The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive

 

We are building a secure national omics data infrastructure, enabling the use of human genome data for research purposes while preventing data misuse.

Our Mission

 

Impact

Omics data have the potential to revolutionise health care. Here we show how GHGA is an integral part of this process.

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Data protection

GHGA has developed a robust and appropriate legal and data protection structure.

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GHGA Lecture Series

Dive with us into the world of data-driven medicine and its ethical, legal and social implications. 

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New GHGA Podcast episode about human cells

Our DNA is (almost) identical in all our cells. But even though each cell has the same set of instructions, they perform different functions. In this episode we explore how that works.

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GHGA signs first Central-to-Data Hub Bilateral Contracts

As an important milestone on our way to launch the GHGA Archive, Central-to-Data Hub Bilateral Contracts have been signed between the DKFZ and TU Dresden, and between the DKFZ and EKUT.

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Join our new NGS Pipeline Benchmarking efforts

Benchmarking small pathogenic and structural variants can be challenging. Utilizing cutting-edge SeraSeq, GHGA partners with the NGS-CN to start a new initiative to benchmark NGS pipelines.

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GHGA Lecture Series: Alexander Sczyrba (virtual)

17 April 2024

Alexander Sczyrba from the University Bielefeld will talk about „"The de.NBI Cloud - Computing for Life Sciences". Register now!

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GHGA Lecture Series: Lorenz Grigull (virtual)

15 Mai 2024

Lorenz Grigull from the Bonn Center for Rare Diseases (ZSE Bonn) will talk about "The Path to Diagnosis, Misdiagnoses, and Pattern Recognition in Medicine" at the GHGA Lecture Series. Register now!

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Functional Epigenomics Conference

27 - 28 May 2024

The upcoming conference on "Functional Epigenomics", organised by GHGA member Jörn Walter, features an outstanding line-up of speakers, including GHGA members Oliver Stegle, Joachim Schultze and Philip Rosenstiel. Registration is now open!

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How we work

GHGA is tightly embedded and connected to national and international infrastructures and initiatives. It will be operated as a German national node of the federated European Genome-Phenome Archive (EGA).

GHGA is funded as part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI e.V.) via the DFG

With 46 Participants from 21 institutions, GHGA is organised in data hubs across Germany combining leading institutions in genomic medicine, major omics data producers (including four DFG Sequencing Centers) and HPC centers committed to provide scalable infrastructure.

To ensure smooth working, eight workstreams were formed.

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