Gazel

GAZEL is an open epidemiologic laboratory. Like major scientific instruments (telescopes or particle accelerators, for example, or genotyping laboratories equipped with sequencers), GAZEL was not constructed to answer a specific question. Instead it was designed to help analyze a wide range of scientific problems and is accessible to the community of researchers specializing in epidemiology. In accordance with its purpose as a scientific research platform, the GAZEL cohort is permanently open to epidemiologic research teams. Today, more than 50 projects on very diversified themes have been set up in GAZEL by some 20 teams, French, belonging to different bodies, and foreign (Germany, Belgium, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, and USA).

GAZEL系一开放性的流行病学实验室。类似于大型科学仪器（如望远镜或粒子加速器，亦或配备测序仪的基因分型实验室），GAZEL并非为解答某一特定问题而构建。相反，其设计初衷在于协助解析广泛多样的科学问题，并便于流行病学研究的学者社群所使用。遵循其作为科学研究平台的目的，GAZEL队列对流行病学研究团队始终保持开放。截至目前，GAZEL内已设立超过50个涉及众多不同主题的项目，由约20支法国团队以及来自德国、比利时、加拿大、英国、瑞典、芬兰和美国的外国团队所发起。