title: SAIL--a software system for sample and phenotype availability across biobanks and cohorts.
abstract: CONCLUSIONS
  The Sample avAILability system-SAIL-is a web based application for searching, browsing and annotating biological sample collections or biobank entries. By providing individual-level information on the availability of specific data types (phenotypes, genetic or genomic data) and samples within a collection, rather than the actual measurement data, resource integration can be facilitated. A flexible data structure enables the collection owners to provide descriptive information on their samples using existing or custom vocabularies. Users can query for the available samples by various parameters combining them via logical expressions. The system can be scaled to hold data from millions of samples with thousands of variables.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  SAIL is available under Aferro-GPL open source license: https://github.com/sail.
authors.affiliation: Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK. gostev@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mikhail
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gostev
authors.forename: Julio
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Banet
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rung
authors.forename: Joern
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dietrich
authors.forename: Inga
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Prokopenko
authors.forename: Samuli
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ripatti
authors.forename: Mark I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.forename: Alvis
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brazma
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krestyaninova
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D010641:Phenotype; D012984:Software