Gwasdiversitymonitor

Overview:

The GWAS Diversity Monitor is a repository and dashboard that visualizes a systematic interactive review of all GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Studies) published to date. It is maintained by the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and utilizes D3 (a JavaScript library for visualizing data) for the frontend and Flask (a lightweight web application framework written in Python) for the backend. The dashboard and associated summary statistics check daily for updates from the EMBL-EBI GWAS Catalog and update with new releases. This repository can be cloned and run on localhost to generate a server.

Features:

• Interactive review of all GWAS published to date
• Daily updates from the EMBL-EBI GWAS Catalog
• Visualization of summary statistics
• Server can be run on localhost

Summary:

The GWAS Diversity Monitor is a repository and dashboard that provides an interactive review of GWAS data. It is built using D3 for the frontend and Flask for the backend. The dashboard and summary statistics are regularly updated with new releases from the EMBL-EBI GWAS Catalog. To install and run the project, ensure you have Python 3 installed, install the necessary dependencies, clone the repository, download the data, and serve the project using Flask.