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Why do I need to register a project?

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1. To promote collaboration and to reduce duplication of effort within the Research Environment: Registering a project will allow researchers within your domain and throughout all of GeCIP and the Discovery Forum to be aware of the work that is carried out within the Research Environment. To provide a mechanism to enact the Publication Moratorium: Disease-facing domains have a protected time period for analysis and publication on participant data pertaining to their domain in recognition of the efforts of the domain members who have assisted in recruiting participants to the project.
2. To provide a mechanism to assess adherence to the Genomics England Publication Policy: Authorship and co-authorship of any publication or output should be defined in accordance with the guidelines issued by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) and outlined in the Genomics England Publication Policy. Note that a registered research project should comprise research aimed to result in a publication, such as a journal article, or a piece of work within a student thesis. Hence, multiple projects can be registered within a single domain. For a full definition of a project see here.
3. To assess that the proposed research adheres to acceptable uses of data for which the Access Review Committee has granted data access approval: Genomics England will be able to review whether a proposed research project falls within the scope of the detailed research plan submitted by the domain and as such that no additional data access requests need to be considered.
4. To allow export of analysis results: The Research Registry provides a page for collaborative development of a manuscript within the Research Environment. Use of this page to prepare a manuscript is not compulsory; manuscripts can be written outside the Research Environment. However, the Airlock Review Team will be reviewing requests for export of analysis results and manuscripts against the Research Registry information, so your project still needs to be registered. Manuscripts and analysis results will be allowed to leave the Research Environment only if they adhere to the criteria outlined above (i.e. if they abide by the Publication Policy, relevant Acceptable Uses of Data and the Publication Moratorium).
5. To provide a mechanism to enact the Publication Moratorium: Disease-facing domains have a protected time period for analysis and publication on participant data pertaining to their domain in recognition of the efforts of the domain members who have assisted in recruiting participants to the project.

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