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The Research Registry is a space for researchers to register the research projects they are currently working on, browse and search current research projects, and find contact details for projects leads. If you want to export results out of the Research Environment for publication, you must have an approved research project on the registry. You can access the Research Registry by logging into the Research Environment and clicking the Research Registry icon on the desktop. Watch a tutorial video about the Research Registry on our Research Environment Demo Videos page. |
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Why do I need to register a project?
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- 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.
- 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. - 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.
- 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 (ie i.e. if they abide by the Publication Policy, relevant Acceptable Uses of Data and the Publication Moratorium).
- 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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You must register your research at least 3 months before submitting an Airlock request to take you results out of the Research Environment. If this is not possible, please contact us on on [email protected]. |
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A research project is considered to be any set of analyses or investigations that would ordinarily be the subject of a single research article, or piece of work within a student thesis. In some cases this may change during the research period; for example, a project may grow to encompass more than one planned publication. For this reason, you can add more than one publication to a record in the Research Registry. Preliminary searches of the data for the purposes of hypothesis generation or, for example, to generate pilot data for a funding proposal, would not be considered a research project.
The projects submitted to the Research Registry will be reviewed by Genomics England to ensure that they are within the bounds of valid Access Review Committee approval from the research lead’s domain. The Research Registry also provides Genomics England with an overview of the research activity being undertaken in the Research Environment; as such, any files moved out through the Airlock must be associated with activities covered by a registered and approved research project.
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Please note, you can use genomes protected under another domain's moratorium as controls or to investigate a disease unrelated to the domain they fall within.
Who can join a project?
When a project lead registers a project, they provide a summary of the work they plan to carry out. This abstract is visible to all GeCIP members, regardless of their involvement in a given project. A list of all current and completed research projects is available within the Research Registry and can be reviewed by all GeCIP members accessing the Research Environment. Project status is given for each entry, indicating the progress of the project through the Research Environment.
Any GeCIP member can request to join a project listed in the Research Registry. Below are the likely scenarios:
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To view the Research Registry, log in to the Research Environment and click the icon "Research Registry".
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Please note that because the Research Registry is inside the Research Environment, one needs to be a verified GeCIP member with an active Research Environment account to be able to view it. This information will not be available within the publicly-accessible Confluence space dedicated to Research Environment documentation. |
You will be able to view all projects that have been registered and their status:
- Under review – being reviewed by Genomics England, not yet approved.
- Approved – project has been approved by Genomics England and can begin work.
- Not Approved – project has not been approved by Genomics England. Where this happens, we will contact the project lead.
- Publication under review – project has been completed and is waiting export via ‘Airlock’.
- Published – project has been published in a journal.
Using the Research Registry at a glance
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Our definition of what constitutes a research project is:
a set of analyses that cumulatively would be within the scope of a single research paper. It may either be a small focused analysis using a small amount of data, or a large more complex project involving multiple researchers from multiple domains. In both cases there should be a single overarching, well-defined research question, and detailed aims, objectives and methods.
If, as the research project progresses, it becomes clear that it may be more appropriate to make it the subject of multiple publications, it is recommended that the original project be split into multiple project accordingly. Preliminary searches of the data for the purposes of hypothesis generation or, for example, to generate pilot data for a funding proposal, would not be considered a research project.
How to register your project
Navigate to the Research Registry Project Submission Form page. Log into the Research Environment. Click "Research Registry" then the subpage "Research Registry Project Submission Form" on the side menu.
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Check the box to accept that Genomics England reserves the right to refuse this project. When you are ready, click “Register”. The status of your project will be 'blank’. |
A member of the GeCIP team at Genomics England will review your project, and change the status to "UNDER REVIEW". A GeCIP team member will , and ensure the project is in line with your domain’s domain or company's ARC-approved research plan. You will receive a notification when it has been approved by Genomics England and the status of your project will change to 'APPROVED'. You will receive a notification of the outcome of your application.
If you have any queries, or if you want to edit or change the status of your project (e.g. to "publication under review"), please contact [email protected].
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do I review the status of a project?
A list of all current and completed research projects is available within the Research Registry and can be reviewed by all researchers accessing the Research Environment. To view the Research Registry, log in to the Research Environment and click the icon "Research Registry". Please note that because the Research Registry is inside the Research Environment, one needs to be a researcher with an active Research Environment account to be able to view it.
You will be able to view all projects that have been registered and their status:
- Under review – being reviewed by Genomics England, not yet approved.
- Approved – project has been approved by Genomics England and can begin work.
- Not Approved – project has not been approved by Genomics England. Where this happens, we will contact the project lead.
- Publication under review – project has been completed and is waiting export via ‘Airlock’.
- Published – project has been published in a journal.
Collaborating on a Project
Any researcher can request to join a project listed in the Research Registry by using the contact email provided for the project to get in touch with the lead researcher. If they are happy to collaborate, the lead can email [email protected] and we will add any co-researchers or external contributors to the project. While each project All projects submitted to the Research Registry are visible, including the contact email address for the project lead. Please contact the lead directly to request to join the project. Anyone can request to join a project, but while each research lead is encouraged to positively consider applications to join a research project, the decision on whether to accept or reject an application is entirely theirs. If you are a project lead who would like to add someone to your project, please contact us on accepted to collaborate on a project outside your domain you will be collaborating with that domain and not be restricted by the moratorium period.
You can request a Research Space within the Research Environment for your project by emailing [email protected]
Your Research Project Space
Your research project will have its own space within confluence, which the GeCIP team will create on your behalf. This space is where all members of the project can create and edit pages. You can use this space for writing updates on your project, problem solving, writing up your methods/results, etc. This space and any pages it contains will only be accessible to those with access to the Research Environment. If you want to make the page private then you can edit the page restrictions by clicking on . This is a JIRA page where researchers can share notes and updates on their projects. These pages are only accessible from within the Research Environment and you will be able to edit who has permissions to view and edit the page by clicking the 3 dots menu in the top right hand corner. Then navigating to "Restrictions". Here you can name the users that you want to be able to view and edit the space.You should include all researchers who are expected to be authors on any publication resulting from this project as co-researchers. For GeCIP members who have received account details for the Research Environment, you will be able to add them by searching for their name. If anyone working on the project does not have an account for the Research Environment (yet), you can add them as ‘external contributors’ on the page after you have selected co-researchers; you will need their full name and email address in order to do this.
Creating Publications
There is the option to use Confluence to prepare your publication draft. Although it may not have all the formatting options available in word processors, Confluence has some useful features for collaborating on text and will allow you to:
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