Beacon v2 and Beacon networks: A "lingua franca" for federated data discovery in biomedical genomics, and beyond.

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"The Beacon v2 project has received continued support from both GA4GH and ELIXIR. As a prominent GA4GH Discovery Work Stream product, the Beacon protocol and associated team has benefitted from administrative support in product submission and meeting management. We would like to acknowledge the support and contribution from the GA4GH Driver projects and other partners mentioned in the text. And last, but not least all the volunteers of the Beacon Scouts and the enthusiastic Beacon v2 implementers. This study was funded by ELIXIR, the research infrastructure for life‐science data and also by LaCaixa Foundation (grant number 004745/008034). Tim Beck was supported by a UKRI Innovation Fellowship at Health Data Research UK (MR/S003703/1). Anthony J. Brookes and Jordi Rambla were supported, in part, by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the EJP RD COFUND‐EJP #825575. Michael Baudis acknowledges funding under the BioMedIT Network project of Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN)."