Dear GHGA-PIs, dear members of the GHGA Operations Committee, As described by Oliver and Oli, last week the proposal for the next funding phase of GHGA was successfully submitted to the DFG. Attached please find the submitted version of the proposal including the submitted annexes. As described below, please keep this copy confidential. Further details on the next steps of the review can be found here on our GHGA Wiki: https://wiki.verbis.dkfz.de/x/f4NFE Thanks to everyone who contributed to the work of GHGA and the proposal writing. Best, Jan -- Dr. Jan Eufinger Administrative Coordinator GHGA – German Human Genome-Phenome Archive www.ghga.de<http://www.ghga.de> German Cancer Research Center / Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ) Foundation under Public Law / Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts Im Neuenheimer Feld 280 | Germany Phone: +49 6221 42 3466 Email: j.eufinger@dkfz-heidelberg.de<mailto:j.eufinger@dkfz-heidelberg.de> Management Board / Vorstand: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Michael Baumann, Ursula Weyrich USt-ID: DE143293537 Confidentiality Note: This message is intended only for the use of the named recipient(s) and may obtain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete the message. Any unauthorized use of the information contained in this message is prohibited. Von: Oliver Stegle <o.stegle(a)dkfz-heidelberg.de&gt; Datum: Dienstag, 6. August 2024 um 20:26 An: GHGA-All Mailing-List <ghga-all(a)lists.nfdi.de&gt; Cc: Oliver Kohlbacher <oliver.kohlbacher(a)uni-tuebingen.de&gt; Betreff: [GHGA-All] GHGA - Yay - we did it! WE DID IT! GHGA Archive is live and in production - and the GHGA follow-up proposal has been submitted to DFG! We would like to thank the whole team that has been working tirelessly around the clock to meet our deadline. This has been a true team effort and we do appreciate the hard work, dedication, and sweat that went into this - well done, all! GHGA Archive in production Right on time to support our follow-up proposal for GHGA, we have managed to launch production of GHGA Archive on August 1st. The launch of Archive is the second major phase of GHGA, extending the functionality beyond the management of the metadata, but actually the genomics data itself. As it goes with a complex project like this, the last few months have been very hectic as our well-laid plans met reality. Not surprisingly, not everything worked out as planned and in particular the last few weeks have been filled with unexpected and sometimes challenging experiences and setbacks - thank you all for your creativity, flexibility, persistence and the constructive manner in which you took the ever increasing pressure from ‘the two Olis’! Currently, GHGA Archive is operational with one data hub (Heidelberg) and with a few thousand genomes online, but this will quickly expand as we integrate the other data hubs one by one and start loading additional data sets. We are also aware of numerous limitations of the current release, so while we encourage everyone to go there, look at the portal (data.ghga.de<http://data.ghga.de/>) and enjoy, we would prefer if you could hold back with detailed feedback, error reports and feature requests until September. Once the team has caught up with sleep and everyone is back from vacation, we will send around further information on a structured testing and feedback process. GHGA 2 Proposal submitted Earlier today we also submitted the follow-up proposal for the years 2025 - 2030 to DFG. Again, thanks to the team working on this for the massive effort and thanks to everyone for their contributions and the many fruitful discussions we had - it greatly improved the final proposal. It was an intense and interesting process, revisiting what we had planned five years ago, and exciting to plan for the next few years. The next steps are now the defense of the proposal onOctober 29th and a hopefully positive response in the first month of 2025. We will of course keep you in the loop on our progress. While we will distribute the full proposal to all PIs named in the proposal, we would very much appreciate it if you could keep the text of the proposal confidential while it is under review. As last time, we plan to release a trimmed down version with budget information removed in due course. We would like to thank you all for your contributions to making GHGA a success, wish you all relaxing summer holidays and are looking forward to seeing you all in person at our GHGA Annual Meeting onOctober 15-16 in Heidelberg! If you have not done so, please sign up here: https://indico.dkfz.de/e/ghga2024 Meanwhile, have a great summer, O & O