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The NGS community came together to highlight the role of sequencing in crisis and establish a clear picture for the future of sequencing across all areas of life science. 

Inversions in the human genome form more commonly than previously thought, impacting our understanding of genetic stability and diseases.

A new study introduces a workflow with the clinical implementation of RNA sequencing in conjunction with DNA sequencing to diagnose patients with rare genetic disorders.

Within a participatory study, GHGA will hold deliberative democratic forums exploring the patients’ perspectives and which concrete roles patients could take within GHGA governance.

With our goal in mind to create and implement best-practise workflows, GHGA team members attended the nf-core hackathon.

GHGA participated at the GfH conference (German Society for Human Genetics) and organized a workshop titled “The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA): Best practice examples for shared genome data usage”.

As part of the IdeenLauf all citizens are invited to put their questions to science forward. As a consortium of the NFDI e.V., GHGA is particularly involved in the area of research data management.

As part of the DKFZ “Science in the City” GHGA held an interactive exhibition around FAIR data sharing in genomics in a store front in Heidelberg.

Comparative law publication clarifies questions around harmonization under the GDPR concerning health data and genetic data.

Congratulations to our GHGA co-spokesperson and legal expert Fruzsina Molnár-Gábor who was appointed as a new member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE).

In the run up to Christmas, GHGA introduced members of its team, GHGA participants and co-spokespersons as well as the GHGA Board of Directors in a twitter campaign.