September 20, 2023
June 30, 2023
DNAstack Accepts LSO Company of the Year 2023 Award
DNAstack CEO Marc Fiume accepts the LSO Company of the Year Award, introduced by Dr. Catalina Lopez-Correa, CSO at Genome Canada.Read More
May 2, 2023
DNAstack launches Neuroscience AI to accelerate collaborative research and discovery
Neuroscience AI will enable researchers to make discoveries from larger and more diverse datasets than ever before.Read More
November 16, 2022
Pacific Biosciences Says More Sequencers in Development Pipeline, Outlines Future Growth Plans
David Miller, PacBio VP of product marketing, highlighted the company’s partnerships, including with Hamilton, Miroculus, the Broad Institute, Twist Biosciences, Google Health, DNAnexus, and DNAstack, for various companion offerings to enhance its sequencing workflow.
November 14, 2022
Genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive whole-genome sequence annotation
Publication in Cell on the genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive genomic analysis of over 11,000 individuals.
Viral AI democratizes access to software for genomic surveillance and infectious disease research
- Dr. Marc Fiume, CEO at DNAstackAutism is complex and our research has demonstrated the value of connecting massive datasets to help us uncover critical genetic insights
- Dr. Stephen Scherer, Director of TCAG at SickKids October 22, 2020
Digital Technology Supercluster Makes $10 Million Investment, Rounding Out $60 Million COVID-19 Program
The Digital Technology Supercluster has made $10.7 million in follow-on investments to five projects under its COVID-19 stream, rounding out the Supercluster’s $60 million budget for the pandemic-focused program.
The Connection Demos are an enormous success for the members of the GA4GH
- Ewan Birney, Chair of GA4GH August 11, 2020
COVID-19 Researchers Get a Boost From AI-Powered Genomics Cloud
March 20, 2020
DNAstack Launches COVID-19 Beacon to Accelerate Sharing Genomic Data in the Fight Against Novel Coronavirus
DNAstack today introduced a Beacon for SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19, available at covid-19.dnastack.com.
October 24, 2018
Genomic Data Interoperability, Remote Workflow Key to New Global Alliance APIs
Newly released APIs are the first products from the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health‘s strategic roadmap for interoperability of genomic data.
August 2, 2018
Registered Access: Authorizing Data Access
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) proposes a data access policy model—“registered access”—to increase and improve access to data requiring an agreement to basic terms and conditions, such as the use of DNA sequence and health data in research.
March 14, 2018
Simplifying Research Access to Genomics and Health Data with Library Cards
The volume of genomics and health data is growing rapidly, driven by sequencing for both research and clinical use.
February 9, 2018
Health and the Genome Puzzle: Mapping DNA Has Gotten Cheaper, But Do We Know How to Use the Data?
Not only was Michael Szego the ethics lead on the Personal Genome Project Canada — he was also a participant, agreeing to have his genome mapped and shared publicly.
February 5, 2018
The Personal Genome Project Canada: Findings from Whole Genome Sequences of the Inaugural 56 Participants
The Personal Genome Project Canada is a comprehensive public data resource that integrates whole genome sequencing data and health information.
July 20, 2017
Data Sharing as a National Quality Improvement Program: Reporting on BRCA1 and BRCA2 Variant-Interpretation Comparisons Through the Canadian Open Genetics Repository (COGR)
The purpose of this study was to develop a national program for Canadian diagnostic laboratories to compare DNA-variant interpretations and resolve discordant-variant classifications using the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes as a case study.
February 15, 2017
Beacon Goes Global
Almost sixty percent of the human population resides in Asia and Africa, but only a fraction of the world’s human genomic sequencing efforts cover that community.
January 3, 2017
ELIXIR and GA4GH Beacon Team Up to Advance Genomic Data Sharing
The Beacon Project of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) and ELIXIR, the European infrastructure for life-science data, announced today an expansion of their partnership to develop the Beacon Project that will improve the discoverability of European genomic data.
December 19, 2016
Canadian Research Group Announces C$700K in Funding for New Initiatives Program
Members of the International Canadian Data Sharing Initiative (Can-SHARE) have announced the recipients of C$700,000 ($522,000) in funding under their New Initiatives program.
October 18, 2016
DNAstack Launched for Google Cloud Genomics
This week DNAstack, a Toronto-based genomic software company, launched its Google Cloud platform to accelerate genetic disease research and precision medicine.
June 10, 2016
GA4GH Presents Vision, Model for Genomic and Clinical Data Sharing
In today’s Science, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) calls for a federated data ecosystem for sharing genomic and clinical data.
June 10, 2016
A Federated Ecosystem for Sharing Genomic, Clinical Data
Early data-sharing efforts have led to improved variant interpretation and development of treatments for rare diseases and some cancer types.
May 11, 2016
DNAstack Joins Johnson & Johnson Incubator, JLABS
JLABS will let startups in therapeutic, pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer health research test out ideas with access to state-of-the-art equipment, without giving up equity.
December 15, 2015
New Pan-Canadian Program to Accelerate Data Sharing in Biomedical Research and Patient Care
Genome Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) today announced a $3.3 million investment in Can-SHARE – a pan-Canadian program that will enable innovation in the use of genomic data for health care for patients in Canada and worldwide.
December 15, 2015
Canadian Genomic Data-Sharing Program Lands C$3.3M
The Can-Share program seeks to build policies and data tools to share data among Canadian research institutions and with international partners.
August 15, 2015
Beacon Project Cracks the Door for Genomic Data Sharing
Through its Data Working Group, GA4GH wants to replace many existing standards, conventions, and file formats with new ones that will scale to searching through genomes at the level of whole populations ― and, crucially, make it easier for separate organizations to share data.
April 2, 2015
DNAstack Tackles Massive, Complex DNA Datasets with Google Genomics
The DNAstack platform is built on Google Genomics and Google Cloud Platform, giving researchers fast, easy, and more secure access to genomics data for analysis and sharing.
February 18, 2015
10 Breakthrough Technologies: Internet of DNA
In February MIT Technology Review chose their 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015—here’s how they have advanced since.
December 17, 2014
Geneticists Begin Tests of an Internet for DNA
A coalition of geneticists and computer programmers calling itself the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health is developing protocols for exchanging DNA information across the Internet.
November 20, 2014
These Six Great Neuroscience Ideas Could Make the Leap from Lab to Market
Research labs across Ontario are full of ingenious – and even life-saving – inventions.