The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive

 

We are building a secure national omics data infrastructure, enabling the use of human genome data for research purposes while preventing data misuse.

Our Mission

 

MV GenomSeq

The genome data collected within the MV GenomSeq is archived in GHGA and, with the patient's consent, made available for research.

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Impact

Omics data have the potential to revolutionise health care. Here we show how GHGA is an integral part of this process.

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Data protection

GHGA has developed a robust and appropriate legal and data protection structure.

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GHGA becomes member of the GA4GH National Initiatives Forum

GHGA has officially joined the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) National Initiatives Forum (NIF), a global community of genomics initiatives dedicated to advancing human health through collaboration and knowledge exchange.

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Major Feature Release for the GHGA Data Portal

In a substantial development, we are proud to announce the launch of the next stage of the GHGA Data Portal, allowing controlled data access directly via GHGA for the first time.

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Role of GHGA within the MV GenomSeq solidifies

The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) has approved six GHGA Data Hubs as Genome Data Centres to handle sensitive genome data from patients within the Model Project Genome Sequencing.

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GHGA Lecture Series: Zornitza Stark and Sebastian Lunke (virtual)

18 September 2024

Zornitza Stark and Sebastian Lunke from the Victorian Clinical Genetics Services will talk at the GHGA lecture series ("Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine") on September 18, 2024.

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Webinar: FAIR biomedical data for FAIR portals

26 September 2024

Join us for a webinar on metadata - 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?

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GHGA Symposium 2024

15 October 2024

Guests are welcome! GHGA will hold a public symposium on 15 October 2024 in Heidelberg, as part of the GHGA Annual Meeting 2024.

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How we work

GHGA is tightly embedded and connected to national and international infrastructures and initiatives. It will be operated as a German national node of the federated European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA).

GHGA is funded as part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI e.V.) via the DFG

With 46 Participants from 21 institutions, GHGA is organised in data hubs across Germany combining leading institutions in genomic medicine, major omics data producers (including four DFG Sequencing Centers) and HPC centers committed to provide scalable infrastructure.

To ensure smooth working, eight workstreams were formed.

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