How are bespoke analysis proposals handled?

Bespoke analysis proposal procedure

1. Proposals are evaluated by the FinnGen Scientific Director and the FinnGen administration team

The bespoke analysis proposals are reviewed by the FinnGen Administrators, including Scientific Director and Data Protection Office, who check that the proposal is in line with the overall FinnGen Scientific Plan and its amendments (FinnGen 2 Scientific Plan and FinnGen 3 Scientific Plan) and any biobank and registry permissions granted to FinnGen. You may be asked to provide additional information on the proposal.

After review by the FinnGen Administrators, a copy of the bespoke analysis proposal is distributed to the biobanks for their information.

In case a biobank finds that the bespoke analysis proposal is not in line with the granted biobank permit, FinnGen Administators may ask to modify the bespoke analysis proposal.

2. Approval if contracts are in place

In case all necessary contracts are in place (including Joint Controller Agreement with University of Helsinki) the approval process takes 1-3 weeks.

3. After the approval

After the approval of your bespoke analysis proposal, you will receive an analysis proposal index (B_YYYY_NNN), which may be asked from you when you are in contact with FinnGen staff for services. You are also asked the index when requesting to download results out from Sandbox.

Please be in contact with [e-mail] if you don't remember your bespoke analysis index.

Once your bespoke analysis proposal has been approved, we (FinnGen) will follow up your progress regularly. Your final results and manuscript should be shared with University of Helsinki.

Once you have your results ready, please be in contact [e-mail] for more guidance.