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Precision Health Research Singapore (PRECISE) is named the first GA4GH Regional Hub Institution
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EDPB Guidelines 1/2026: What are “scientific research purposes” in the context of personal data processing?
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Greater Bay Area Bioinformatics Center leverages GA4GH standards to navigate data sovereignty and advance genomic research in China
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GA4GH Product in Action: Individual-Centric Genomics Platform JPN
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Genomics England has become a Core Funder of GA4GH
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GA4GH Work Streams evolve to match the scale of modern genomics
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The GA4GH Analytics Dashboard translates a decade of open science into data
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GA4GH and INMEGEN agree to a Strategic Partnership to expand the use of genomic data standards in Latin America
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GA4GH launches formal endorsement programme for externally developed standards — Mondo Disease Ontology named first recognised resource
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GA4GH Product in Action: GA4GH standards implementation at Ensembl
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GA4GH publishes its 2025 Annual Report
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GA4GH launches new Work Stream to support responsible AI in genomics and health
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GA4GH 14th Plenary will take place in Singapore
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New GA4GH product establishes guidance to address genetic discrimination
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New GA4GH product helps gNBS implementers navigate ethical, legal, and social issues
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GA4GH standards implementation in the Rakeiora Genomics Platform supports data security and sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand
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From definitions to design: why seven dimensions matter for data visiting
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International genomic data sharing by health technologies industries (HTIs): eight Points to Consider
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Older research participants are motivated to receive genetic results for the benefit of younger relatives
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Introducing new Community of Interest leadership
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Individual attitudes toward medical and genetic data sharing in Latin America and development of two new indexes
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The Experiments Metadata Checklist is an approved GA4GH product
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Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) Quality Control (QC) Standards approved as an official GA4GH product
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The GA4GH Genomic Knowledge Standards (GKS) Work Stream defines a “common language” to share genetic variation data
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The role of the ‘commercialisation effect’ in shaping Australians’ attitudes towards a hypothetical national genomic repository
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Advancing the dialogue on global health data sharing: highlights from GA4GH 13th Plenary
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Borderless data, boundless hurdles: navigating the challenges of international federated sharing
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GA4GH welcomes new leadership
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The GA4GH Cloud Work Stream facilitates large-scale genomic data analysis by bringing “compute to the data”
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: The perceived risks of sharing genomic data with researchers
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GA4GH and CRDSA agree to a Strategic Partnership
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Policy Brief: will the UK participate in the European Health Data Space?
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GA4GH approves two new products: Categorical Variation Representation Specification (Cat-VRS) and Variant Annotation Specification (VA-Spec)
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Nicky Mulder joins the GA4GH Executive Leadership Team
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refget Sequence Collections is an approved GA4GH product
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Variation Representation Specification (VRS) v2.0 is an approved GA4GH product
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Sasha Siegel joins GA4GH as Chief Product Officer
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GA4GH Inc. welcomes four new Board Members
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The GA4GH Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture Work Stream standardises patient data capture to advance disease treatment
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GA4GH publishes its first Annual Report
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This year is different: we need your help to secure GA4GH’s future
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Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 2: consent and lawful bases)
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GA4GH welcomes new Co-Leads for four Work Streams
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Policy Brief: children’s data protection and genomic research (part 1: general considerations)
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: Public perceptions of international genetic information sharing for biomedical research in China
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Model Data Access Agreement Clauses have been approved as an official GA4GH Product
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GA4GH 13th Plenary will take place in Uppsala, Sweden
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GA4GH Inc. opens call for new Board members to enhance global leadership in genomics
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What do we mean by “more diverse” data?: GA4GH’s new product encourages a holistic approach to diversity in datasets
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Policy Brief: navigating the data sharing implications of national security policies
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International leaders in genomics call for action to scale genomic data sharing
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Coming together as a global genomics community: highlights from GA4GH 12th Plenary
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Policy Brief: The European Health Data Space — From approval to national implementation
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GA4GH Genomic Knowledge Standards Work Stream welcomes new Co-Leads Melissa Cline and Alex Wagner
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Advancing GA4GH products with the updated Product Development and Approval Process
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GA4GH Data Use & Researcher Identity Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Jonathan Lawson
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The GA4GH Cancer Community welcomes new Co-Leads Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Zinaida Perova, and Bernie Pope
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Connecting GA4GH standards to community practice through unconferences
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GA4GH and the Research Data Alliance (RDA) agree to a Strategic Relationship to advance responsible data sharing
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Public attitudes for genomic policy brief: genomic data sharing in Singapore
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Uncovering and overcoming common data sharing challenges in the Rare Disease landscape
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The Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Institute of Genomic Medicine at McGill University is formally named as a fifth Host Institution of GA4GH
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A letter from the Chair: introducing the members of the inaugural GA4GH Strategic Leadership Committee
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GA4GH submits comments on the WHO’s draft principles for human genome access, use, and sharing
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GA4GH Data Security Work Stream welcomes new Co-Leads Jaime Delgado and Andrew Russette
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HDR UK and GA4GH form a strategic partnership to unite genomic and health data
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Policy Brief: when are synthetic health data personal data?
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Putting GA4GH standards into practice: Mallory Freeberg and Alastair Thomson to lead GA4GH Implementation Forum
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Supporting alignment across GA4GH standards: TASC seeks feedback on new pagination guide
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Grand challenges in rare diseases: register for the GA4GH Rare Disease Community of Interest webinar on 29 February 2024
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NIH and GA4GH commit to ongoing collaboration
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GA4GH opens call for members of the new Strategic Leadership Committee
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GA4GH Clinical & Phenotypic Data Capture Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Mónica Muñoz-Torres of the University of Colorado
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Two leading standards bodies launch Neuroscience Community, powering a global data network that will speed up answers in autism, Parkinson’s, addiction, and more
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Want to help shape guidelines for pandemic prep, schema consensus, sequencing metadata, and categorical variants? Join four new GA4GH groups!
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: genetic exceptionalism
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Heidi Rehm will succeed Ewan Birney as GA4GH Chair
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Making strides to bridge genomic data and medicine, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) names 10 new Driver Projects
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Supporting a collaborative and safe GA4GH: introducing the Code of Ethics and Community Conduct
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: familiarity
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Scaling VCF for a genomic revolution
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refget v2.0 links the hidden dictionaries of DNA
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GA4GH Discovery Work Stream welcomes new Co-Lead Nara Sobreira of Johns Hopkins Medicine
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GA4GH refreshes its strategic plan
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: return of research results
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Policy Brief: GDPR going forward — prospects of resuming transatlantic data sharing
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Shaping the future of genomic data use: GA4GH opens call for next generation of Driver Projects
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Representing structural variation: introducing a new VRS Special Interest Group
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: what does the United Kingdom public think about the storage and use of its genetic data?
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Policy Brief: the EU Data Governance Act — new pathways for consented reuse of information
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GA4GH Inc. adds five new Directors, expanding global representation in genomics leadership
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Barcelona shapes the future of medicine
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Public Attitudes for Genomic Policy Brief: trust and trustworthiness
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New templates streamline gaining consent for clinical genomics and large-scale initiatives — completing the GA4GH Consent Toolkit
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First GA4GH standard published by ISO will reshape how doctors and researchers share phenotypic information
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Policy Brief: data protection implications of publishing metadata to enable discovery
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GA4GH Data Access Committee Review Standards policy aims to standardise the data access process
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How a bot beamed from California to Japan may stop unnecessary mastectomies for breast cancer patients
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Geraldine Van der Auwera of the Broad joins GA4GH as Co-Lead of the Large Scale Genomics Work Stream
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New release of GA4GH Beacon expands genomic and clinical data access
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Policy Brief: federated analysis for responsible data sharing under the GDPR
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Reggan Thomas
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GA4GH BED v1.0: a formal standard sets ground rules for genomic features
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GA4GH announces new Co-Leads for Work Streams and FASP
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Michael Baudis
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GA4GH seeks feedback on meeting international genomics community needs
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Fireside chat with Susan Fairley and Chris Wigley
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GA4GH response to proposed updates to NIH Genomic Data Sharing Policy
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Policy Brief: what constitutes an "international data transfer"? Recent developments by the EDPB and implications for genomic and health data sharing
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An international framework for returning clinically actionable genomic results to research participants
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Kristina Kékesi-Lafrance
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Phenopackets v2.0 expands utility to provide a more complete medical picture
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Data Connect: a come-as-you-are approach to data sharing
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Soichi Ogishima
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The Engagement Framework: building inclusive engagement practices in genomics
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Policy Brief: processing the data of the deceased for scientific research purposes — looking beyond the GDPR?
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Lindsay Smith
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Second issue of Cell Genomics features GA4GH
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Mélanie Courtot
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Genomics in Health Implementation Forum (GHIF) biannual working meeting: advancing human health through the implementation of GA4GH standards
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Fireside chat with Peter Goodhand and Catalina Lopez-Correa
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Policy Brief: navigating international data transfers under GDPR — impediments facing US federal science agencies and research universities
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Maili Raven-Adams
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Two NHGRI Genomic Innovator Awards support coordinated development of genomic knowledge standards
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GA4GH announces open call for nominations to lead activities around data security and federated analysis
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GA4GH 9th Plenary meeting announces Harold Varmus and Alan Christoffels as keynote speakers
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Zornitza Stark
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GA4GH receives funding from CIHR to advance data sharing tools in the fight against COVID-19
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Alice Mann
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Policy Brief: the role of the European Data Protection Board in interpreting the GDPR
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GA4GH standards in a global learning health system
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Elizabeth Janes
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GA4GH launches new GA4GH 101 webinar series
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Policy Brief: familial genomic data and the GDPR
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GA4GH Community Spotlight: Neerjah Skantharajah
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Policy Brief: finding a route out of the impasse? Ordering the secondary processing of already gathered data in a code of conduct
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Standardised variation exchange webinar: using VRS to share genetic variant data in modern systems
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DUO workshop: translating consent forms and data sharing policies into DUO
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GA4GH shares seven open-source projects as part of Google Summer of Code 2021
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Familial Consent Clauses approved as part of the GA4GH Consent Toolkit
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Pedigree Connectathon: testing interoperability across the research-healthcare continuum
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GA4GH TES API: bringing compatibility to task execution across HPC systems, the cloud and beyond
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GA4GH names Dr Susan Fairley as Chief Standards Officer
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Policy Brief: the public interest and the GDPR
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Policy Brief: international “onward” transfers of genomic data under the EU Standard Contractual Clauses
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GA4GH announces incorporation as a not-for-profit organisation
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Policy Brief: the concept of personal data in the GDPR
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High-depth African genomes inform human migration and health
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TES and Search APIs now open for public comment
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Policy Brief: joint data controllership in the genomics context
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GA4GH 2020 Connection Demos highlight the value of interoperability in genomics
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GA4GH releases three new deliverables to support responsible genomic data sharing
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Future of genomic research at risk without greater public trust in how genetic data is shared, survey finds
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GA4GH 8th Plenary meeting to be free, open, and entirely virtual
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Policy Brief: transferring genomic and health-related data following Schrems II
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GEM Japan releases largest-ever open-access Japanese variant frequency panel
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Policy Brief: storage limitations for genomic and health-related personal data
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Policy Brief: understanding the extraterritorial effect of the GDPR for genomic and health-related research
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GA4GH joins international alliance to enable secure and collaborative COVID-19 data research at scale
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Webinar recap: implementing GA4GH Passports and AAI — a technical deep dive (part 2)
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Webinar recap: GA4GH Passports — benefits of integrating a global electronic ID for accessing biomedical data (part 1)
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Policy Brief: the interplay between the Clinical Trials Regulation and the GDPR
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GA4GH Passports webinar series
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Policy Brief: the Finnish Secondary Use Act 2019 (May 2020 bonus brief)
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Policy Brief: are university-employed scientific researchers "Data Controllers" for the purposes of the GDPR?
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Regulatory and ethics perspective on COVID-19 data sharing
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Breaking down the data silos to create a “data translator” for enhanced cancer care
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Policy Brief: what records of processing does the GDPR require health sector organisations to maintain?
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Policy Brief: standard contractual clauses for transferring genomic and health data (March 2020 bonus brief)
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Policy Brief: cloud computing
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New standards Service Info and Service Registry advance service discovery
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Policy Brief: standard contractual clauses — opinion of the Advocate General in Schrems II
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GA4GH names new Work Stream leads
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Policy Brief: “at least one” legal basis for processing under the GDPR — clarifying Article 6(1)
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DRS API: enabling cloud-based data access and retrieval
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GA4GH Passports and the Authorization & Authentication Infrastructure
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Genomics England implements GA4GH API to provide secure access to genomic data for the NHS
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Policy Brief: is "consent for genomic and health-related research" specific enough to constitute a valid consent under the GDPR?
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Policy Brief: withdrawing consent to data processing under the GDPR
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EJP RD promotes global data sharing to bring hope to rare disease patients
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Announcing five new standards at GA4GH 7th Plenary meeting
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Crypt4GH: a secure method for sharing human genetic data
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Data Security Infrastructure Policy: updated guidelines for implementing widespread security policies
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Phenopackets: standardising and exchanging patient phenotypic data
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Tool Registry Service API: enabling an interoperable library of genomics analysis tools
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Variation Representation: a standard way of exchanging genetic variation data with precision and consistency
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Webinar recap: automating access to human genomics datasets — the GA4GH Data Use Ontology in action
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Policy Brief: Japan obtains the first adequacy agreement under the GDPR
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Guest post: seven myths about CRAM — the community standard for genomic data compression
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Your DNA, Your Say publishes study on trust in english-speaking populations
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Revised GA4GH regulatory and ethics policies emphasize transparency and proportionate safeguards
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Webinar: automating access to human genomics datasets using the GA4GH Data Use Ontology
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Policy Brief: the Data Protection Impact Assessment and genomic health research
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Policy Brief: codes of conduct under the GDPR — a useful but challenging tool to enable responsible international data sharing
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Policy Brief: are pseudonymised data within the GPDR's scope?
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Guest post: research and clinical genomics are converging
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Policy Brief: how is Article 89 implemented across the EU/EEA?
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Policy Brief: how can researchers approach international data transfers under the GDPR?
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ELIXIR and GA4GH expand collaboration
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David Bernick and Jean-Pierre Hubaux take on leadership of GA4GH Data Security Work Stream
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#CRAM4GH Twitter chat: recap
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New Driver Project aims to expand data sharing to accelerate autism research
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Policy Brief: when can I rely on broad consent for research?
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CRAM: the genomics compression standard
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Extensions to the GA4GH Beacon API will enable a more powerful community resource
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Policy Brief: what is the difference between research ethics consent and data protection consent?
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Data Use Ontology approved as a GA4GH technical standard
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New GA4GH Driver Projects in 2019
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Policy Brief: what information can research participants demand under the GDPR?
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Transcontinental health data sharing project pilots GA4GH suite
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Now open for comment: GA4GH Data Use Ontology
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GA4GH helps develop BRCA Exchange to inform understanding of cancer risk by aggregating data on thousands of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants
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Policy Brief: automated decision-making and profiling
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GA4GH publishes review of national genomic data initiatives
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GA4GH 2019 leadership transitions
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Policy Brief: what specific protections apply to health-related, genetic, or biometric data?
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GA4GH <em>Framework</em> now available in Korean — call for more translations!
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Guest post: putting the "global" in the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
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Comparative analysis reveals a diverse international regulatory landscape for genetic data
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GA4GH releases refget API for accessing genomic reference sequence data
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Policy Brief: to whom does the GDPR apply?
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GA4GH WES API enables portable genomic analysis
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GA4GH and ELIXIR release Beacon API v1.0 with increased security measures
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GA4GH 6th Plenary meeting report now available
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<i>Human Mutation</i> special issue features ClinGen, a GA4GH Driver Project
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Policy Brief: can genomic data be anonymised?
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GA4GH announces open call for new Driver Projects
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GA4GH announces new interoperability standards for genomic data sharing
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A harmonised resource for clinical interpretations of cancer mutations
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Introducing the GA4GH GDPR & International Health Data Sharing Forum
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Policy Brief: ten ways the GDPR impacts international health-related data sharing
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Your DNA, Your Say: the “why” and the “how”
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A new access tier for genomic and health-related data
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Maintaining public trust in use of big data for health science
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Guest post: responsible data sharing in an increasingly open era
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htsget, GA4GH’s streaming API, is a bridge to the future for modern genomic data processing
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H3Africa research framework builds on work of GA4GH
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NIH <em>All of Us</em> programme to implement GA4GH data sharing standards
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Ethics of genomic data sharing: an interview with Bartha Maria Knoppers
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Guest post: a message from the GA4GH Chair (April 2018)
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A brief tribute to Sir John Sulston, champion of open science
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Interview with David Altshuler: a GA4GH retrospective
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Guest post: when a newsletter is more than a newsletter
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Canadian Genomics Cloud to develop GA4GH-compliant precision medicine platform
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GA4GH releases 2018 Strategic Roadmap
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A data biosphere for biomedical research
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GA4GH strikes formal collaborations with 15 international genomic data initiatives
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Data sharing brings hope to rare disease patients around the globe
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GA4GH membership reaches 500 organisations
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Francis Collins and Harold Varmus to speak at GA4GH 5th Plenary meeting
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GA4GH in 2022
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Share the data to save lives: a global cure for a global disease
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New strategies for securing Beacon datasets
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Video: BRCA Exchange now contains more than 17,900 variants
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GA4GH and others call for an international coalition of data resources
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Greater than the sum of its parts: how Matchmaker Exchange is being used to solve today's hardest rare disease cases
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GA4GH at AAAS 2017
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Beacon goes global
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Ethics Review Recognition Policy makes sharing international research data easier
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Policy recommendations for sharing data in the US Cancer Moonshot project
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Public variant databases: data share with care
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ELIXIR and GA4GH Beacon team up to advance genomic data sharing
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Genomic data sharing on the silver screen
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Five challenges to open science around the globe
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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health unveils new genomics API allowing for seamless sharing of genetic data
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Ewan Birney to lead Global Alliance
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Welcome to the GA4GH news site
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GA4GH presents vision, model for genomic and clinical data sharing
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Closing the evidence gap on public attitudes toward genetic data handling
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Big data saves lives, say cancer experts
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BRCA Exchange aggregates publicly accessible BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants
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GA4GH to explore engagement opportunities for global data sharing at ICHG 2016 annual meeting
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Developing ethics review mutual recognition for data-intensive international research
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New pan-Canadian program to accelerate data sharing objectives of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
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Beacon Project mitigates privacy risks while maximizing value of responsible data sharing
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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health marks two years of progress
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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health members meet to advance genomic data sharing
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Global Genes™ honours work of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
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