Introduction

Passport is a digital identity for researchers that streamlines access to controlled biomedical datasets.

Passport implements authorization and identity standards from the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health that enable next generation data sharing policies for verifying researcher attributes from multiple identities.

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In particular, Passport fulfills these important functions:

• Authenticate users via supported identity providers

• Link accounts for the same user into one

• Attach attributes to user identities following international standards, enabling distributed access control

• Passport is the identity management system of choice for the DNAstack Explorer and Publisher products.

To use Explorer, Publisher or Workbench , you will need to log in with a Passport account.