What is Sandbox and what can you do there

The FinnGen Sandbox is a specially designed computational environment that provides secure and scalable access to individual-level data.

Interactive virtual machine - IVM

Once you have been granted access to use the FinnGen individual-level ("red") data, an interactive virtual machine will be created for you within your organization's Sandbox. This interactive virtual machine is often referred to as an IVM or VM and you can reach this system via your web browser (preferably Chrome). Each IVM is a unix machine with a graphical interface that is hosted in the Google Cloud.

Which data can be found and which exported?

All FinnGen individual-level genotype and phenotype ("red") data can be found in the Sandbox. If your work requires individual-level data as input, you need to do your analyses in your Sandbox IVM.

For example, a GWAS, survival analysis, or exploring individual health trajectories must all be done in Sandbox. Only data where you have aggregated the results of five or more individuals can be exported from the Sandbox and you first request an inspection of data to be downloaded.