Resources

Beacon Project

• Beacon Project home The Beacon is a driver project within the GA4GH Discovery Workstream which will be fully established in the new year.

Beacon Network

Search across the worlds public Beacons.

• Beacon Network service: https://beacon-network.org
• Beacon Network API documentation
• Beacon Network CLI
• Beacon Network client library (Java)
• Beacon of Beacon BoB (predecessor of the Beacon Network, updated March 2016)

Supporting tools

• Beaconizer
• CLI
• Client library (Java)
• Beacon adapters also here for various data sources: ,
• Beacon coordinate conversion library
• Prototype of a compliance suite

Beacon implementations

Java

• Java beacon development kit
• Elixir beacon implementation
• CNAG beacon implementation

Python

• Python beacon development kit: https://github.com/mcupak/beacon-python
• GeneCloud beacon implementation: https://github.com/Genecloud/simplebeacon
• UCSC beacon implementation: https://github.com/maximilianh/ucscBeacon
• Python beacon implementation on top of GA4GH variants API: https://github.com/kozbo/Beacon-on-GA4GH-API

JavaScript

• JavaScript beacon development kit: https://github.com/mcupak/beacon-javascript
• ElementoLab beacon implementation: https://github.com/ElementoLab/beacon

Go

• Google Genomics beacon implementation: https://github.com/googlegenomics/beacon-go

Containers

• ELIXIR: https://hub.docker.com/r/egacrg/beacon/
• UCSC https://github.com/labbcb/docker-ga4gh-beacon
• EIPM https://hub.docker.com/r/eipm/beacon/