Poster Sessions

Poster sessions at the GA4GH 11th Plenary will be held inside the Peacock Court.

  • Thursday September 21 at 11:00 - 11:30 am (PDT)
  • Friday September 22 at 11:00 - 11:30 am (PDT)

Posters at the meeting will showcase the work of GA4GH and other related activities that will enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and health-related data to the broader genomics and health community.

If you have any questions regarding the poster sessions, please contact Amreen Mohamed

 

Poster Title

Author(s)

 

1

Enhancing Data Security in GA4GH API Implementations with Crypt4GH

Authors: Alexander Senf [1], Boris Guennewig [2], Alexander Kanitz [3], Joris Vankerschaver [4]

Author Affiliations: [1] Pacific Analytics, [2] University of Sydney, [3] Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics [4] Ghent University Global Campus

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2

Enhancing Data Security in GA4GH Task Execution Services with Confidential Computing

Authors: Pavel Nikonorov [1], Ruslan Vakhitov [1], Alexander Senf [2], Boris Guennewig [3]  

Author Affliations: [1] GENXT; [2] Pacific Analytics; [3] University of Sydney

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3

Reproducible workflows with RNNR

Authors: Welliton de Souza [1], Iscia Lopes-Cendes [2], Benilton S Carvalho [3]

Author Affliations: [1] Brazilian Initiative for Precision Medicine, The Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology; [2] University of Campinas (UNICAMP)

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4

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Regulatory and Ethics Work Stream (REWS)

Authors: Beatrice Kaiser [1], Diya Uberoi [1],  Yann Joly [1] and Dianne Nicol [2]

Author Affliations: [1] GA4GH, Centre of Genomics and Policy, McGill University, Canada; [2] Centre for Law and Genetics, University of Tasmania, Australia

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5

Integrating GA4GH standards for the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive

 Authors: Mallory Ann Freeberg [1], Thomas Keane [1], Jordi Rambla [2], FEGA Strategic Committee, FEGA Operations Committee

Affiliations: [1] EMBL-EBI; [2] CRG

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6

The ELIXIR Cloud: Leveraging GA4GH Standards for Federated Data Analytics

Author: Alexander Kanitz [1, 2], Justin Clark-Casey [3], Michael Crusoe [4, 5], Álvaro González Álvarez [6, 7], Thanasis Vergoulis [8, 9], Gavin Farrell [10], Jonathan Tedds [10] and the ELIXIR Cloud & AAI community

Author Affliation: [1] Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, [2] ELIXIR Switzerland, [3] EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK, [4] Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, [5] ELIXIR Germany, [6] CSC, Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, [7] ELIXIR Finland, [8] Athena” Research Center, Athens, [9] ELIXIR Greece, [10] ELIXIR Hub, Hinxton, UK. 

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7

A Datalake on CAVATICA – powered by interoperability standards

Authors: Michele Mattioni [1], Surya Saha [1], Jared Rozowsky [1], Selena Vukadinovic [1], Milos Trboljevac [1], Jack DiGiovanna[1], Eric W Wegner [2], Allison P. Heath [2], Adam Resnick[2]

Author Affliation:  [1] Velsera, 529 Main St Ste 6610, Charlestown, MA 02129; [2] Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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8

Variant Level Matching, Building a Federated Platform for Rare Disease Discovery and Diagnosis

Authors: Kayla Socarras [1], Corina Antonescu [3], Sean Griffith [3], Yaron Einhorn [4], Tom Bensimhon [4], Noga Yaffe [4], Netta Kabala [4], Miro Cupak [5], Heidi L. Rehm [1,2], Nara Sobreira[3]

Author Affiliations: [1] Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA; [2] Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; [3] Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; [4] Franklin by Genoox, Palo Alto, California, USA. [5] DNAstack, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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9

Survey of U.S. institutional signing officials (SOs) on data sharing policies and practices

Authors: Jonathan Lawson [1], Vasiliki N. Rahimzadeh, PhD [2]

Author Affiliations: [1] Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; [2]Baylor College of Medicine

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vzEJ70fm3FXcF_XfQHadA5rqyrL-fQiN/view?usp=drive_link

10

VarDB: a data-sharing platform for clinical and genomic analysis data

Authors: Eleanor Lewis [1], Steve Bilobram [1], Raphael Pletz [1], Jacky Li [1], Mathieu Lemieux [1], Javier Castillo Arnemann [1], Courtney Gosselin [1], Tina Wong [1], Eric Chuah [1], Karen Mungall [1], Erin Pleasance [1], Yaoqing Shen [1], Jessica MT Nelson [1], Stephen Yip [2],  Andrew Mungall [1], Steven JM Jones[1,3], Marco A Marra [1,4], Janessa Laskin [5]

Author Affiliations: [1] Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada; [2] Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver;  [3] Department of Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; [4] Department of Michael Smith Laboratories, University of Britis; Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; [5] Department of Medical Oncology, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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11

Powering Kids First Variant Exploration on CAVATICA Using GA4GH Standards

Authors: Jared Rozowsky [1], Michele Mattioni [1], Surya Saha [1], Jack DiGiovanna [1], Jeremy Costanza [2], Vincent Ferretti [2], Yiran Guo [3], Eric W Wenger [3], Allison P. Heath [3], Adam Resnick [3]

Author Affiliations:  [1] Velsera, 529 Main St Ste 6610, Charlestown, MA 02129 ; [2] Sainte Justine, 3175 Chem. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal, QC H3T 1C5, Canada; [3] Center for Data-Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D3b), Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 

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12

Towards a pan-Canadian genomic health data ecosystem: designing a solution to support data sharing for clinical and research rare disease communities

Authors: E Magda Price [1], David Morais [2], Meredith Gillespie [1], Dimitri Patrinos [3], Anna Szuto [4], Kathy Gratton [5], Mary-Ann Harrison [1], Jacques Michaud [2] , Dennis Bulman [6] , Jordan Lerner-Ellis [7], Ma’n Zawati [3], Christian Marshall [7], Vincent Ferretti [2] , Francois Bernier [5] , Kym Boycott [1]

Author Affiliations: [1] CHEO Research Institute, Ottawa, ON; [2] CHU Ste Justine, Montreal, QC

[3] McGill University, Montreal, QC; [4] Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON; [5] University of Calgary, Calgary, AB; [6] Alberta Precision Laboratories, Calgary, AB; [7] Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON

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13

Multiomics research on Cancer Genomics Cloud driven by GA4GH standards

Authors: Surya Saha [1], Boris Majic [1], Sara Zivkovic [1], Irina Sevic [1], Amanda Charbonneau [2], Arthur Brady [2], Alex Baumann [3], Kat Thayer [3], Heather Creasy [4], Todd Pihl [5], Henry Schaefer [5], David Pot [2] and Jack DiGiovanna [1]

Author Affiliations:  [1] Velsera, 529 Main St Ste 6610, Charlestown, MA 02129; [2] General Dynamics Information Technology, 3150 Fairview Park Drive, Falls Church, VA 22042; [3] The Broad Institute, 415 Main St. Cambridge, MA 02142; [4] Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, 20892; [5] Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, MD 21701

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14

The Galaxy Project and the GA4GH

Author: John Chilton [1]

Author Affiliation: [1] Penn State University

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15

Bridging the Gap in Oncology Research: CancerModels.Org – Standardizing and Integrating Patient-Derived Cancer Models for Global Collaboration and Personalized Care

Authors: Zinaida Perova [1], Mauricio Martinez [1], Tushar Mandloi [1], Marcelo Rios Almanza [1], Federico Lopez Gomez [1], Csaba Halmagyi [1], Steven Neuhauser [2], Dale Begley [2], Debra Krupke [2], Carol Bult [2], Helen Parkinson [1]

Author Affiliations: [1] EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK; [2] The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME, USA

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16

Reporting from the Trenches: Operating a Data Access Committee for international neuroscience data sharing

Authors: Brendan Behan [1], Francis Jeanson [1], Ontario Brain Institute, Heena Cheema [1], Fatema Khimji [1], Derek Eng [1], John Clarkso [1], Kirk Nylen [1,2], Tom Mikkelsen [1]

Author Affiliations: [1] Ontario Brain Institute; [2] Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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17

Will you help us mobilise the abundance of functional genomics data for FAIR reuse in the age of pangenomes and AI?

Authors: Sveinung Gundersen [1], Joshua Baskaran [1], Federico Bianchini [1], Sanjay Boddu [2], Jeanne Cheneby [1], Finn Drabløs [3]*, Nazeefa Fatima [1], José M. Fernández [4], Ahmed Ghanem [1]*, Matúš Kalaš [5], Radmila Kompova [1]*, Kieron Taylor [2]*, Dmytro Titov [1]*, Daniel Zerbino [2]*, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez [4], Peter Harrison [2], Eivind Hovig [1,6]

Author Affiliations:  [1] Centre for Bioinformatics / ELIXIR Norway, University of Oslo (UiO), Oslo, Norway; [2] EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, United Kingdom; [3] Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine / ELIXIR Norway, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; [4] Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB) / ELIXIR Spain, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC), Barcelona, Spain; [5] Department of Informatics / ELIXIR Norway, University of Bergen (UiB), Bergen, Norway; [6] Department of Tumor Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital (OUH), Oslo, Norway; *past project members

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