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- Your application to a GeCIP domain has been accepted.
- Your institution has signed the GeCIP Participation Agreement, which outlines the key principles that members of each institution must adhere to, including our Intellectual Property and Publication Policy. As of 2019, your institution must have signed the agreement before you can apply to GeCIP. See if your institution has signed here.
- Your institution has verified you are affiliated with that institution. We contact institutions regularly to ask them to review their current list of affiliated GeCIP members, so no action is required on your part. This step is necessary to make sure we know who is accessing the data, in line with the consent that project Project participants have given.
- Your domain has submitted a Detailed Research Plan and it has been approved by the Genomics England Access Review Committee. The majority of domains meet this requirement. See the status of your domain's detailed research plan here.
Certain other individuals have access to some of the Project data. For example, students on the MSc Genomic Medicine
can be have in the past been given access to a small subset of data for teaching purposes, approved individuals from certain commercial companies have access to some data for research, and individuals involved in the pilot phase of the programme have access to pilot data.
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- Your application is sent to the relevant domain lead(s).
- Your application is reviewed by the domain lead(s): this can take up to 10 working days).
- Your details are sent to your institution so they can verify your affiliation: this can be immediate (if the institution has agreed to "auto-verify" those with affiliated email addresses), but can often take weeks or even months. We cannot guarantee a timeframe for these step to be completed because it depends on your institution.
- Your details are sent for account creation: this occurs in batches every 10 working days, and it accounts may take be created a few days until creation after details are sent.
A system is being built to automate this process, but currently it requires a lot of manual steps and input from different parties, meaning it is not generally feasible to "fast-track" applicants through the process. Please apply well before you require data access.
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All domains that have had their Detailed Research Plan approved have been given access to the data. As of May December 2019, 38 GeCIP domains have been granted access to the data, guided by the order of approval of their detailed research plans. These are:
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