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.

Michael Baudis from the University of Zurich talked about "Federated genomic discoveries: Deploying the GA4GH Beacon protocol". Watch it now!

Join us for the nf-core hackathon in Heidelberg. GHGA is pleased to host the local hub event to connect the community and spending three days hacking all things nf-core.

Join us for a practical introduction to Data Visualisation using R and Python.

Ruth Horn from the University Augsburg talked about „Ethical and social implications of public-private partnerships in the context of genomic/big health data collection". Watch it now!

Join us for this event hosted by GHGA as part of the Assured project, a modular training program for secure data use, in collaboration with GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and LMU Munich.

Join us for an introductory webinar on Data Visualisation and learn how to effectively communicate your scientific results through graphics.