This month’s blog was written by Melanie Courtot, metadata standards coordinator at EMBL-EBI and co-Work Package Lead of CINECA WP3 - Cohort Level Metadata Representation. This blog is the fourth in our Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) standards series, presenting an overview of how GA4GH standards are being developed and implemented by CINECA. In our April post about Passport, Mikael from CINECA WP2 explained the importance of controlled-access to protect sensitive data, federated data access in the cloud and how Passport enables researchers to authenticate - prove they are who they say they are.
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