As a secure national omics data infrastructure, GHGA enables the use of human omics data in research, while ensuring data security and preventing misuse.
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The genome data collected within the genomDE model project 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.
The GHGA Retreat 2025 brought together over 60 members of the GHGA consortium for three days of strategic exchange, focused workshops, and collaborative planning.
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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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16 April 2025
Antje Keppler from EMBL will talk about "The Euro-BioImaging BioHub and its imaging services" at the GHGA lecture series "Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine" on April 16, 2025.
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21 May 2025
Rami Abou Jamra from the University Leipzig will talk about "Genome sequencing for rare disease diagnostics: uncovering hidden causal variants" at the GHGA lecture series "Advances in Data-Driven Biomedicine" on May 21, 2025.
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.
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.”
