Security and privacy when applying FAIR principles to genomic information

Making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) is a good approach when data needs to be shared. However, security and privacy are still critical aspects. In the FAIRification process, there is a need both for deidentification of data and for license attribution. The paper analyses some of the issues related to this process when the objective is sharing genomic information. The main results are the identification of the already existing standards that could be used for this purpose and how to combine them. Nevertheless, the area is quickly evolving and more specific standards could be specified.This work is partly supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2017 SGR 1749). Part of this work is also supported by the FAIR4Health project (Grant agreement 824666, European Commission) through EFMI (European Federation for Medical Informatics).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version