Language

English

Publication Date

8-1-2026

Journal

Genetics in Medicine

DOI

10.1016/j.gim.2026.102590

PMID

42070089

PMCID

PMC13349456

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

7-10-2026

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Author MSS

Abstract

Purpose: The Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) is creating a central resource of clinically relevant genetic knowledge to improve genomic medicine. Dissemination and use of the ClinGen Resource is essential to ensure broad community uptake. We report on experiences and sustained use of ClinGen tools through engaging international genetics groups based in India, Africa, and Singapore in variant classification training workshops using the ClinGen Variant Curation Interface (VCI).

Methods: We developed pre- and postworkshop questionnaires and analyzed ClinGen tool use following the workshops. We evaluated organizational aspects and costs of creating a dedicated ClinGen VCI instance for each workshop.

Results: The workshops yielded >200 participants, with local scientists as essential participants. Although ∼55% of participants were unfamiliar with variant classification, we found that ∼79% were likely to use the VCI after the workshop. Furthermore, we identified that ∼10% of workshop participants created permanent accounts. We estimate costs at ∼$3 per VCI instance.

Conclusion: Our efforts highlight the yield of international workshops to sustained use of ClinGen's curation tools and identify areas for future consideration, such as creating user groups by experience level, and the importance of local scientist engagement in workshop deployment and organizational aspects.

Keywords

Humans, Genetic Variation, Genomics, Genome, Human, Surveys and Questionnaires, Databases, Genetic, Data Curation, education, ClinGen, variant curation, training, workshop

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