🌐 Join the next GA4GH Beacon Implementers Forum meeting on Wednesday, 26 November at 14:00 UTC. Learn more and register for the invite:

📣 New blog post alert! This year, over 400 publications have cited data stored at the EGA, either for deposit or reuse. As a result, we are usually in contact with hundreds of users, but the truth is that we don't know as much about you as we would like!

Data reuse can boost the potential of any dataset, even during summer 😎☀️! From time to time, we highlight some of the latest papers featuring deposited data at the EGA or reused data from the Archive 👀 Check out our latest compilation 🧵↘️

💡Did you know? The EGA stores 15+ PB of biomedical data from 20+ countries, spanning studies on cancer, neurodegeneration, and more. As of 2025, over 400 publications have cited its 12,000 datasets for research and reuse. 🔔 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐮𝐦! #EASIGEN #CRG #HorizonEU

🔬 CRG co-hosts the @egaarchive.bsky.social with EMBL-EBI, supporting secure storage and sharing of sensitive biomedical data. CRG team has expertise in different areas: 🔹Genomic data management 🔹Bioinformatics infrastructure and tools 🔹ELSI 🔹Collaborative research and innovation

📢 Meet the partners of the #EASIGEN-DS Consortium! 📍 @crg.eu is a biomedical research hub driving innovation in life sciences. Based at the PRBB, they specialise in genomics, systems biology, and computational biology. In #EASIGEN-DS, they serve as the expert node for data and data management

Excellent news, and shows the progress - and flexibility - of FEGA in providing a mechanism for federated discovery and access of controlled access human genomic data, consistent with national legislation and ethics.

We are celebrating the joining of Switzerland to #FederatedEGA as a national node, after the signature of the Collaboration Agreement with the @sib.swiss! More information ↘️ www.sib.swiss/news/switzer...

🎉🧬🇨🇭 Researchers in Switzerland can soon deposit human genomics data in a secure national archive, and control access to researchers around the world, with Swiss FEGA joining the international FEGA network 👇 Swiss FEGA is consortium of six institutions, including at @ethz.ch, coordinated by SIB.

📆 Register your interest to join #BioHackEU25 in person before 15 July! All expressions of interest will be reviewed, and accepted attendees will be notified by the end of July. More information: https://loom.ly/UfwZREk

📢 Has the EGA saved you time or effort in your research? Fill in our survey and help @ebi.embl.org demonstrate why open data resources are critical for life science research! 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/QGFMBH8

📣 ELIXIR has awarded €124,000 in infrastructure service funding to support the Beacon network. The funding will support 💪 operational activities at ELIXIR Spain, ELIXIR Switzerland & ELIXIR Finland. @ga4gh.org Read the news: https://loom.ly/HZeATDA

📢 Data reuse can amplify the potential of any dataset! Occasionally, we highlight some of the latest papers featuring deposited data at the EGA or reused data from the Archive Here is our latest compilation 🧵↘️

📆 Register your interest to join #BioHackEU25 in person! All expressions of interest will be reviewed, and accepted attendees will be notified by the end of July. More information: https://loom.ly/UfwZREk

Join the inaugural meeting of the GA4GH Beacon Implementers Forum on Wednesday, 23 July at 9:00 PDT / 10:00 EDT / 15:00 BST. Learn more and register for the invite:

The CANDLE project officially kicked off 🚀! This week, we attended the kick-off meeting of CANDLE, the EU-funded project aimed at preparing the establishment of a cancer research infrastructure across Europe through the collaboration of 40 partners from 20 European countries

✨ Read the highlights of the 11th annual gathering of the ELIXIR community. Hosted by ELIXIR Greece 🇬🇷 in Thessaloniki, #ELIXIR25 brought together over 400 attendees from ELIXIR Nodes and international guests. 👉 https://elixir-europe.org/news/elixir-community-meets-thessaloniki-all-hands-2025

🎊 2025 ELIXIR All Hands Meeting #ELIXIR25 has come to an end! 👏 Thank you all for joining us in Thessaloniki 🇬🇷 and we look forward to seeing you again next year in Lyon, France 🇫🇷 for #ELIXIR26! @ifb-elixir-fr.bsky.social

🌟 A little recap from yesterday's #ELIXIR25: Participants have a morning of fruitful discussion in workshops covering topics from #AI and #KnowledgeGraphs, #ResearchDataManagement resources 💾 to #Galaxy and #biodiversity and #FederatedEGA 🧬 and more! (🧵2/3)

🧬 Today at the 2025 ELIXIR All Hands in Thessaloniki, Jorge Oliveira (BioData.pt) led a live demo on submitting data to the Portuguese FEGA node. This was part of a FEGA workshop on enabling secure, FAIR access to human omics data across 9 national nodes. #ELIXIR25

📍 Don't miss the poster sessions during the #ELIXIR25 All Hands Meeting! ➡️ Find us at poster 84 to learn more about Global Beacon Atlas, the single entry point to federated data discovery globally @elixir-europe.org

Our workshop at #ELIXIR25 today was a great success 🚀! The session "Connecting the FEGA Network: Insights and Demonstrations from National Nodes" gathered participants from all over Europe and the world sharing experiences and technical insides regarding the working systems of the #FederatedEGA

The ELIXIR All Hands Meeting starts today 🚀! We are thrilled to be in Thessaloniki with several team members participating in workshops, talks, and poster sessions! See you around 👋

📢 Today is #WorldMSDay, an opportunity to raise awareness about #MultipleSclerosis and support projects that contribute to new research and clinical advancements in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of multiple sclerosis

The GA4GH Implementation Forum (GIF) held its second "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) programme on the Phenopackets standard. Watch the event recording: youtu.be/etcWlrKGeZA View the resource document: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Pint of Science starts today, proving once again this edition that science belongs everywhere 🚀! 💡 Aurora Moreno, bioinformatician at the EGA - @crg.eu, will be participating this evening with a talk about the DATOS.CAT project and its use of the Beacon data discovery tool 👉 @pintofscience.es

📢 New paper out in @gigascience.bsky.social! 📄 New implementation of data standards for #AI in oncology: the experience from the EuCanImage project 🔗 academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

Releasing crosslinks datasets from @pride-ebi.bsky.social to other #omics archives—a big step for #multiomics integration and making proteomics data more #FAIR. You can now find links from PRIDE to @egaarchive.bsky.social, #GEO, & #BioStudies via #identifiers.org & with the help of @europepmc.org

➡️ Today marks #WorldOvarianCancerDay #OvarianCancer involves the uncontrolled growth and division of cells not only of the ovaries but also of the fallopian tube and peritoneum cells. For more info, check @cancerresearchuk.org insights into the subject: www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer...

🚀Exciting news: Our website is LIVE! ✨ Check ➡️ easigen.eu and discover how the EASIGEN-DS project aims to design EASIGEN, a new innovative infrastructure to make genomic technologies accessible to all 🧬🌐 #EASIGEN #Genomics #ResearchInfrastructures #HorizonEU

👀 #DidYouKnow that there is a 5-year Horizon Europe-funded project aimed at uncovering the role of the Epstein-Barr virus in the onset and progression of #MultipleSclerosis? 👉 Check out this report about EBV-MS, recently shared in #PRBBEllipse (@prbb.org): ellipse.prbb.org/ebv-ms-unvei...

🦠 @egaarchive.bsky.social @crg.eu MELIS - @upf.edu @researchmar.bsky.social participan en un proyecto europeo para entender por qué solo un 0,3 % de infectados por el virus Epstein-Barr desarrollan #EsclerosisMúltiple, y el mecanismo subyacente del proceso. Más información 👇

🦠 La infecció del virus Epstein-Barr és necessària per desenvolupar #EsclerosiMúltiple, però només un 0,3% dels infectats la desenvolupen. @egaarchive.bsky.social @crg.eu MELIS - @upf.edu @researchmar.bsky.social participen en un projecte europeu per entendre per què. Més ℹ️👇

📣 The ELIXIR #ResearchDataManagement Community has published a guide to the most common user journeys 👣 in the ELIXIR research data management ecosystem. The user journeys are also available on the RDM guidelines page of the 🖥️ ELIXIR website. Read the news 👉

🦠Although infection by the #EpsteinBarrVirus is necessary to develop #MultipleSclerosis, only 0.3% of those infected develop it. A new European project with the participation of 3 PRBB centres aims to understand why and the underlying mechanism. More 👇 ellipse.prbb.org/ebv-ms-unvei...

The report from the @ga4gh.org April Connect 2025 Meeting is available! At the EGA, we are pleased to have participated in another edition of the April Connect meetings, where our Beacon team was part of several sessions🔎🧬 Find all the Beacon-related info in the report: www.ga4gh.org/document/ga4...

🏃 Last push for #BioHackEU25 project proposals! Don’t miss the great chance to work with 🙌 other #bioinformaticians. We welcomed project proposals 💡 focus on areas that support the work of ELIXIR, such as #FAIRdata, #metadata standards, #ontologies and more. 🔗 Submit by next Monday:

📢 Today, April 7, we celebrate #World Health Day! Let’s take this opportunity to highlight the power and impact of #genomics in improving global health! 🌍

A week left to prepare for the project proposal for the #BioHackEU25. 🧑‍💻 Join hundreds of willing #bioinformaticians 🧬 Huge range of expertise in #bioinformatics 🌥 Work on blue sky ideas or advanced existing projects 🔗Submission deadline 14 April: loom.ly/5gopDeQ

Also read this: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From #BCCancer Research | #Canada joins Federated EGA, establishing a significant global repository for secure sharing of human genomic and health data | #Genomics #Bioinformatics | #OpenScience @bccancergsc.bsky.social @egaarchive.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 ⬇️ www.bccrc.ca/articles/can...

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...

Today kicks off the #GA4GHConnect2025 meeting in Boston! Connect gathers the GA4GH community and close collaborators to advance standards development and responsible genomic and health data use. Virtual participation is available all week: broadinstitute.swoogo.com/connect25bos/

📣 BioHackathon Europe 2025 Call for project proposals is now open! Submit your #bioinformatics project 🧑‍💻 for #BioHackEU25 by 14 April: biohackathon-europe.org 🙌 We welcome proposals that focus on areas supporting the work of ELIXIR, such as #FAIRdata, #metadata standards, #ontologies and more.

🧬 Today’s #ELIXIRFridayReads is the latest paper focusing on Federated European Genome-Phenome Archive (#FederatedEGA) and its complexities, challenges and achievements. Read the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... @egaarchive.bsky.social

It’s #BrainAwarenessWeek, a global campaign to raise awareness of #BrainResearch 🔎🧠! This week, we want to highlight Wisdom and EBV-MS, two amazing projects in which we proudly participate 🙌

📣 The European Genomic Data Infrastructure project coordinated by ELIXIR released three videos about the #1MGenomes Initiative. 🤔 The videos explain "What is the 1+MG Initiative?" & "How will the Initiative benefit citizens and healthcare providers?" #genomicdata #datasharing

📣 Beyond One Million Genomes Plus kicks off today! We are in Bucharest attending the kick-off meeting of #B1MGplus project, that will support the creation of a European cross-border network of genomic & clinical data to enhance healthcare outcomes 🔗 b1mgplus.onemilliongenomes.eu/news/b1mgplu...

📣 Today marks the kick-off meeting of the new ELIXIR-coordinated @ec.europa.eu project B1MGplus! The project will support the 🙌 1+MG Initiative and the European cross-border network of 🧬 #genomic and clinical data. Read the news: b1mgplus.onemilliongenomes.eu/news/b1mgplu... #DigitalEU #1MGenomes

Arcadi Navarro, Director of the EGA at the @crg.eu team, is now part of the Board of Directors of the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (#GA4GH)! As a GA4GH Driver Project, it is an honour to be represented in the leadership team of the Global Alliance 🚀 👉 www.ga4gh.org/news_item/ga...