A Reference Catalogue of Human Diseases
Connected. The Phenotype Library is accessible via an API
to support interoperability, is integrated with health dataset information in HDR-UK's Innovation Gateway, and hosts content from numerous contributing organisations.
Patient-focused. The Library is enabling important research to improve patient health and well-being. Content spans major disease areas, including heart disease, cancer, COVID-19 and other common and rare human health conditions. Curated collections from contributors such as the HDR UK BREATHE Hub for respiratory health share clinical expertise to tackle critical research questions. Cutting-edge. Built with a focus on computability, this resource aims to drive the next generation of research methods. Integration with Phenoflow enables executable implementations of the phenotypes in our collection, while the API and R package client facilitate integration of the Library content directly into other analysis workflows. |
The aim of the Library is not to standardize or harmonize disease definitions, therefore several phenotypes may be stored for the same condition and the onus is on individual researchers to explore which phenotypes they wish to use
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Phenotype definitions will be assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to facilitate identification of the phenotype
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Ideally, phenotypes that are deposited in the Library will have undergone some form of peer-review to assess validity and quality either through peer-reviewed publication or some other means of sharing the definition(s)
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All material deposited in the Library remain the intellectual property of the research group who created the phenotype(s) the default licensing agreement that information is available under is the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC A).
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The Library stores phenotyping algorithms, metadata and tools only. No data are stored in the Library.
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Users should cite the Phenotype Library in all publications, presentations and reports as follows: "HDR UK Phenotype Library phenotypes.healthdatagateway.org"
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