The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. It brings together over 400 leading genome institutes and centers with IT industry leaders to create global standards and tools for the secure, privacy respecting and interoperable sharing of Genomic data.
Contributors in 2026
4
Not in 2025
Projects since 2016
49
4.9 a cycle on average
Cycles
10 of 11
First in 2016
Rank in 2026
#91
of 183, 0.4% of slots
Mentors
5
for 5 projects in 2024
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
| Global Alliance for Genomics and Health | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2 | 4 |
| 2018 | 4 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 | 4 |
| 2020 | 4 | 4 |
| 2021 | 7 | 4 |
| 2022 | 8 | 3 |
| 2023 | 7 | 4 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
Each one has its own page of organizations and trends
Technologies
# Topics
4 projects in 2026 · All 49 projects since 2016
Gopi Kishan
The GA4GH Service Info API is a required component across standards such as TES, WES, and TRS, providing essential metadata about a service....
Revaa Rathore
Thousands of bioinformatics workflows registered on public platforms like Dockstore and WorkflowHub cannot run on modern cloud platforms. Not because...
Ruiyang Chen
Genomic data sharing is slowed by manually cross-checking consent and data-use language against dense GA4GH and related policy text, while generic...
Vidit Khandelwal
This proposal addresses the deployment gap in federated learning for genomics, where frameworks like FLAN enable distributed model training but lack...
Karanjot786Mentored by Salihu
The goal of this proposal is to address the issue of how difficult it can be to package and reuse computational workflows and analyses in genomics...
Athitheya GobinathanMentored by Joris Vankerschaver
Crypt4GH is a file format developed by GA4GH that keeps genomic data encrypted at rest and in transit. Currently, implementations of the TES API do...
aaravmMentored by Pavel Nikonorov
This proposal aims to create a client library in rust and command line interface (CLI) for interacting with GA4GH environments in python. It will be...
Pratiksha SankheMentored by Anurag Gupta
The project's objective is to create adaptable web components utilizing UI frameworks like LitElement. These components will adhere to the Data...
Javed HabibMentored by Alvaro Gonzalez
This project endeavors to revamp the Kubernetes batch execution service to adhere to the Task Execution Service (TES) standards established by the...
ArraxMentored by Rohan Gupta, Bob Dolin, Srikar Chamala +1
The Proposal is how to make updates in the reference implementation based on the harmonization work, the creation of the new FHIR profile, and the...
Assel AbzalovaMentored by Salihu, Anurag Gupta, Alex Kanitz +3
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) defines the Tool Registry Service (TRS) specification for the discovering and accessing research...
Haroune HassineMentored by TImothe Cezard, April Shen
This project aims at implementing the Sequence Collection specification designed by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). The main...
Javed HabibMentored by Salihu, Anurag Gupta, Alex Kanitz +3
The objective of this project is to create adaptable web components using UI frameworks like Microsoft's Fast. This will involve expanding the...
Justin AronsonMentored by Bob Dolin, Srikar Chamala
Variant filtration is key to rare disease discovery. For a rare disease discovery app to be successful, it must be able to cleanly represent the...
Lakshya GargMentored by Alex Kanitz, Liam Beckman, Venkat Malladi +3
An interoperable automated framework for compliance testing has been developed, equipped with the capability to execute customizable test files. The...
Samriddhi SinghMentored by Alan Rubin, Alex H. Wagner, PhD
The aim of this project is to make it easier to use MaveDB datasets for clinical use, as most of the MaveDB datasets are not annotated in a way that...
Shubhrajyoti DeyMentored by Tim Jackson
This proposal aims on solving a problem to create user customisable forms on pedigree data of patients and storing it as per the GA4GH Standards to...
Lakshya GargMentored by Alvaro Gonzalez, Ania Niewielska, Alex Kanitz
Task Execution Service (TES) is a Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standard that allows federating and distributing computing tasks...
Sindhu KandepuMentored by Tim Jackson
To identify possible relations between gene variants, phenotypes, and diseases - an ideal way would be a multi-model approach that involves: •...
Gabriel SimonettoMentored by mmilton, Marko Malenic, brainstorm
The field of bioinformatics has used many different extensions to express genomics data throughout its history, most of them focusing on simplicity...
Justin AronsonMentored by Bob Dolin, Srikar Chamala
Molecular consequences of genetic variants determine their impact. For example, the variant NM_001330311.2(DVL1):c.1594del is a frameshift variant...
Suyash GuptaMentored by Thanasis Vergoulis, Alvaro Gonzalez, Ania Niewielska +1
The goal of this project is to implement a callback mechanism for task status updates in TES, which will send requests from the server to the client...
Ayush KumarMentored by Thanasis Vergoulis, Alvaro Gonzalez, Anurag Gupta +1
The Task Execution Service (TES) API and the Workflow Execution Service (WES) are two of the several standards defined by the Global Alliance for...
Rohan GuptaMentored by Bret Heale, Bob Dolin, Shailesh Gothi +1
This project aims to demonstrate sharing of annotated genomic variants between clinicians and knowledge bases using a clinical decision support (CDS)...
Akash SainiMentored by Alexander Kanitz, Sarthak Gupta, Alvaro Gonzalez Alvarez +3
The solution will act as a BROKER that manages subscriptions for update notifications for each deployment subscribed by system administrators System...
Marko MalenicMentored by Michael Macias, Christian Pérez Llamas, Victor San Kho Lin +1
The aim of this proposal is to build a pure Rust serverless implementation of htsget - a client/server protocol for reliably and securely sending...
Kamil AlbrychtMentored by Andrew Grant, Tim Jackson
Scope Project scope is to develop a React.js library of pedigree components that will meet the GA4GH standards. Library will be build of accessible...
Vipul ChhabraMentored by Kyle Ellrott, Alexander Kanitz
To increase the interoperability of the Galaxy Platform with GA4GH Cloud-compliant solutions, the goal of this project is to add support for the TES...
Anurag GuptaMentored by Alexander Kanitz, Krish Agarwal, Sarthak Gupta +1
This project is based on the idea of the simplest form of micro-frontends that we can provide our users with our services like Cloud Registry, TRS,...
Daniel del CastilloMentored by Roman Valls Guimera
The goal of this proposal would be to implement the htsget protocol in pure Rust using the noodles crate. It also has the objective of making a...
Rohan GuptaMentored by Bob Dolin, Shailesh Gothi, Srikar Chamala
vcf2fhir is a utility to convert VCF files into HL7 FHIR format for genomics-EHR integration. The utility currently converts simple variants (SNVs,...
Giorgos ApostolopoulosMentored by Timothe Cezard, Kirill Tsukanov
Mapping free text trait names to ontologies so that they can be processed is an important task that is not yet standardized. The goal of this project...
Hashan PereraMentored by Dipayan Gupta, Mélanie Courtot, Isuru Liyanage
JSON Schema is a vocabulary to specify the structure of a JSON document. JSON Schema is widely used and well supported and sees a growing use for...
Sarthak GuptaMentored by aniewielska, Shubham Kapoor, Marius Dieckmann +2
Storing, sharing and accessing the vast volumes of data being generated in modern research and healthcare settings is extremely daunting. With the...
Tanmay SingalMentored by Andres Silva, Jose Miguel Mut Lopez
Reference sequences are files that are used as a reference to describe variants that are present in analyzed sequences and play a central role in...
Vani SinghMentored by akanitz
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health aims to provide end-to-end solutions for clinical data use cases. The sensitive nature of data in the...
Rohan KMentored by Sundar Venkataraman, Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez
The main goal of this project is to implement a mechanism to be in sync with the latest human data submitted to dbSNP. Once imported, this...
Dilshat SalikhovMentored by Jorge Izquierdo Ciges
The Data Repository Service (DRS) API provides a generic interface to data repositories so data consumers, including workflow systems, can access...
JUNAID N ZMentored by Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez, Andres Felipe Silva
The Beacon specification allows to query whether a genomic variation is present in a repository. But the current implementation is based on an...
Rishi KaushikMentored by Andrew Yates-1
The aim of this project is to build a compliance framework, to ensure that all new implementations/products/APIs adhere to the central specification...
Dilshat SalikhovMentored by Luca Cherubin, Melanie Courtot
BioSamples is the EMBL-EBI central hub for metadata about samples whose raw data is hosted in reference archives such as EGA, ENA and EVA. The goal...
Somesh ChaturvediMentored by Matthew Laird, Andrew Yates-1
This proposal consists of the development of a compliance test suite for Reference API servers with validation and checks for URLs, status codes,...
Sarbjit SinghMentored by Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez, Jose Miguel Mut Lopez
vcf-validator is a suite of command-line tools that can validate and fix VCF files. The goal of my project is to overcome the limitations of the...
Eric KeiltyMentored by Miro Cupak, mfiume
Data Object Service (DOS) is an emerging standard for specifying location of data across different cloud environments. The goal of DOS is to create a...
Anishka GuptaMentored by Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez, Jose Miguel Mut Lopez
The VCF (Variant Call Format) is a format for text files, which is generally stored in a compressed manner to make the data retrieval of variants...
Amila SilvaMentored by Cristina Yenyxe Gonzalez, Pablo Arce Garcia
“Htsget retrieval API spec” [1] is a specification by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) for genomics bulk data transfers. This is a...
Beth2Mentored by Gil
I am submitting a proposal for integrating SMART/FHIR and GA4GH
VoskoboynickMentored by miro, mfiume
Main tasks include the following: the Beacon project and Beacon Networks project need a Java client to be implemented. The configurable clients...
patmageeMentored by miro, mfiume
With beacons being lit and the specification readily being adopted by organizations all over the world, there is a need for a toolkit which...
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