๐Ÿงฌ Rare Disease Datasets

Community-contributed, FAIR-compliant disease trajectory datasets from GA4GH biohackathon sessions. Each disease gets its own versioned dataset โ€” machine-readable in RDF Turtle and JSON-LD, queryable via SPARQL, and ready to use as input for your hackathon.

2 disease datasets CC BY 4.0 Updated 2026-04-12 git-versioned

๐Ÿ“ฅ Load this index

# Python (rdflib)
from rdflib import Graph
g = Graph()
g.parse("https://fdp.semscape.org/ga4gh-rare-disease-trajectories/diseases/index.ttl")
# R (rdflib)
library(rdflib)
url <- "https://fdp.semscape.org/ga4gh-rare-disease-trajectories/diseases/index.ttl"
rdf <- rdf_parse(url, format="turtle")
# curl
curl https://fdp.semscape.org/ga4gh-rare-disease-trajectories/diseases/index.ttl

๐Ÿ”Ž Query all diseases at once

PREFIX dcat:    <https://www.w3.org/ns/dcat#>
PREFIX dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
PREFIX ordo:    <http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_>

# List all diseases + their ORDO ID
SELECT ?disease ?title ?ordo WHERE {
  ?disease a dcat:Dataset ;
           dcterms:title ?title .
  OPTIONAL { ?disease dcterms:subject ?ordo .
    FILTER(STRSTARTS(STR(?ordo),
      "http://www.orpha.net")) }
}

Disease datasets (2)

Each card links to a standalone, versioned FAIR dataset for that disease.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
ORPHA:803
๐Ÿ“‹ 1 case ๐Ÿ” 0 ontology gaps ๐Ÿ“Š 0 data gaps
ALS TDI Registry (ALS Therapy Development Institute)
First contributed: 2026-04-12 ยท Updated: 2026-04-12
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)
ORPHA:98895
๐Ÿ“‹ 1 case ๐Ÿ” 0 ontology gaps ๐Ÿ“Š 0 data gaps
Duchenne Data Platform (Duchenne Parent Project / FAIR Data Systems S.L.)
First contributed: 2026-04-12 ยท Updated: 2026-04-12

Missing a disease? Submit a case via the BYOD web form โ€” it takes 5 minutes and no GitHub account is needed. Your submission becomes a versioned FAIR dataset within 60 seconds.

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