The following is a non-exhaustive, alphabetized list of Overture development goals. If you have an idea that is not listed below, we encourage you to submit a feature request.
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Beacon-based search | Add support for a GA4GH Beacon interface to Arranger. |
| Chatbot | A new LLM-based chatbot module to perform custom searches and visualizations on our platforms. |
| Data Access Portal | A GA4GH compliant electronic system for (1) researchers to request data access to controlled-access datasets (2) data access officers to review and act on those requests (3) admins to monitor data access. |
| Data curator | - A new LLM-based module to execute data extraction and harmonization to align existing data to a Lectern schema. |
| Data Dictionary Viewer | A generalized data dictionary component in Stage that displays schemas in an easy-to-read format from Song. |
| Federated search | An Overture module that supports searching across multiple Overture instances, and includes functionalities such as minimal threshold for cell size of returned aggregated results (for controlled-access data). This provides a visual UI to browse and dynamically drill down/refine query results. |
| Lyric | A data submission service compatible with any structured data defined in Lectern. This includes generating TSV templates and validating against a Lectern defined JSON schema. |
| Ontology-based search | A tree viewer supporting searching across data based on selecting a branch of an ontology tree, e.g., ‘all subclasses of “cancer”’ |
| Ontology-based validation | Update existing Lectern validation to support validation of values against an ontology, e.g., the field “disease” must have a value from the MONDO disease hierarchy. |
| Participant portal | A GA4GH compliant electronic system to support participant enrollment in new studies, collecting their demographic information and data consent, enabling dynamic consent. |
| Phenopacket export | Provide a GA4GH Phenopackets formatted export of our data. |
| Song base schema model | Remove some of the cancer-specific constraints in our Song's base schema model to support additional datatypes natively. |