Genomics England, with the consent of participants and the support of the public, is creating a lasting legacy for patients, the NHS and the UK economy, through the sequencing of 100,000 genomes.

It is owned and funded by the Department of Health & Social Care and its four main aims are to:

  • Create an ethical and transparent programme based on consent
  • Bring benefit to patients and set up a genomic medicine service for the NHS
  • Enable new scientific discovery and medical insights
  • Kick-start the development of a UK genomics industry.

Datasets

100,000 Genomes Project

The 100,000 Genomics Project was set up to sequence 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients with rare diseases, and their families, as well as patients with common cancers. The dataset is made available to Genomics England Clinical Interpretation Partnership (GeCIP) researchers and trainees and access is via a secure analysis environment hosted within the Genomics England datacentre – the Genomics England ‘Research Environment’.

Analytical tools and applications are available within the Research Environment. The dataset includes de-identified, linked information for each participant covering Genome sequence data; phenotype/clinical data; Variant call files and Hospital Episode Statistics data.

Genomics England datasets in the Innovation Gateway

Further Information

Visit: http://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/

Email: info@genomicsengland.co.uk

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Work that Genomics England has been involved in:
Project
Improving transparency in data use
Alliance members are committed to being transparent around their governance processes for accessing data and the approved uses of that data. As such, publishing a register of projects, studies and organisations that have used data under their custodianship is a vital demonstration of this. The work of the Alliance...
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Next steps on the journey to Trusted Research Environments
31 July 2020
The UK Health Data Research Alliance Board agreed to move beyond the ‘Green Paper’ phase of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) programme at its meeting on 23 July 2020.   We are now pleased to publish our updated paper which is the result of a collaborative community effort. There was agreement in the concept and...
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UK’s leading health organisations form Health Data Research Alliance to transform future health and care
8 February 2019
The NHS in England, Scotland and Wales along with Health and Social Care Northern Ireland, NHS Digital, Genomics England, Health Data Research UK, Public Health England and Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) announced today that they will create a non-profit association to accelerate progress in medicine and health.