The GTEx project falls under the Ft. Lauderdale meeting principles of rapid, pre-publication data release. These principles involve publication of a manuscript near the outset to describe the scope and vision of the project and plans to make data available. The continued success of rapid pre-publication data release relies on the scientific community to respect the data producer’s interest to publish a full analysis of their data first. While others are free to analyze GTEx data immediately upon release, the GTEx consortium envisions publication of both a comprehensive description of the sample acquisition and processing system and a series of genome-wide analyses of genetic variation and gene expression, as described in the “Statistical Analysis and Development of Methods” section.
