The European Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) project and Genome of Europe (GoE) have formally announced a strategic collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Understanding. This collaboration will stimulate knowledge exchange between the two projects to advance population genomics research in Europe and enable data access and analysis across participating countries.
Both EU projects are co-funded by the Digital Europe Programme to realise the 1+Million Genomes (1+MG) Initiative’s ambition of accelerating the deployment of genomic medicine at the European level and fostering the development of personalised prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The projects are built on the 1+MG Framework, which organises the recommendations, guidelines and best practices of European Union experts to realise the 1+MG initiative’s ambition.
The GoE project aims to establish a unique pan-European reference database comprising of a minimum of 100,000 genomes representative of European citizens and demonstrate long-term benefits to the use of genomic data in research, healthcare, and prevention.
The GDI project is establishing a federated, sustainable and secure infrastructure across participating countries to access data and its associated metadata. The GDI project demonstrates the benefits of the European Genomic Data Infrastructure to its stakeholders via use cases, including cancer, infectious diseases and population genomics.
The two projects will work collaboratively to make GoE data available via the GDI infrastructure. This involves addressing regulatory challenges of providing access across national borders to genome, health and clinical record data.
GDI and GoE look forward to working together to make European population genomic data accessible across borders.