MOLGENIS

Happy holidays from the MOLGENIS team! 🎄✨ A big thank you to all our partners and users for a great 2024. We appreciate your collaboration this year! We’ll be slowing down for the holidays but look forward to working with you again in the new year. Here’s to a fantastic 2025! 🌟

𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲! 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 We are excited to announce the 2025 DataSHIELD Conference, hosted by SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, taking place from 23–26 September 2025 at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. The conference will feature an engaging programme including beginner and advanced training workshops, talks, demonstrations, and discussions about the development and use of the DataSHIELD software. Mark your calendars and stay tuned—abstract submissions open in early March 2025, along with further details about the venue and programme. We look forward to welcoming you to Lausanne! -RW #DatasHIELD #SIB #Lausanne #Conference #FederatedAnalytics #AutomatedSDC #OpenSource #SaveTheDate

🌍 Connecting and Collaborating in Rare Diseases 🌍 Together with UMCG Genetics colleague Marrit Hitzert, we had the pleasure of attending the ERN ITHACA board meeting at a beautiful location in Bucharest. ERN ITHACA is a European Reference Network dedicated to bringing together clinical expertise and advancing knowledge for patients with Rare Malformation Syndromes, Intellectual, and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders. As part of this initiative, we developed the ILIAD Rare Diseases patient registry. During the meeting, Marije van der Geest presented the latest updates on this registry. A big shoutout to the Romanian team for their hospitality and excellent organization! 🇷🇴 #RareDiseases #ERNITHACA #PatientRegistry

ERN registries are repositories for health data on rare diseases, supporting advancements in care and research. We’re pleased to share that the ERN GENTURIS Registry is built using the MOLGENIS software!

Very proud of our newest PhD, Dr. Alexander Kellmann! 👏 This morning, Alexander successfully defended his thesis titled “Accelerating Health Research Using Linked Data and Virtual Reality”, supervised by Morris Swertz, Esther van Enckevort and Joeri van der Velde. Congratulations!

New publication out now! 🎉 We introduce MOLGENIS Armadillo, a lightweight server designed to facilitate federated analysis using frameworks like DataSHIELD. The paper highlights how federated analysis enables combining data from cohorts, biobanks, and registries without sharing sensitive individual-level data—solving challenges related to privacy, ethics, and scalability in collaborative health research. MOLGENIS Armadillo makes this approach accessible and user-friendly for data owners. Read the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/efT-tePy #FederatedAnalysis #Bioinformatics #HealthResearch

Our project has eight key exploitable results - otherwise known as mega deliverables! One of these is a Metadata Catalogue. The work to deliver this aimed to integrate and enrich a catalogue of datasets in a findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) data infrastructure to enable rapid and efficient #data discovery. Find out more in this blog. https://lnkd.in/ernwiNNp This work has been led by UMCG's Morris Swertz who will discuss the European Health Research Data and Sample Catalogue at tomorrow's #EHEN Stakeholder Event in Brussels, on behalf of the LongITools Project and ATHLETE Research Project. MOLGENIS, Eleanor Hyde, Marije van der Geest, Sylvain Sebert, Teija Juola, European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA)

👩💻 How do you find the right human #data or biological #samples for your #research? And how do you decide whether the collection you found is worth using? Or even worth reaching out for? 👩🔬 Connecting researchers with samples and data and accelerating #FAIR research, that is what MOLGENIS (UMCG) is all about!  We’ve set up a short 5-minute survey to find out how researchers find the samples and data they need. Are you a researcher in the field of #medical or #biomedical research and do you have trouble finding the right data and sample collections?   💡 Click the link below, complete the survey before December 19th and help us improve our catalogue services for the research community. It would mean a great deal to us! https://lnkd.in/e-MJDVnA #FAIRdata #Lifesciences #biobanking UMCG Cohort and Biobank Coordination Hub LongITools Project ATHLETE Research Project DataSHIELD

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of attending the Health-RI Knooppunten Dag in Nijmegen together with the UMCG Cohort and Biobank Coordination Hub and Datapoort! This event is always an excellent opportunity to connect with other partners and share plans for making health data more #FAIR #HealthRI #DataAccessibility #Collaboration

Kick-off is live for ERDERA today, with MOLGENIS joining on the mission to deliver better prevention, better diagnosis, better treatment to the over 30 million people living with a rare disease in Europe! 🥳 See https://lnkd.in/etYDBiSZ