This Data Protection Course is designed for anyone who works with personal data in the biomedical field, including healthcare professionals, researchers, administrators, and data stewards.

The upcoming conference on "Functional Epigenomics", organised by GHGA member Jörn Walter, features an outstanding line-up of speakers, including GHGA members Oliver Stegle, Joachim Schultze and Philip Rosenstiel. Registration is now open!

Why are metadata important for research and data analysis? Which genomic data portals are out there and what do we need from them? How do we make our research data FAIR?

Steven Laurie from the Spanish National Centre for Genomic Analysis (CNAG) will talk about "The RD-Connect Genome-Phenome Analysis Platform (GPAP)" at the GHGA lecture series. Register now!

Sarah Teichmann from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute will talk about "(Machine) learnings for the Human Cell Atlas" at the GHGA lecture series. Register now!

We are excited to announce that GHGA will be presenting a tutorial on NGS Workflow Harmonization at the upcoming German Conference for Bioinformatics on September 30, 2024.

Ascona2024 is a one week workshop on statistical modelling of spatial and temporal omics data

Christine Mundlos from ACHSE e.V. presented "We are only strong together - Chronic Rare Disease Alliance".

As part of the Science in the City, there was a one day interactive exhibit about GHGA and surrounding topics in a former store front in the old town of Heidelberg.

Joachim Schulze from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases presented "Swarm Learning, from research to medical use of genomic data". Recording available.

Helen Parkinson from the EMBL's European Bionformatics Institute presented "Data integration strategies for biomedicine".

Ivo Gut from the CNAG-CRG in Barcelona presented "The experience of infrastructure projects" (recording available).

The first GHGA Annual Meeting took place on Oct 27-28 in Heidelberg. The meeting included a virtual public Mini-Symposium entitled "Unlocking the Power of Genomic Medicine via FAIR Data Sharing" (recordings available).