Events

Mark your calendars for 03-05 November 2026 in Heidelberg! GHGA spokespersons, team members, and our Scientific Advisory Board will come together to celebrate achievements, share updates, and plan future work.

How do polygenic risk scores change the way we approach genetic discrimination? At the GHGA Annual Meeting 2026, Prof. Bartha Knoppers explores the ethical and societal challenges of an increasingly genomic future.

Join the next de.NBI and GHGA webinar to discover how GHGA’s production-level bioinformatics workflows, DROP and Spotlight, analyze multi-omics data to drive rare disease genomic discoveries.

DataPLANT hosts the NFDI4LifeScience Conference in conjunction with the International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics from 2 – 4 September 2026 at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) in Gatersleben.

Organised by de.NBI & ELIXIR-DE, the BioHackathon Germany brings together life scientists, bioinformaticians, and data stewards for an intensive week of collaborative hacking - covering FAIR, identifiers, metadata standards, ontologies and metadata catalogues.

GHGA metadata experts Anandhi Iyappan and Karoline Mauer are invited to talk about FAIR data and FAIR portals at the EASE webinar hosted by German Regional Chapter of the European Association of Science Editors. Register for free, if you also love FAIR data!

Curious about Research Data Management (RDM) and its significance, especially in human research? de.NBI and GHGA have designed the ideal interactive training session for you, combining informative presentations with hands-on exercises!

Kyle Farh from Illumina talked about "How do you train genomics AI?" at the GHGA lecture series. Watch it now!

Join GHGA member Kübra Narcı for an introduction to workflow standardisation and maintenance at the NFDITalk series.

Gerrit Meijer from the Netherlands Cancer Institute talked about "Gearing up omics based research with the Dutch national health data research infrastructure Health-RI" at the GHGA lecture series. Watch it now!

Enabling closer collaboration, we are pleased to announce the first NFDI BioMed Workshop in Heidelberg bringing together NFDI4Bioimage, NFDI4Health, NFDI4Immuno, NFDI4Microbiota and GHGA.