# Phenopackets — GA4GH Phenopacket Schema
## Overview
The GA4GH Phenopacket Schema is a community standard for the computable exchange of clinical and phenotypic data linked to genomic information. It captures a patient's phenotypic features using [[HPO]] terms, diagnoses, biosample data, genomic variants via [[VCF]] or [[VRS]], medical actions, and pedigree information in a single structured package. It supports rare disease, complex disease, and cancer use cases, and is interoperable with [[HL7 FHIR]] via a published implementation guide.
## Connections
- Governed by: [[GA4GH]] (Clinical and Phenotypic Data Capture Work Stream)
- ISO standard: ISO/TS 5435 (2022)
- Uses: [[HPO]], [[VCF]], [[VRS]]
- Implements: [[HL7 FHIR]] (published FHIR implementation guide)
## Resources
- https://www.ga4gh.org/product/phenopackets/
- https://phenopacket-schema.readthedocs.io
- https://github.com/phenopackets/phenopacket-schema