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12 Jun 2025

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GA4GH approves two new products: Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS) and Variant Annotation Specification (VA-Spec)

12 Jun 2025

Cat-VRS establishes a standard to enable search, analysis, and sharing across categorical properties of variant data. VA-Spec provides a model to explicitly express knowledge associated with a variant. Both products were developed by members of the Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream to foster greater precision in the representation of genomic knowledge. 

Read more in the press release here.

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