GEN2PHEN

Funding Agency: EC
Programme: HEALTH theme - contract no. 200754
Coordinator: University of Leicester, UK
Start Date: 01.01.2008
Expiration Date: 31.12.2012
Duration: 60 months
Total Budget: 11889367,00€
FORTH ICS Budget: 140242,00€
Related URL: http://www.gen2phen.org/project_summary.html
Partners: European Molecular Biology Laboratory (Germany), Fundacio IMIM (Spain),Leiden University Medical Center (Netherlands),Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (France),Karolinska Institutet (Sweden),Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (Greece),Commissariat a l’Energie Atomique (France),Erasmus University Medical Center (Netherlands),Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, University of Helsinki (Finland),University of Aveiro IEETA (Portugal),University of Western Cape (South Africa),Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India),Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Switzerland), University of Manchester (UK), BioBase GmbH (Germany), deCODE genetics ehf (Iceland), PhenoSystems SA (Belgium), Biocomputing Platforms Ltd Oy (Finland)
The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genetic variation databases towards increasingly holistic views into Genotype-To-Phenotype (G2P) data, and to link this system into other biomedical knowledge sources via genome browser functionality.The project will establish the technological building-blocks needed for the evolution of today’s diverse G2P databases into a future seamless G2P biomedical knowledge environment, by the projects end. This will consist of a European-centred but globally-networked hierarchy of bioinformatics GRID-linked databases, tools and standards, all tied into the Ensembl genome browser. The project has the following specific objectives: 1) To analyse the G2P field and thus determine emerging needs and practices 2)To develop key standards for the G2P database field 3)To create generic database components, services and integration infrastructures for the G2P database domain 4) To create search modalities and data presentation solutions for G2P knowledge 5) To facilitate the process of populating G2P databases 6) To build a major G2P internet portal 7)To deploy GEN2PHEN solutions to the community 8)To address system durability and long-term financing 9)To undertake a whole-system utility and validation pilot study