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.

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).

The All-Hands Meeting (internal only) took place on Wednesday, July 28, 2021 from 15:00 to 18:00.

The University of Tübingen organized an event on research data management (in German only).

Three GHGA PIs organized the Marsilius Kolleg lecture series on this highly important topic for GHGA.