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The International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC) coordinates the creation of high-resolution reference epigenome maps for healthy and diseased human tissues. The IHEC Data Portal (http://epigenomesportal.ca/ihec) provides open access to discover, visualize, compare, and download annotation tracks generated for these reference epigenomes, along with their associated metadata. More than 16,000 transcriptome, methylome, and histone tracks, sourced from over 900 tissues and compared against the hg19 and hg38 reference genomes are provided. The standardized IHEC Data Hub submission protocol ensures that complete and compatible data is integrated from the consortium members. The data portal offers a highly visual, interactive, and intuitive data grid interface to facilitate dataset selection across multiple criteria. All data may be correlated, visualized in popular genome browsers, exported to a Galaxy instance, downloaded for further analysis, or saved as a session for future retrieval. Through providing access to IHEC’s database of reference epigenomic datasets, the IHEC Data Portal reinforces the consortium’s commitment to Open Science.
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Bujold, D., Grégoire, R., Brownlee, D., Zaytseva, K., Bourque, G. (2021). IHEC Data Portal. In: Abugessaisa, I., Kasukawa, T. (eds) Practical Guide to Life Science Databases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5812-9_4
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