Patients with rare disease meet their matches
February 28 • Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA
Matchmaker Exchange connects eight matchmaking platform nodes, including the Broad’s seqr database, in addition to two knowledge bases that include model organisms and scientific literature. The project was one of the first initiatives using standards and policies developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health, an organization aimed at responsible sharing of genomic data to benefit human health. Matchmaker Exchange allows users to simultaneously query data from more than 150,000 individuals stored across the databases, which manage and store their own sets of data on genetic variants, traits, and symptoms.
