Repositories list

• cat-vrs

  Public
  A terminology and data model for describing categorical variation concepts.

  Makefile

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  Apache License 2.0

  •4•4•20•2•Updated Dec 24, 2025Dec 24, 2025

• analytics-dashboard

  Public

  ga4gh/analytics-dashboard’s past year of commit activity
  Embedded analytics dashboard on GA4GH metrics

  Jupyter Notebook

  •0•1•4•5•Updated Dec 24, 2025Dec 24, 2025

• ga4gh-starter-kit-passport-broker

  Public
  Admin API for managing GA4GH Passport users, visas, and assertions. Part of the GA4GH Starter Kit.

  starter-kit

  Java

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2•0•0•2•Updated Dec 23, 2025Dec 23, 2025

• va-spec-python

  Public

  ga4gh/va-spec-python’s past year of commit activity
  GA4GH Variation Annotation Python Implementation

  bioinformaticsgenomicsga4gh

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •1•2•4•1•Updated Dec 23, 2025Dec 23, 2025

• vrs

  Public
  Extensible specification for representing and uniquely identifying biological sequence variation

  bioinformaticsgenomicsvariation

  Jupyter Notebook

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  Apache License 2.0

  •38•94•32•2•Updated Dec 20, 2025Dec 20, 2025

• cat-vrs-python

  Public
  GA4GH Categorical Variation Representation Python Implementation

  bioinformaticsgenomicsga4gh

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •4•1•3•0•Updated Dec 19, 2025Dec 19, 2025

• gks.github.io

  Public
  The landing page for getting started with GA4GH Genomic Knowledge Standards

  Apache License 2.0

  •0•0•3•0•Updated Dec 19, 2025Dec 19, 2025

• data-repository-service-schemas

  Public
  A repository for the schemas used for the Data Repository Service.

  Apache License 2.0

  •56•63•70•26•Updated Dec 19, 2025Dec 19, 2025

• vrs-python

  Public

  ga4gh/vrs-python’s past year of commit activity
  GA4GH Variation Representation Python Implementation

  bioinformaticsgenomicsga4gh

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •38•61•66•7•Updated Dec 17, 2025Dec 17, 2025

• ga4gh-registry

  Public
  Implementation registry service for cataloguing implementations of GA4GH standards

  HTML

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2•5•0•2•Updated Dec 16, 2025Dec 16, 2025

• ga4gh-starter-kit-common

  Public
  Common utils library for GA4GH Starter Kit web services

  starter-kit

  Java

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  Apache License 2.0

  •2•1•6•2•Updated Dec 16, 2025Dec 16, 2025

• va-spec

  Public
  An information model for representing variant annotations.

  Jupyter Notebook

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  Apache License 2.0

  •6•25•111•3•Updated Dec 10, 2025Dec 10, 2025

• workflow-execution-service-schemas

  Public
  The WES API is a standard way to run and manage portable workflows.

  workflowwdlga4gh+ 1cwl

  Apache License 2.0

  •37•86•57•4•Updated Dec 9, 2025Dec 9, 2025

• gks-core

  Public
  Common classes and schemas used by all GKS specifications (ie. VR, VA, etc..)

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •0•3•8•0•Updated Dec 8, 2025Dec 8, 2025

• connect-2025-hackathon

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  April Connect 2025 hackathon session

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •0•0•0•2•Updated Dec 6, 2025Dec 6, 2025

• htsget-compliance

  Public
  Compliance testing for htsget deployments

  Python

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  Apache License 2.0

  •3•1•2•2•Updated Dec 6, 2025Dec 6, 2025

• phenopacket-schema

  Public
  Repository for the GA4GH phenopacket schema

  schemaprotobufga4gh+ 4phenotypesmonarchinitiativephenopacketsehr-phenotyping

  Java

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  BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

  •31•92•35•5•Updated Dec 6, 2025Dec 6, 2025

• schema-registry

  Public
  Specification for schema registry API

  schema-registry

  Apache License 2.0

  •0•0•2•0•Updated Dec 2, 2025Dec 2, 2025

• task-execution-schemas

  Public
  Apache License 2.0

  •30•92•46•8•Updated Dec 2, 2025Dec 2, 2025

• experiments-metadata

  Public
  The Experiments Metadata Standard Group focuses on defining a minimal set of metadata properties for genomic datasets, to make them usable in primarily in a discovery context.

  Apache License 2.0

  •0•5•11•0•Updated Dec 1, 2025Dec 1, 2025

• quality-control-wgs

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  GA4GH Quality Control of Whole Genome Sequencing's metrics definition, benchmark resources and reference implementations

  Jupyter Notebook

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  Apache License 2.0

  •5•20•5•1•Updated Nov 25, 2025Nov 25, 2025

• refget

  Public
  GA4GH Refget specifications docs

  collectiondigestfasta+ 1sequence

  9•16•17•0•Updated Nov 12, 2025Nov 12, 2025

• TASC

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  TASC aids the harmonisation of aspects of GA4GH's various products that would otherwise prevent different products from being used together conveniently.

  interoperabilityharmonisationtechnical-alignment

  9•12•23•1•Updated Nov 6, 2025Nov 6, 2025

• REWS

  Public
  An online repository and community gathering place for everything GA4GH Regulatory & Ethics (REWS)

  0•0•0•0•Updated Oct 23, 2025Oct 23, 2025

• REWS-Consent

  Public
  This is the repository for the Consent Policies from the GA4GH Regulatory and Ethics Work Stream. Here you can find our policy documents, as well as community-led discussions, and planned work/roadmaps.

  0•0•0•0•Updated Oct 23, 2025Oct 23, 2025

• 2025-catvar-call-to-action

  Public
  Jupyter Notebook

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  Apache License 2.0

  •0•0•2•0•Updated Sep 24, 2025Sep 24, 2025

• tool-registry-service-schemas

  Public
  APIs for discovering genomics tools, their metadata and their containers

  apiworkflowtool+ 3wdlga4ghcwl

  Shell

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  Apache License 2.0

  •18•33•28•0•Updated Sep 2, 2025Sep 2, 2025

• gks-portal

  Public
  MIT License

  •1•1•20•0•Updated Aug 27, 2025Aug 27, 2025

• w3id.org

  Public
  Forwarding links and rewrite rules for w3id.org

  HTML

  •1.5k•3•0•1•Updated Jul 21, 2025Jul 21, 2025

• approval-tracker

  Public
  GitHub repository for tracking the progress of specification approval

  0•2•7•0•Updated Jul 18, 2025Jul 18, 2025