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GWAS Central data release April 2017

tb143 — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:35:34 +0000

GWAS Central has released additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers. These studies are described in recently published or “in press” papers.

GWAS Central data release December 2016

tb143 — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 10:13:07 +0000

GWAS Central has released additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers. These studies are described in recently published or “in press” papers.

GWAS Central data release January 2016

tb143 — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 14:22:34 +0000

GWAS Central has released additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers. These studies are described in recently published or “in press” papers.

GWAS Central data release March 2015

tb143 — Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:46:12 +0000

GWAS Central has released additional studies that have been submitted directly by researchers. These studies are described in recently published or “in press” papers.

GWAS Central study meta-data available for use in data citation research

rkh7 — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 13:55:41 +0000

GWAS Central provides a Study meta-data file for use in data citation research, tracking researcher contributions and data discovery projects.

Please see http://help.gwascentral.org/data/gwas-central-study-meta-data/ for more details and to gain access to the August 2014 dataset.

GWAS data release August 2014

rkh7 — Sun, 17 Aug 2014 07:42:39 +0000

GWAS Central has released over 200 additional GWAS.

New GWAS Central database released with significant additional content

rkh7 — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:49:54 +0000

GWAS Central Study database release 11 is released 5th September 2013

Version 11 of the study database includes significant new content increasing the number of GWAS from 1008 (34,131,526 p-values) to 1,605 studies (67,723,637 p-values, 2,935163 unique dbSNP markers). All phenotypes included in the studies have been annotated to MeSH controlled vocabulary with direct mappings to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) where available.

Version 11 includes data from:

NHGRI GWAS Catalog
Open Access Database of Genome-wide Association Results,
Japanese GWASdb
dbGaP
WTCCC
Broad
CGEMS
1958 British Birth Cohort
Magic Consortium
Spiro Consortium
Giant Consortium

Studies from publication supplementary data

Direct Submissions to GWAS Central including submissions from contacting study owners

GWAS Mart Tutorial available

rkh7 — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 08:19:30 +0000

A short tutorial on how to use the GWAS Mart is now available in the Help section of the website.

Please see the following page for further details:

http://www.gwascentral.org/info/how-to/how-to-use-gwas-mart/

GWAS Central has been included in the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index

rkh7 — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 12:51:28 +0000

GWAS Central has been included in the Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index (DCI) to aid data discovery. DCI allows GWAS Central data to be discoverable to other researchers around the world

Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index

“Data Citation Index fully indexes a significant number of the world’s leading data repositories of critical interest to the scientific community, including over two million data studies and datasets. The records for the datasets, which include authors, institutions, keywords, citations and other metadata, are connected to related peer-reviewed literature indexed in the Web of Knowledge^SM.”

GWAS Central database summary updated in NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection

rkh7 — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 14:42:03 +0000

GWAS Central database summary updated in NAR Molecular Biology Database Collection highlighting developments from the past year

http://www.oxfordjournals.org/nar/database/summary/131