How to join the beacon network

[Mark de Haan]

Hello!

We are designing a dynamic beacon repository where you can create your own organization + beacon ontop of a list of datasets.

URLS will be /beacon/{beaconID} for info and /beacon/{beaconID}/query for querying underlying datasets/

I saw two threads about this particular question already, but I did not see an answer inside those threads.

How do you join the beacon network?

Cheers,

Mark de Haan

University Medical Center Groningen

Netherlands

[chiar...@scilifelab.se]

That's a very nice initiative! 

How will you link the datasets you want to share to your newly created beacon, you'll add the link to your database server? 

What I personally did to join the Beacon network is to write an email to Miro Cupak at dnastack.

Chiara

[Mark de Haan]

Our database system allows you to import data @runtime via a custom excel format, CSV, or VCF files. 

These imported files are stored as tables in a PostGreSQL database.

The beacon table has a reference to the list of these dynamically created tables, so you can create a

row in the beacon table via a web form and select a finite number of tables as beacon datasets from a dropdown menu.

When the beacon is queried, it will use that query to do counts inside its referenced beacon datasets, eventually telling you whether the query found anything.

I used a subset of the Beacon schema because our data is dynamic, and we do not want to force datasets to contain e.g. variant counts or assembly IDs.

But thx for the tip, I will drop an email @Miro Cupak

Cheers,

Mark

[chiar...@scilifelab.se]

You're welcome! :)

Chiara

[Miro Cupak]

Hi Mark,

as mentioned below, the process is manual at the moment (just email me the details). An automated solution allowing you to manage your beacons yourself is in the making.

Cheers,
Miro