The genome aggregation database (GNOMAD)

Ended Cooperative Agreement Awarded Last action

Award ID
U24HG011450
Recipient
Awarding agency
Obligated
$75,415,021

Award facts

Assistance listing
93.172 Human Genome Research
Completion date
Originally
Funding
  • $73,228,021.00 Federal
  • $2,187,000.00 Non-federal
Place of performance
Massachusetts, USA

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Description

Abstract
The genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) is a ubiquitous resource for basic research and clinical interpretation. The world's largest genetic variation resource, the GNOMAD dataset is used in virtually all clinical genetic diagnostic pipelines worldwide, and the website has over 20 million page views to date. Here we outline a proposal that will expand the GNOMAD resource to millions of samples across diverse global populations. Our proposal will scale variant-calling and quality control to match this sample size, integrate statistical tools and other genomic resources critical to clinical interpretation, and ensure that the data we aggregate will continue to be shared freely with the biomedical community. To accomplish this we will apply a highly computationally efficient strategy to call all classes of variation (including snvs, small indels, and the mutational spectrum of structural variants) across millions of sequenced samples enriched for under- represented ancestry groups. We will deploy a cloud-based framework for the efficient storage and automated quality control of these very large and heterogeneous sequence data sets using the massively parallel hail architecture. We will leverage the scale of GNOMAD to provide increasingly high-resolution maps of the depletion of functional variation across regions of the genome (highlighting genome regions where natural selection constrains DNA change) and provide statistical frameworks for quantitatively assessing whether the population frequency of a variant is consistent with pathogenicity, linking this information with evidence from the clinvar resource. We will continue to share all of this data as rapidly and openly as possible with the biomedical community, long before publication. We will support and expand functionality in our widely accessed data browser as well as create scalable and publicly accessible datasets that integrate our variation data with clinical and functional genomic annotations, accessible through API frameworks to empower novel applications of the datasets. We will also provide resources and training to improve the use of GNOMAD resources by the clinical genetics and wider biomedical communities.

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Amendment The genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) is a ubiquitous resource for basic research and clinical interpretation. The world's largest genetic variation… $0
Amendment The genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) - 2025 project summary/abstract the genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) is the most complete and widely-used variation… $9,863,035
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Amendment The genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) - 2025 project summary/abstract the genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) is the most complete and widely-used variation… $0
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Amendment The genome aggregation database (GNOMAD) is a ubiquitous resource for basic research and clinical interpretation. The world's largest genetic variation… $2,774,525
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $0
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $2,321,100
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $244,400
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $244,400
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $244,400
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $244,400
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Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $2,199,600
Amendment $2,199,600
Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $2,199,600
Amendment $2,199,600
Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $2,199,600
Amendment $2,199,600
Amendment Enhancing gnomad sustainability: implementing site reliability engineering principles for genomic data infrastructure $2,199,600
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Subawards

Subrecipient Amount Awarded
The Garvan Institute Of Medical Research The Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) $60,496

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Who received award U24HG011450?

U24HG011450 was awarded to The Broad Institute, Inc. by National Human Genome Research Institute (National Institutes of Health) on February 8, 2021.

How much is award U24HG011450 worth?

$75,415,021 has been obligated on U24HG011450: $73,228,021 in federal funding and $2,187,000 in non-federal funding.

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