CoGDat Development reaches Milestone

The SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Data Platform (CoGDat) is an initiative launched by researchers across Germany. Central goals of CoGDat are the collection, analysis and publication of the sequencing raw data that are being generated in the context of the SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance efforts initiated by the German government in January 2021. GHGA contributes to the CoGDat effort both on a conceptual level in the data privacy domain as well as through the development of the data portal software DataMeta, which enables the submission, tracking and processing of the aforementioned data by contributing sequencing laboratories. Marking a big milestone, the first stable release of DataMeta was published and the CoGDat data protection plan received organization level approval.