Abstract
Stephan Beck discusses recent developments in sharing personal genomes as part of the Personal Genome Project in the UK and globally, and how these efforts are advancing research.
Highlights
Stephan Beck (Fig. 1) is Professor of Medical Genomics at the UCL Cancer Institute and Director of the Personal Genome Project in the UK
He has broad interests in the genomics and epigenomics of phenotypic plasticity in health and disease, and in using experimental and computational approaches to advance translational, regenerative and personalized medicine. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences and recipient of a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. In this Q&A, he shares the latest developments in the Personal Genome Project UK (PGP-UK)
To facilitate more open data sharing, PGP introduced the concept of open consent and was the first project to provide human genome and trait data under open access
Summary
Introduction Stephan Beck (Fig. 1) is Professor of Medical Genomics at the UCL Cancer Institute and Director of the Personal Genome Project in the UK. In this Q&A, he shares the latest developments in the Personal Genome Project UK (PGP-UK). The Personal Genome Project (PGP) was founded in 2005 by Professor George Church at Harvard University to aid the interpretation and sharing of human genomes (https://pgp.med.harvard.edu/).
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