Compress. Connect. Collaborate.
As genomic sequencing increases around the globe, it becomes vital to store this data efficiently and sustainably. GA4GH’s CRAM file format for genomic data compression tackles this challenge and helps facilitate global collaboration.
Scroll through the videos below to learn how it has benefited existing users and how you can get involved, too.
Chair of GA4GH, Director of EMBL-EBI
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) is an international, nonprofit alliance formed in 2013 to accelerate the potential of research and medicine to advance human health. Bringing together almost 600 leading organizations working in healthcare, research, patient advocacy, life science, and information technology, the GA4GH community is working together to create standards and frameworks to enable responsible and secure global data exchange.
Wellcome Sanger Institute
Illumina, Inc.
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; NIH All of Us Research Program
There are many ways to get involved. Start the dialogue at your organization or institute around using CRAM.
Garvan Institute
LIBRARIES & TOOLS SUPPORTING CRAM
Software Libraries
htslib | htsjdk | PySam | Bio::DB::HTS | RustBio
Tools
Samtools | GATK | Picard | IGV | Crumble
Data Archives
European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) | European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA)
Genome Browsers
ENSEMBL | JBrowse | UCSC Genome Browser