exploit the large amounts of data being produced by scientific organisations all around the world.

MOLGENIS can be applied in many ways to produce successful data solutions. Examples of current applications created using MOLGENIS include:

  • UMCG Research Data Catalogue: This catalogue aims to increase the visibility of UMCG data and sample resources in order to stimulate their findability, accessibility, and reuse, three major pillars of the FAIR principles.
  • BBMRI-ERIC Directory: This directory is a tool that collects and makes available information about the biobanks throughout Europe that are willing to share their data and/or samples and to collaborate with other research groups.
  • Genturis registry: This is the European registry for patients with one of the Genetic Tumour Risk Syndromes (Genturis). The registry is affiliated to the European Reference Network for all patients with one of the genetic tumour risk syndromes (ERN GENTURIS).
  • Variant Interpretation Pipeline: This is a flexible human variant interpretation pipeline for rare disease that uses state-of-the-art pathogenicity prediction (CAPICE) and template-based interactive reporting to support and facilitate diagnostic decision-making.
  • Armadillo: This data portal allows data stewards to share datasets on a server and researchers to analyse these data, and those shared on other servers, using the DataSHIELD analysis tools.

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