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News
4 Dec 2025
Introducing new Community of Interest leadership
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Blog Posts
20 Nov 2025
Individual attitudes toward medical and genetic data sharing in Latin America and development of two new indexes
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News
13 Nov 2025
The Experiments Metadata Checklist is an approved GA4GH product
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Events

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28 Sep 2026
14th Plenary
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14 Apr 2026
April Connect 2026
Connect
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6 Oct 2025
13th Plenary
Plenary
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Videos

19 Nov 2025
GKS Work Stream Open House (November 2025)
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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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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

4 Dec 2025
Introducing new GA4GH Community of Interest leadership!
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20 Nov 2025
GA4GH Public Attitudes blog post explores individual attitudes toward medical and genetic data sharing in Latin America and the development of two new indexes
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13 Nov 2025
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Product Steering Committee has approved the release of two new GA4GH products: Experiments Metadata Checklist and Whole Genome Sequencing Quality Control Standards
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Publications

2025
pgxRpi: an R/bioconductor package for user-friendly access to the Beacon v2 API
Bioinformatics Advances
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2025
Communicating clearly about data sharing in genomics
Human Genomics
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2024
Use of Beacon v2 for Improving Genomics Based Research in a Clinical Setting
IOS Press
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Newsletters

22 Apr 2025
Genomics and Health news for 15 to 22 April 2025
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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15 Apr 2025
Genomics and Health news for 8 to 15 April 2025
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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8 Apr 2025
Genomics and Health news for 25 March to 8 April 2025
Weekly Genomics and Health News
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