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.

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!

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!

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.

Learn how metagenomics and metatranscriptomics have revolutionized our understanding of microbial communities, by allowing us to studying them without culturing individual organisms.

Lorenz Grigull from the Center for Rare Diseases at the Bonn University Hospital talked about "The Path to Diagnosis, Misdiagnoses, and Pattern Recognition in Medicine" at the GHGA lecture series. Watch it now!

Alexander Sczyrba from the University Bielefeld talked about „"The de.NBI Cloud - Computing for Life Sciences". Watch it now!