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.

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.

Paola Quattroni from Health Data Research UK presented "The Health Data Research Innovation Gateway: supporting trustworthy access to health data". Recording available.

GHGA organised a workshop titled "Best-Practise Beispiele für eine gemeinsame Genom-Datennutzung" at the annual meeting of the German Society for Human Genetics.

Christine Mundlos from ACHSE e.V. presented "We are only strong together - Chronic Rare Disease Alliance".

As part of the Science in the City, there was a one day interactive exhibit about GHGA and surrounding topics in a former store front in the old town of Heidelberg.

Joachim Schulze from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases presented "Swarm Learning, from research to medical use of genomic data". Recording available.

Helen Parkinson from the EMBL's European Bionformatics Institute presented "Data integration strategies for biomedicine".