The FAIR genomes project was initially a Dutch national ZONMW funded national coordination action to unite currently fragmented guidelines & tools to increase ‘FAIR’-ness of DNA data - Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability - uniting work from all types of DNA laboratories (rare disease, cancer, research, etc), patients/participants organisations, and has extensive collaborations with (inter)national initiatives. Amongst relevant outputs is NGS semantic metadata data schema that found its way into other projects such as GDI. Read more on the model in van der Velde et al (2022) and the background in Belien et al. (2022). MOLGENIS lead the FAIR genomes project (Prof. Morris Swertz). Now FAIR genomes lives on as a national collaboration.