ALSPAC OMICs Data Catalogue

Welcome to the ALSPAC Omics Catalog, your gateway to the comprehensive omics data offered by ALSPAC. Our catalog features a variety of named ALSPAC datasets, each consisting of collected or produced data that has been organized, named, and curated for ease of use. Every named ALSPAC dataset comes with accompanying metadata that provides information about the dataset as a whole. Each named ALSPAC dataset has at least one release version that includes a curated selection of files detailed in the metadata sections.

Please note that these datasets are not generally accessible. However, the information is made available for browsing to help both internal ALSPAC users and external researchers understand the data and facilitate custom data requests. See http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/access/ for how to do this.

For our external ALSPAC collaborators, we offer as standard "freezes" of specific dataset versions of named ALSPAC datasets. These freezes, along with their metadata, are outlined in this catalog. External collaborators will be granted access to these freezes upon request (See http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/access/ ). A freeze represents a carefully selected subset of data files within a version, containing the core data from a dataset with withdrawn consent removed and specific dataset IDs applied. These freezes are subject to periodic updates.

The metadata presented in our catalog adheres to the ALSPAC Data Catalog Schema, which is crafted in LinkML. To explore the full schema documentation, please visit: https://alspac.github.io/alspac-data-catalogue-schema/

This website is equipped with RDFa, enabling the metadata to be machine-readable and allowing for the creation of queries using SPARQL with compatible tools, such as Apache Any23 and Apache Jena.

For more information about this see the document on FAIR data principles and the document describing the rational and construction of this catalog here.