February 10, 2023
DNAstack named Company of the Year by Life Sciences Ontario
Award recognizes Toronto company’s global impact on genomics and health research.
May 10, 2022
DNAstack Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
DNAstack drives medical breakthroughs with its federated data discovery and analysis platform built on open standards. The company was selected for establishing federated data networks and powering insights in pandemic surveillance, neuroscience, rare disease, and oncology.
April 21, 2022
Digital Technology Supercluster Announces Investment to Increase the Effectiveness of Precision Oncology
Harnessing artificial intelligence to take the guesswork out of diagnosing cancer recurrence for millions of cancer survivors
February 9, 2022
DNAstack Launches Viral AI, the First Federated Network for Genomic Variant Surveillance
DNAstack today announced Viral AI, a federated network for genomic variant surveillance and infectious disease research. Viral AI was designed to deliver equitable access to software infrastructure, accelerate international data sharing, and empower scientists and public health officials with globally representative datasets they need to mitigate current and future infectious disease outbreaks.
October 22, 2021
An Interview with Canada‘s Digital Technology Supercluster on Accelerating Innovation in Canada
Our world is constantly changing and at its core, innovation is really about responding to change in a new, creative way. It requires courage, conviction, resilience, the support of a community of collaborators, and innovation-oriented policies in order to succeed.Read More
August 6, 2020
Harmonized Variant Calling for SARS-CoV-2 Genomes
To combat the current COVID-19 pandemic, scientists around the world are sequencing viral genomes at an accelerated pace.
July 13, 2020
SARS-CoV-2: Biology Origins, and How Open Science is Accelerating the Search for Therapeutic Answers
DNAstack’s bioinformatician Heather Ward breaks down the biology of the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 outbreak.
October 17, 2019
Joint Genotyping 10K Whole Genome Sequences Using Sentieon on Google: Strategies for Analyzing Large Sample Sets
Despite advances in sequencing and analysis tools, calling variants in whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data is not trivial, even when dealing with only a few dozen samples.
September 26, 2017
Crowd-Sourcing Variant Interpretations to Improve Patient Outcomes
We fundamentally believe that democratization of genomics information through sharing will massively accelerate discoveries that will lead to better treatments and outcomes for patients affected by genetic diseases.