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Participating actively in the Functional Epigenomics Conference in Saarbrücken, GHGA engaged closely with the epigenomics community for the first time.

GHGA joined the de.NBI/ELIXIR-Germany Spatial Hackathon ‘SpaceHack2.0’, advancing community-driven benchmarking.

In a two-day General Assembly, the achievements of the GDI's first year were discussed, and plans for the next year were outlined, with GHGA actively participating as Germany’s GDI node.

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.

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

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.

GHGA organized a workshop at the GfH conference (german society for human genetics) on “Best practice examples for shared genome data usage”. The Workshop focused on the importance of Metadata and the new GHGA Metadata Catalog.

Visiting the Finnish federated EGA node, GHGA met with CSC members to establish further collaborations and to discuss similarities, differences, and common challenges.

Bringing together experts in bioinformatic infrastructures, the 1st BioHackathon Germany saw exciting projects come to life. GHGA was excited to be part of the event.

GHGA participated at the SCOG conference ‘Single Cell Omics in Clinical Applications’ with a GHGA satellite event, engaging with the single cell community for the first time.