The GWAS Catalog provides a consistent, searchable, visualisable and freely available database of published SNP-trait associations, which can be easily integrated with other resources, and is accessed by scientists, clinicians and other users worldwide.

Prefix
gcst
Links
Homepage
Identifier Standards
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in GWAS Catalog should match this regular expression:
^GCST\d{6}\d*$

Example Local Unique Identifier
GCST000035   Resolve
Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from GWAS Catalog should match this regular expression:
^gcst:GCST\d{6}\d*$

Example CURIE
gcst:GCST000035
Contacts
Contact
Missing Contact
Identifier Space Owner
European Bioinformatics InstituteROR logo
Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 2 mappings to external registries with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
Identifiers.org Identifiers.org logo miriam gcst
N2T Name-to-Thing logo n2t gcst
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier GCST000035 is used to demonstrate the providers available for GWAS Catalog. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name Provider Code URI
GWAS Catalog gcst https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/studies/GCST000035
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/gcst:GCST000035
Identifiers.org miriam https://identifiers.org/gcst:GCST000035
Name-to-Thing n2t https://n2t.net/gcst:GCST000035