GWAS data is growing rapidly, and the GWAS Catalog now includes more than 1 million associations. Authors can already submit full genome-wide summary statistics and metadata to the Catalog, and publications with submissions are prioritised for inclusion.

For papers without submissions, our small team of biocurators manually extracts reported associations and metadata from GWAS publications. This careful work takes time, and we currently have a backlog of papers awaiting curation.

We know how important it is for your data to reach the community quickly. To help accelerate inclusion of new data in the Catalog, we are asking study authors to share metadata and top associations in a standardised format.

Authors contacted by the GWAS team are encouraged to review the checklist, submission guidelines and template before preparing their data. Providing data in a consistent format helps us to process the submission more efficiently, improve data quality, and reduce manual review time. This helps studies become available to the community faster, increasing their visibility and accessibility through the Catalog. As we are currently encouraging only a specific type of submission from external contributors, being contacted doesn’t guarantee that the study will be eligible for inclusion at this stage. All submissions will be checked and QC’d by our curation team before release.

Researchers who have not been contacted by the team but would like to contribute are also welcome to get in touch via the helpdesk, and we will guide you through the next steps. Please note - this is a separate process from submitting full genome-wide summary statistics - please don’t try to use our submission portal. Of course, if you are happy to submit full genome-wide summary statistics, we’d be very happy for you to do that as well!

As always, if you have any questions, please reach out to our helpdesk gwas-info@ebi.ac.uk.