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 The GHGA Data Portal
The genome data collected within the MV GenomSeq is archived in GHGA and, with the patient's consent, made available for research.
Omics data have the potential to revolutionise health care. Here we show how GHGA is an integral part of this process.
GHGA has developed a robust and appropriate legal and data protection structure.
Discussion around expectations and needs towards patient communication. The aim is to build a comprehensive online information hub for patients, care-givers, and the interested public. Registration for focus groups is open.
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GHGA is pleased to announce the legal onboarding of our GHGA Data Hubs in Berlin, Cologne and Munich, marking a significant step forward in the development of its federated data infrastructure.
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Five NFDI consortia met in Heidelberg to explore synergies in biomedical data management, laying the groundwork for long-term cooperation to improve the management of complex biomedical data.
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19 February 2025
Susanna Zucca from enGenome will talk about "Using artificial intelligence for the interpretation of genomic variants" at the GHGA lecture series "Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine" on February 19, 2025.
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19 March 2025
Thomas Keane from EMBL-EBI will talk about "The Federated European Genome-Phenome Archive as a global network for sensitive data discovery and access" at the GHGA lecture series "Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine" on March 19, 2025.
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24-26 March 2025
Join us for the nf-core hackathon in Heidelberg. GHGA is pleased to host the local hub event to connect the community and spending three days hacking all things nf-core.
Learn moreGHGA is part of the NFDI e.V. and is funded by the DFG. We are closely integrated with both national and international infrastructures and initiatives, such as GDI, EGA, GA4GH, and the model project GenomSeq model project.
As a national initiative created by researchers for researchers, GHGA brings together expertise from over 20 leading institutions in genomic medicine, major omics data producers (including four DFG Sequencing Centres), and high-performance computing (HPC) centres. These institutions are dedicated to providing scalable infrastructure for genomic research.
Our infrastructure is managed in a federated manner and organised into data hubs located across Germany.
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"At GHGA, we enable data-driven research in the interest of patients and the public. For us, patient engagement is not a secondary process but an integral part of our mission."
"GHGA will go beyond data archive - the goal is to establish a comprehensive genome data infrastructure and research platform that will also act as a bridge between basic research and translation."
"GHGA will be a key infrastructure for the archiving, and sharing, of sensitive human genomics research data requiring appropriate protection, in Germany and internationally. Go data sharing to advance research for the common good!”
"GHGA has been pivotal in driving national developments in genome medicine, operating core infrastructure for the MV GenomSeq project, and advancing the integration of genome research with clinical care in Germany."
"Using knowledge generating patient care with systemic multi-omics analyses in research projects can help develop new diagnoses for rare disease patients. To enable and simplify data sharing between researchers and facilitate such analyses, we have GHGA."
“We need a new approach for cancer therapy decision making! GHGA establishes the infrastructure to combine new omics approaches with longitudinal clinical data towards dynamic swarm intelligence based algorithms for advanced patient navigation.”
