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.

Data Management Plans (DMPs) are an essential component of research projects to ensure that data is adequately documented, organised, shared, and preserved throughout the research lifecycle. In this webinar, we will provide an introduction to DMPs.

Hans-Ulrich Prokosch from the University Hospital Erlangen talked about „The German Research Data Portal for Health (FDPG) and its accompanying central services“. Watch it now!

Unlock the power of NGS harmonization!. Join us for the second part of our two part webinar series on NGS harmonization and benchmarking

Unlock the power of NGS harmonization! Join us for a two-part virtual webinar series on workflow standardization and benchmarking, featuring practical tips and best practices for achieving harmonization using the Sarek pipeline as an example.

This course is designed to provide an overview of data protection regulations and obligations, with a focus on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Martin Hirst from the University of British Columbia (UBC) talked about "THe EpiATLAS – a reference for human epigenomic research". Watch it now!