The National Alzheimer’s Disease Coordinating Center (NACC) just released the first version of their Multimodal Query Tool (MQT v1), which is now live and freely available to the global research community via the NACC Data Front Door (https://lnkd.in/e5uyCqwu). The MQT allows researchers to search, visualize, and access integrated multimodal data…
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NIAGADS Will be at the Festival of Genomics in Boston on 6/24 and 6/25!
If you are attending the Festival of Genomics, being held in Boston, MA from June 24-25, 2025, check out NIAGADS while you are there. NIAGADS PI, Li-San Wang, PhD has been invited to speak and chair the session with his talk at the Festival of Genomics. Check out his session,…
NIH Seeks Public Input on Responsible Development of Innovative AI Tools
NIH is committed to advancing novel AI approaches that have the potential to accelerate research and improve the health of the public. As such, NIH is seeking input from the public on how to develop and share new generative AI tools while maintaining the highest privacy protections for biomedical research…
Implementation Update for Data Management and Access Practices Under the Genomic Data Sharing Policy
On April 2, 2025, updates to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Data Management and Access Practices under the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy took effect. These changes are relevant to users of NIH controlled-access data. NIH is making changes to modernize the security standards provided for NIH controlled-access data…
New Data Available in the Alzheimer’s GenomicsDB!
This release expands the database to include: ADSP 36K R4 Variants and Annotations New and updated records for each R4 variant are now available. These include the most recent ADSP annotations, as well as updated associations from the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog. Search for a specific variant of interest to browse…
ADSP Umbrella Dataset October 2024 Update: New Files Added to NG00067
New files have been released in ng00067.v13 for the R2 20K Whole Exome Sequencing (WES) and R3 17K and R4 36K Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS). To apply for this dataset, see our application guide. For those who already have access to NG00067, files will be automatically available in compliance with…
A Year of Support and Resource Improvements at NIAGADS
The last 12 months have been a year of growth for user support and resources at NIAGADS. The team was hard at work developing and improving documentation, tutorials, and more. Ticket System NIAGADS now has a dedicated ticket system for users to submit questions and technical issues. The ticket system…
Looking to Explore AD Genomics? Check out NIAGADS Alzheimer’s Genomics Database
The Alzheimer’s Genomics Database is a user-friendly AD-centric interactive knowledgebase and genome browser, which provides unrestricted access to GWAS summary statistics from the NIAGADS repository, as well as to annotated variants called from ongoing the Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project’s (ADSP) joint-genotype calling efforts. We sat down with Dr. Emily Greenfest-Allen,…
Updates to the Data Access Request Management (DARM) and Data Sharing Service (DSS) Portals
The NIAGADS team has been hard at work writing and testing code to improve user experience in the DARM and DSS portals. We are happy to share that the following features are now available to users: DARM Administrator Role Added – Investigators can now designate “Administrators” to complete data applications…
15 Genotyping Array Datasets From the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRC) Now Available!
We are thrilled to announce the release of 15 much-anticipated genotyping array datasets from participants recruited from the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRC)! These datasets, ADC1 through ADC15, are now available on the NIAGADS Data Sharing Service (DSS). DNA was prepared by the National Centralized Repository for Alzheimer’s Disease and…