Consent and access infrastructure for genomic data — custody, permissions, partnership value, and how to start.
MyDNABank provides consent and access infrastructure for genomic data. Individuals manage research choices, laboratories contribute services and eligible datasets, and research partners seek approved access. Participating laboratories perform sequencing and laboratory testing.
Individuals managing their genomic information, laboratories and biobanks holding genomic datasets, and pharma, biotech and contract research organisations (CROs) seeking approved research access.
Individuals manage their research permissions. Laboratories and biobanks retain their agreed approval roles for the datasets they hold. MyDNABank connects recorded permissions with access decisions. Each request must respect participant rights, institutional authority and restrictions attached to the data.
A research partner submits a defined request. The approval process checks its purpose against recorded permissions, applicable legal requirements and institutional restrictions. Approved analysis takes place within a Trusted Research Environment, a controlled space for working with sensitive data. Only reviewed, permitted outputs are released.
MyDNABank provides consent and access infrastructure for genomic data. Participating laboratories perform sequencing and laboratory testing.
Preparing genomic datasets for research requires staff time, clear permissions and coordination with research partners. MyDNABank helps your laboratory bring cohort information, permission checks and access requests into a structured process.
Preparation brings together available phenotype, clinical context and technical metadata alongside documented permissions. Examples include diagnosis, treatment history, outcomes, sequencing methods and quality measures. Your laboratory or an authorised clinical partner supplies the relevant information. This helps your team assess cohort suitability and identify gaps before committing to a project.
Your laboratory contributes scientific expertise and retains its agreed approval role. MyDNABank supports the consent and access workflow. Regional sequencing partnerships offer a separate route for laboratories providing testing services.
Your laboratory retains its agreed governance and research-approval role. Connecting with MyDNABank does not transfer data ownership or grant automatic researcher access.
With a connection to your infrastructure, genomic files stay in your approved environment. Optional managed storage has separately agreed hosting and custody arrangements.
MyDNABank's consent layer links participant permissions and institutional restrictions to each request. Your organisation reviews the proposed purpose, analysis and outputs within its authority. Agreements record responsibilities while respecting participant rights and existing obligations.
Full archive migration is not a condition of a laboratory partnership. An initial technical assessment establishes the connection method, any necessary changes and your team's involvement.
The consent layer connects permission records and cohort descriptions with research-access workflows. The agreed deployment defines where analysis runs and how approved computation reaches the data through a Trusted Research Environment.
Managed genomic storage is an optional service for laboratories seeking archival support. Location, retention, deletion and access controls form part of the agreed scope.
Partnership creates a route to funded research and regional sequencing opportunities. Laboratories choose the route suited to their capabilities.
Laboratories joining the research route contribute eligible datasets and services such as cohort preparation, data curation and approved analysis. Sequencing partners deliver testing through a customer journey managed by MyDNABank.
Participation depends on suitable demand, authorised use and an agreed scope. Each partnership defines responsibilities and commercial terms before work begins.
Your laboratory confirms its authority to contribute data, working with the relevant clinical institution or data custodian where needed. The responsible organisations assess whether consent records, legal grounds and institutional restrictions support the proposed research.
MyDNABank's consent layer records validated permissions and connects them with access rules. The institutions retain their approval roles, and each organisation is responsible for its own processing.
Existing diagnostic consent does not automatically authorise research. Gaps in authority require resolution before access begins. The agreement assigns responsibility for participant communication, updates and withdrawal. The audit trail records permission changes and resulting access decisions.
Start with a scoped assessment of your services, data environment and partnership objectives.
For research-data partnerships, the assessment considers available genomic data, phenotype, clinical information, metadata and permissions. Where integration or research workflows need validation, we agree a defined pilot with staff requirements, deliverables and success criteria. The findings establish cohort suitability, preparation effort and whether expansion offers sufficient value.
Regional sequencing partners follow a service-onboarding process covering testing capabilities, sample logistics, data delivery and support responsibilities.
Regional sequencing partners perform agreed testing for customers in the regions they serve. MyDNABank manages the customer journey and provides the platform and consent infrastructure supporting permitted use of the resulting genomic data.
The assessment covers sequencing capabilities, applicable quality and accreditation requirements, geographic coverage, sample logistics, turnaround times and data-delivery formats. The agreement defines laboratory testing, reporting and support responsibilities.
Research use of the resulting data requires separate authorisation. A sequencing-service order does not provide research permission.