New GA4GH product establishes guidance to address genetic discrimination The GA4GH Regulatory & Ethics Work Stream has published a newly approved product: The Position Statement on Genetic Discrimination (GD). This Position statement outlines recommendations to monitor...

From @ga4gh.org | New #GA4GH product establishes guidance to address genetic discrimination | #GD #GeneticDiscrimination #Education #Genomics #Ethics #Law 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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Taming the reference genome jungle: the refget sequence collection standard. #ReferenceGenomes #Transcriptomes #SequenceCollectionStandards #GA4GH @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to be attending the 13th Conference of the #GA4GH in Uppsala, Sweden! Thrilled to re-connect with Dr. Peter Goodhand (GA4GH CEO) and Dr. Étienne Richer (Director, Genomics Programs, @genomecanada.ca).

Check out Dr. Alex Wagner, PI in the Institute for Genomic Medicine @nationwidekids.bsky.social in this upcoming lecture series! #GenomicMedicine #Genomics #GA4GH

Learn more about his work: www.nationwidechildrens.org/specialties/...

Image is a digitally created announcement card in the GHGA colors, light green and orange. The text reads "The Variation Representation Specification (VRS) - enabling consistent variant exchange", 23.07.2025, 16:00 CEST" next to a photo of the speaker, Alex Wagner.

📅 July 23: Alex Wagner (Nationwide Children's Hospital) joins the GHGA lecture series to discuss VRS—a @ga4gh.org standard for consistent genetic variant exchange. Don’t miss it!

🔗 Register: dkfz-de.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Genomics #GA4GH #VRS #GHGA

👨‍🔬Are you a researcher working with genomic and health data?

⭐️Discover Pheno-Ranker: a toolkit for comparison of phenotypic data stored in @ga4gh.org standards and beyond

🎧 Listen to the podcast: cnag-biomedical-informatics.github.io/pheno-ranker...

#Genomics #CNAG #HealthData #GA4GH

Pheno-Ranker: a toolkit for comparison of phenotypic data stored in GA4GH standards and beyond - BMC Bioinformatics Background Phenotypic data comparison is essential for disease association studies, patient stratification, and genotype–phenotype correlation analysis. To support these efforts, the Global Alliance…

🔎 Have you seen Pheno-Ranker in action? A new toolkit for comparing phenotypic data

➡️ Developed by Manuel Rueda and @ivoleist.bsky.social‬ at CNAG

📖 Explore its applications with the OMIM Database & Phenopackets Corpus: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Bioinformatics #GA4GH #CNAG #Genomics

Learn more about these initiatives & how they foster the use of genomic data in health research: ga4gh.org | pathoplexus.org #GA4GH 4/4

Learn about Loculus Loculus is a software package for microbial genome databases

Our session, hosted by the GA4GH Infectious Disease Community, focused on:

- Introducing Pathoplexus & Loculus.org to the GA4GH community
- Identifying synergies with GA4GH standards
- Outlining next steps for tech development & collaboration #GA4GH #DataSharing 3/4

GIF “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) programmes The GIF AMA programme is a series of events and resources that bring GA4GH product teams and current and future implementers together to discuss product implementation questions and challenges.

Do you know the @ga4gh.org Implementation Forum (GIF) "Ask Me Anything" programmes? This series of events is aimed at bringing potential implementers of the #GA4GH products closer to experts

www.ga4gh.org/what-we-do/g...

Visiting the Broad Institute near Boston to attend #GA4GHConnect and meet with Heidi Rehm, #gnomAD team and Hail team ! That's an honor to be here.

#GA4GH #Genomics

Calling all @ga4gh.org Connect 2025 attendees online and in-person, let's connect here on bluesky! #ga4ghconnect2025 #ga4gh #bioinformatics #genomics

European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) The EGA is a global network for the permanent archiving and sharing of personally identifiable genetic, phenotypic, and clinical data generated for biomedical research projects or in the context of re...

ℹ️ GA4GH Driver Projects are real-world initiatives that help build and implement #GA4GH standards, tools, and frameworks

We are more than proud to be part of these projects, that shape GA4GH products and apply them to real genomic data 🙌🧬

www.ga4gh.org/driver_proje...

Pheno-Ranker: a toolkit for comparison of phenotypic data stored in GA4GH standards and beyond - BMC Bioinformatics Background Phenotypic data comparison is essential for disease association studies, patient stratification, and genotype–phenotype correlation analysis. To support these efforts, the Global Alliance f...

Pheno-Ranker: a toolkit for comparison of phenotypic data stored in GA4GH standards and beyond. #PhenotypicData #GA4GH #Genomics #BMCbioinformatics 🧬 🖥️
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📍 @bsc-cns.bsky.social | #GA4GH | #IMPaCTdata

@HeidiRehm @GA4GH #GA4GH results of gap analysis: we need to focus on #implementation as well as on standards

ENA delighted to be part of a GA4GH driver project http://bit.ly/2gQrjMx with @emblebi friends @EGAarchive and @EVArchive #GA4GH