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News

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5 Dec 2024
Model Data Access Agreement Clauses have been approved as an official GA4GH Product
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14 Nov 2024
GA4GH 13th Plenary
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GA4GH announces an open call for nominations for the GA4GH Inc. Board of Directors
12 Nov 2024
GA4GH Inc. opens call for new Board members to enhance global leadership in genomics
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Events

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6 Oct 2025
13th Plenary
Plenary
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1 Apr 2025
April Connect 2025
Connect
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16 Sep 2024
12th Plenary
Plenary
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Videos

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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1 Jan 2023
Implementing Data Connect — example 2 (dbGaP)
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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

5 Dec 2024
The GA4GH Model Data Access Agreement (DAA) Clauses have been approved as an official GA4GH product
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26 Nov 2024
VRS v2.0 Specification: Open for Public Comment
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22 Nov 2024
Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream Open House meetings starting on 6 January
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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 GA4GH Task Execution Application Programming Interface: Enabling Easy Multicloud Task Execution
Computing in Science & Engineering
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2024
Should secondary pharmacogenomic variants be actively screened and reported when diagnostic genome-wide sequencing is performed in a child?
Genetics in Medicine
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Newsletters

7 Nov 2022
GA4GH GDPR Brief: the EU Data Governance Act — new pathways for consented reuse of information (October 2022)
GDPR Briefs
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21 Jun 2022
Genomics and Health News for 12 to 19 June 2022
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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30 Nov 2020
Genomics and Health News for 23 to 30 November 2020
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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