The Research Registry is based on the internal Confluence space within the Research Environment to enable GeCIP members to register their research projects. The Research Registry will provide a mechanism for GeCIP members to search through the current research projects and to request to join particular research projects.
The Research Registry has been designed with the following aims in mind:
You must register your research at least 3 months before submitted an Airlock request to take you results out of the Research Environment. |
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.
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.
A project can be registered by anyone who wishes to lead on a study that is aimed to result in one or more publications and would otherwise be considered to be the lead author on a publication, or a student/supervisor of a student project.
Remember to contact the relevant domain lead before registering a new project.
Outlined below are the most likely scenarios when registering a project:
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.
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:
To view the Research Registry, you need to navigate to the Research Registry.
Please note that as such, one needs to be a verified GeCIP member with an active Research Environment account to be able to view the Project Directory. 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:
The flowchart below outlines a series of steps necessary to register a project and use the Project Registry for collaboration purposes. For detail on specific items, please go to the subheadings below.
To enable the greatest research value to be extracted from the 100,000 Genomes Project, and to ensure that all research is carried out under a valid ARC approval, we require that all research projects carried out within GeCIP are logged and summary details are openly available. A registered project is also a prerequisite for associated airlock exports and publication submissions.
The system by which this will be administered is the Research Registry, a form which is built into Confluence within the Research Environment.
By entering your research project into the Research Registry, you and your co-researchers are provided with a private Confluence space where you can collaborate on analyses and documents.
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.
Remember to contact the relevant domain lead before registering a new project |
Navigate to the Research Registry Project Submission Form page.
Complete the “Register a project” form
How to complete the "Register a project" form
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.
External collaborators will not be able to view and interact with the project space in Confluence as they will not have the necessary credentials to log into the Research Environment |
Name of funder
If you are applying for funding or have received funding for your project, you should state this here. This will be used to determine who owns the intellectual property for your project.
Abstract and lay summary
You must provide an abstract and lay summary of your project. These will be visible to anyone looking at the Research Registry. The lay summary may be used to describe your project on the Genomics England public website, if permission is granted by the project lead, and should be understandable by patients and the general public
GeCIP domains (you can select multiple domains)
Please list the domains you are interested in researching data from.
You will need to select the GeCIP domain(s) that the project pertains to. You should be a member of this domain.
If your project is part of more than one domain, you can add addition domains in the ‘Other GeCIP Domain(s)’ section. You can select multiple domains by holding CTRL/CMD and clicking the domain name.
Related project
If any related projects have been submitted to the Research Registry, please provide their Registry ID
Are any of the genomes that you want to use currently under moratorium?
You should check in the 'domain_assignment' table in LabKey to see which genomes are under moratorium
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’. If you do not do this, your project is not registered with Genomics England, so has not been approved and no one can request to join it.
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 ensure the project is in line with your domain’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'.
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. The home page is automatically created when you submit your project and you can customise this in any way you like. Only those who are listed as co-researchers can edit the pages within your project’s space, but all GeCIP members can view them.
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If you have any queries please contact [email protected] or contact us via RocketChat.
All projects submitted to the Research Registry are visible. The contact email address for the project lead is present. 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.
You will receive a notification of the outcome of your application.
As you progress with your research please contact the GeCIP team (gecip-help@genomicsengland.co.uk) to revise the status of your project. |
You cannot request to join a research project once it reaches ‘PUBLICATION IN DRAFT’ status as at this point it is expected that all research on the project is complete and the project team are working on writing up their results for publication, so you would not meet the ICMJE authorship criteria.
Immediately after registering your research project, you will be directed to the project's dedicated Confluence space. This space and any pages it contains will only be accessible by members of the research team.
This space can be thought of as a Research Notebook; pages can be easily added and collaborated on. Confluence is a powerful wiki-based environment, for a brief overview of how to edit and add pages then have a look at the pages on this site.
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 is ideal for collaborating on text and will allow you to:
You can create a template 'Publication Notebook' by clicking going back to your research project record and updating the project's status to be publication in draft (via theicon on the GeCIP Projects page). This will generate a page with the authorship, abstract etc as entered on the research registry.