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News

A child's open hand, with DNA coming out of it
4 Feb 2025
GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 2: consent and lawful bases)
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GA4GH New Co-Leads 2025, 5 headshots
30 Jan 2025
GA4GH welcomes new Co-Leads for four Work Streams
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A parent's and a child's hands join. A DNA strand weaves above the two hands in the background.
23 Jan 2025
GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 1: general considerations)
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Events

Picture of Uppsala, Sweden.
6 Oct 2025
13th Plenary
Plenary
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City skyline of Cambridge, USA
1 Apr 2025
April Connect 2025
Connect
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16 Sep 2024
12th Plenary
Plenary
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Videos

6 Jan 2025
GKS Work Stream Open House (January 2025)
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2 Feb 2024
GA4GH Fireside Chat with Heidi Rehm and Geoff Ginsburg
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1 Jan 2023
Implementing Data Connect — example 1 (CINECA)
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Podcasts

28 Feb 2024
OmicsXchange Season 2, Episode 1: Together for CHANGE: sequencing the African American genome with Lyndon Mitnaul and James Hildreth Sr.
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10 Jun 2022
OmicsXchange episode 17: exploring the Variation Representation Specification with Larry Babb and Alex Wagner
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27 May 2022
OmicsXchange episode 16: Atlas Variant Effects Alliance and interpreting human genetic variation — an interview with Clare Turnbull and Lea Starita
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Announcements

20 Feb 2025
The GA4GH 2024 Annual Report is now available!
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6 Feb 2025
13th Plenary registration is now open!
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4 Feb 2025
GA4GH Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 2: consent and lawful bases)
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Publications

2024
Use of Beacon v2 for Improving Genomics Based Research in a Clinical Setting
IOS Press
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2024
The Key Features of a Genetic Nondiscrimination Policy: A Delphi Consensus Statement
JAMA Network Open
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2024
The GA4GH Task Execution Application Programming Interface: Enabling Easy Multicloud Task Execution
Computing in Science & Engineering
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Newsletters

31 Aug 2022
GHIF Newsletter: gene curation (August 2022)
Implementation Notes
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7 Mar 2022
Genomics and Health News for 28 February to 7 March 2022
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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28 Feb 2022
Genomics and Health News for 21 to 28 February 2022
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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