dbGaP Tutorials
Apply for Controlled Access Data
This video reviews the steps to request access to controlled data in dbGaP.
Apply for Controlled Access Data - version 2
This video reviews the steps to request access to controlled data in dbGaP.
It contains a minor update -- a new screen capture of the dbGaP homepage,
which recently changed some link names and locations.
Renew Authorized Access
This short video walks through the steps to renew authorized access for a
dbGaP project.
Close Out a Controlled Access Project
This short video walks through the steps to close out a controlled
access project.
Assign Downloaders for dbGaP Data
Tutorial explaining how an authorized user of controlled-access data can
assign a downloader role to someone in his/her institution.
PheGenI: The Phenotype-Genotype Integrator
A January 2013 update to the PheGenI resource of dbGaP. Changes include:
autocomplete search for Traits; example searches; source choice; and
enhanced Genome View.
NCBI Minute: New dbGaP Advanced Search
Presented December 16, 2015. Learn how to access the new search interface and
quickly find human subject data by study, variables, datasets, documents,
and genotypes.
Webinar: Upload and Analyze dbGaP Data in the Cloud
Presented February 3, 2016, this webinar shows you how to initialize the SRA
toolkit for streaming dbGaP next-gen sequence data to cloud services such as
Amazon Web Services, and how to use an NCBI-created Amazon Machine Image
to analyze these data.
Study Registration Update - New Submission Portal Status
This is an update to the February 2014 video, 'dbGaP: Complete a Study
Registration'. This video describes the different statuses in the new
Submission Portal Status part of the Manage Study page.
Apply for Controlled Access Data
This video reviews the steps to request access to controlled data
in dbGaP. It contains a minor update -- a new screen capture of the
dbGaP homepage, which recently changed some link names and locations.
NCBI Minute: dbGaP's New Ancestry Composition Visualization tool and GRAF Software
This webinar is an introduction to the Genetic Relationship and
Fingerprinting (GRAF) software package developed by the dbGaP team at
NCBI. GRAF provides two main functions. It is a quality assurance tool
that can quickly find duplicates and closely related subjects in your
data using SNP genotypes. And it has an additional feature, GRAF-pop,
that computes subject ancestries and plots the data for export as a .png
or .txt file.