The Pathogen Genomics Funders Forum (PGFF) is making available a checklist to use along with WHO’s “Attributes and principles of genomic data-sharing platforms” document.
Both the original “attributes document” and the “companion checklist” are available on PGFF’s “Resources” page (https://pathogenforum.org/resources/)
The attributes document was developed by WHO’s International Pathogen Surveillance Network in consultation with a panel of experts and includes a list of “operational principles” that essentially represent best practices for anyone managing or contemplating developing such a system.
In order to encourage the use of this document, the PGFF secretariat has developed a separate “companion checklist” that covers all 54 operational principles. PGFF members (i.e., funders) may wish to require relevant proposals to include the checklist along with a narrative explanation of why various operational principles are irrelevant to the proposed system or cannot be met.
The PGFF secretariat anticipates that few systems will be able to meet all of the criteria (i.e., all 54 operational principles), and publication of this checklist is not meant to imply that systems should be required to do so. However, the secretariat does believe that operators of such systems will benefit from reviewing all 54, carefully considering which can be met and which can’t, and providing written justification for the latter or an assessment of what resources would required to meet them.