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GHGA User Documentation

Welcome to the GHGA User Documentation. On these pages you will find relevant information on services provided by GHGA - the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive.

Limitations on External Submissions - June 2026

The GHGA Data Portal was launched in summmer 2024. Since then, substantial improvements have been made, including support for data uploads from external users. Current development focuses on further enhancing metadata handling and streamlining the submission workflow to provide a scalable, user-friendly experience suitable for national operation.

At present, submissions from external users outside the GHGA Consortium still require some manual processing and therefore cannot yet be fully supported at scale. If you are interested in submitting data, please refer to our FAQ and the corresponding user story.

Getting Started - User Stories

The GHGA Data Portal supports researchers in browsing, accessing, and submitting human omics data under controlled access. This section provides step-by-step guidance for different user stories.

Visual summary of GHGA Data Portal user stories with icons: browsing, accessing, submitting, and using data – each described in more detail in the text below on this page.

  1. Browsing Data – Search and filter available datasets to find relevant research data. Learn how to navigate the GHGA Data Portal efficiently.
  2. Accessing Data – Follow this step-by-step process to request dataset access, including login requirements and approval workflows.
  3. Submitting Data – Understand the submission process, including metadata preparation, file uploads, and necessary legal agreements.
  4. Data Use & Access Guide – Learn about suggested ethical standards, decision-making criteria, and policies for handling access requests.

GHGA Terms of Use

The GHGA Terms of Use1 define the services offered by the GHGA Consortium and the performance levels of those services that users can expect. They also define the conditions that apply to users when using GHGA.

Contact

Please reach out to the GHGA Helpdesk for any questions on GHGA.

About GHGA

The GHGA Consortium is not an independent legal entity but an association of research institutions from all over Germany. It is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) as part of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

GHGA – The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (www.ghga.de, Grant Number 441914366).

Listing in FAIR-Sharing Repositories

GHGA is listed in the following repositories as a FAIR-sharing ressources:

  1. The GHGA Consortium. (2024). Terms of Use GHGA Data Infrastructure (Version 1.1). Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.14357642
    Most recent Version: 10.5281/zenodo.11146386 ↩