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Things got athletic in July. Ten members of the GHGA team took part in the 10th NCT Run - a charitable run against cancer! The virtual event took place over the span of three days from the 02-04 of July.

A new study demonstrates the feasibility and clinical value of whole-genome/exome sequencing and RNA sequencing in patients suffering from early onset or rare cancer types. 

The CoGDat is an initiative launched by researchers across Germany. 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.

GHGA celebrated a First in June: The outreach team manned GHGA's first - virtual - booth at a conference. Following a promotional shout-out during Oliver Stegle’s talk, the breakout room at the LifeTime 2.0 conference saw quite a few visitors on the second day.

Hosted by Susanne Motameny and Koray Kirli, invited external guest speakers and specialists from within GHGA presented different aspects around the usage of metadata and ontologies.

GHGA is funded by the DFG via the German national program for research data infrastructures, the NFDI. Recently, the NFDI office in Karlsruhe has been turned into a registered association - a “eingetragener Verein” or e.V. in German.

The Corona pandemic has shown us just how important sharing access to research as well as clinical data is. Fittingly, the second FORUM Science & Health of BioM discussed digital medicine and whether Germany is a “data treasure” or “data desert”.

GHGA members interested in metadata and ontologies attended the DUO workshop held by The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) held a press conference to announce the start of NFDI. Following statements by Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek and AWI-Director Antje Boetius, NFDI Director York Sure-Vetter introduced NFDI and its goals.

In the publication, Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor and Jan Korbel describe the work of GHGA and the legal aspects when working with human genome data.

The DFG has released the fourth call for sequencing costs within projects. Via the call, researchers can apply for funding to carry out sequencings at one of the four DFG-funded competence centres for next generation sequencing.

GHGA organized an interdisciplinary workshop entitled “Towards building a national genome data infrastructure - Synergies and Challenges”. Over 50 participants from various institutions and organizations, ranging from clinical practice to fundamental research, discussed ...