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Chunk #20 — DISCUSSION

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The NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalog of published genome-wide association studies, targeted arrays and summary statistics 2019.
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The GWAS Catalog has provided access to curated GWAS data for ten years. In the last two years we have significantly extended the Catalog's scope from manual extraction and curation of data from GWAS studies in papers to support changing user needs. We have delivered a new HDF5-based data resource providing access to SS, added targeted arrays and exome studies to the Catalog, and provided a redesigned search interface and API improving access to the Catalog's data. Curation of data from the scientific literature remains a challenging task, both to keep pace with increasingly complex study designs and to deal with the variety of unstructured data in papers. The mean time from journal publication to inclusion in the Catalog is now three months (October 2017–October 2018). We have been successful in engaging the community to deposit SS data, with 11% of studies added to the Catalog in the last year having both curated data and SS. Nevertheless, obstacles remain in the terms and conditions for accessing SS data. We are aware of at least 20 project-specific websites hosting SS which