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GHGA Retreat – Day 1 at Kloster Schöntal kicked off with exciting discussions on a wide range of topics! From data portals to international connectivity (#FEGA, #ELIXIR, #EOSC), legal challenges, patient communication, and training plans, GHGA 2 is taking shape across all fronts. Perspectives from data producers and data hubs, along with workflow use cases, rounded off a fantastic first session. #GHGA #GHGAretreat #Genomics #OpenScience #Collaboration

More on #genomics, this is obviously crazy since the #world's #genetic #diversity is contained within #Africa. Yet African DNA is underrepresented! Oh dear, it should not be only African scientists noticing this.

'African scientists say the world is missing vital medical insights by ignoring the continent’s vast genetic diversity. Less than 2 percent of human genome sequencing worldwide comes from African populations.'

rfi.fr/en/africa/20250404-scie

RFI · Scientists warn African DNA is missing from the global genome mapBy RFI

#Genetic data site #openSNP to close and delete data over #privacy concerns
openSNP, a platform for sharing genetic and phenotypic data, will shut down, and delete all user submissions over privacy concerns and risk of misuse by authoritarian governments.
Announced earlier this week by co-founder Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, who expressed concerns about how personal #genomics data is subject to abuse today and how fundamentally landscape has changed over the last 14 years.
bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Another ‘scandal - but the wrong one! The real one is that Irish public money founded the acquisition of genetic information and then its transfer to the US - where as has become obvious, a group of pirates who could not give a shit about people are ‘managing’ privacy and the judiciary.

archive.today/2025.03.30-01235

Correction - added link to news archive

🧬 This study explores how nanopore sequencing transforms biochemical molecules into human-readable signals—revolutionizing how we decode protozoan genomes.

🔗 Nanopore sequencing of protozoa: Decoding biological information on a string of biochemical molecules into human-readable signals. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.01

📚 CSBJ: csbj.org/