Warning

THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL GA4GH VRS DOCUMENTATION! This is a demonstration build for discussing advancements to the maturity model and versioning system for GKS specification development. Please refer to https://vrs.ga4gh.org for the GA4GH VRS standard.

Getting Involved

VRS is driven by community involvement. Here are a few ways that you can get involved:

• GA4GH Variation Representation mailing list.

• Biweekly meetings. Currently (July 2021) meets on the second and fourth Mondays of each month at 9am US Pacific time.

• Slack #VR channel.

• Raise issues in VRS repo.

• Read the manuscript! The GA4GH Variation Representation Specification (VRS): a Computational Framework for the Precise Representation and Federated Identification of Molecular Variation. [Pending publication in Cell Genomics)

• VRS-python reference implementation contains notebooks with examples.

• VRS Webinar and Slides from the GHIF Workshop Series.