Variant‐level matching for diagnosis and discovery: Challenges and opportunities
Eliete da S. Rodrigues, Sean Griffith, Renan Paulo Martin, Corina Antonescu, Jennifer E. Posey, Zeynep Coban‐Akdemir, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Kimberly F. Doheny, James R. Lupski, David Valle, Michael J. Bamshad, Ada Hamosh, Assaf Sheffer, Jessica X. Chong, Yaron Einhorn, Miro Cupak, Nara Sobreira
Abstract
Here we describe MyGene2, Geno2MP, VariantMatcher, and Franklin; databases that provide variant-level information and phenotypic features to researchers, clinicians, healthcare providers and patients. Following the footsteps of the Matchmaker Exchange project that connects exome, genome, and phenotype databases at the gene level, these databases have as one goal to facilitate connection to one another using Data Connect, a standard for discovery and search of biomedical data from the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).