dbGaP Tutorials

Learn about the NIH Database of Genotypes and Phenotypes (dbGaP) and the study registration process. This video provides an overview of the Genomic Data Sharing Policy, the roles of Principal Investigators and Genomic Program Administrators (GPAs), and the steps required to register a study and submit data for secure sharing through dbGaP.

Learn how to register a study in dbGaP as a Principal Investigator. This video walks through the registration process, including working with a Genomic Program Administrator (GPA), completing required study information, preparing Institutional Certification documents, and submitting your registration for review and approval.

Learn how to track and manage your dbGaP study registration after submission. This video explains the Genomic Program Administrator (GPA) review process, what happens when a registration request is returned for revisions, and the meaning of each study status throughout the registration lifecycle—from draft creation to public release in dbGaP. You'll also learn how to view your study registration history and monitor progress every step of the way.

Learn what happens after a dbGaP study registration is completed. This video explains the transition to the dbGaP Submission Portal (SP), how to complete the study configuration, manage study submitters, update study information, and prepare data for submission. It also covers the study release process and how users can request access to released study data through the dbGaP public website.

This is the first in a series of three videos that provide an overview of dbGaP's submission process.

This is the second in a series of three videos that provide an overview of dbGaP's submission process.

This is the third in a series of three videos that provide an overview of dbGaP's submission process.

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.

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.

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.