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While praising GHGA and its team effort to establish a national database, the SAB stressed the value of the infrastructure and its need for a long term perspective. A request to funders rather than GHGA.

Early October, GHGA team members and PIs came together in Heidelberg for some valuable facetime, with two days filled with interesting talks and discussions. The focus of this year's meeting revolved around the Scientific Advisory Board.

A recent publication, spearheaded by the Next Generation Sequencing Competence Network (NGS-CN) and GHGA, introduces NCBench, a platform for continuous benchmarking of genomic variant calling workflows.

As we prepare to launch GHGA Archive, a white paper describing both how our legal and data protection structure operates and how our obligations and ambitions have shaped our work has been published.

Participating actively in two conferences in September, CoRDI and GCB, GHGA members networked closely with the research data infrastructure and bioinformatics communities.

With the refactoring of the GHGA Metadata Model to version 1.0, we released a white paper summarising the development of the model and describing the modelling framework in detail.

In a recently published white paper, we summarise the results of the PaGODA-Study and present a concept with concrete steps for implementation of meaningful patient involvement in the governance of GHGA.

GHGA welcomes the recent release of the GDI Starter Kit, a set of software tools to give participating countries the technical capability to access synthetic genomic and phenotypic data across borders. A first step to the production phase within the project.

Spending a few hot days in the shade of the Black Forest, the GHGA team, joined by several PIs, enjoyed three days of digital detox and strategy discussion!

The 15th International Workshop on Science Gateways was hosted by GHGA member Jens Krüger and featured presentations on GHGA’s data protection concept and the GHGA Metadata Catalog.

A delegation from GHGA joined the All-Hands meeting of ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for life science data, strengthening ties with de.NBI, fEGA, GA4GH, and more.

In March 2023, we released version 0.9.1 of the GHGA Metadata Model, which includes a refined metadata structure and lists of controlled vocabularies and standardized ontologies.