The COVID-19 Data Portal: accelerating SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research through rapid open access data sharing

Peter W. Harrison(European Bioinformatics Institute), Rodrigo López(European Bioinformatics Institute), Nadim Rahman(European Bioinformatics Institute), Stefan Gutnick Allen(European Bioinformatics Institute), Raheela Aslam(European Bioinformatics Institute), Nicola Buso(European Bioinformatics Institute), Carla Cummins(European Bioinformatics Institute), Yasmin Fathy(European Bioinformatics Institute), Eloy Félix(European Bioinformatics Institute), Mihai Glont(European Bioinformatics Institute), Suran Jayathilaka(European Bioinformatics Institute), Sandeep Kadam(European Bioinformatics Institute), Manish Kumar(European Bioinformatics Institute), Katharina B. Lauer, Geetika Malhotra(European Bioinformatics Institute), Abayomi Mosaku(European Bioinformatics Institute), Ossama Edbali(European Bioinformatics Institute), Young Mi Park(European Bioinformatics Institute), Andrew Parton(European Bioinformatics Institute), Matt Pearce(European Bioinformatics Institute), Jose Francisco Peña Estrada(European Bioinformatics Institute), Joseph Rossetto(European Bioinformatics Institute), Craig Russell(European Bioinformatics Institute), Sandeep Selvakumar(European Bioinformatics Institute), Xènia Pérez Sitjà, Alexey Sokolov(European Bioinformatics Institute), Ross Thorne(European Bioinformatics Institute), Marianna Ventouratou(European Bioinformatics Institute), Peter Walter(European Bioinformatics Institute), Galabina Yordanova(European Bioinformatics Institute), Amonida Zadissa(European Bioinformatics Institute), Guy Cochrane(European Bioinformatics Institute), Niklas Blomberg, Rolf Apweiler(European Bioinformatics Institute)
Nucleic Acids Research
May 1, 2021
10.1093/nar/gkab417
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Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic will be remembered as one of the defining events of the 21st century. The rapid global outbreak has had significant impacts on human society and is already responsible for millions of deaths. Understanding and tackling the impact of the virus has required a worldwide mobilisation and coordination of scientific research. The COVID-19 Data Portal (https://www.covid19dataportal.org/) was first released as part of the European COVID-19 Data Platform, on April 20th 2020 to facilitate rapid and open data sharing and analysis, to accelerate global SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research. The COVID-19 Data Portal has fortnightly feature releases to continue to add new data types, search options, visualisations and improvements based on user feedback and research. The open datasets and intuitive suite of search, identification and download services, represent a truly FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) resource that enables researchers to easily identify and quickly obtain the key datasets needed for their COVID-19 research.

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