Category: Press Releases

TORONTO, Ontario — Health and genomic data are strategic national assets. Around the world, governments are recognizing that the AI models shaping the future of medicine are only as powerful as the data they learn from — yet centralizing sensitive patient data to fuel those models risks surrendering the very sovereignty that health systems are built to protect.DNAstack, founded in Toronto, has resolved this tension.

MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — PacBio (NASDAQ: PACB), developer of the world’s most advanced sequencing technologies, today announced a collaboration with DNAstack to power the world’s first global federated dataset of HiFi whole genome sequencing data. Through the HiFi Solves Global Consortium, the collaboration enables secure international research — allowing genomic insights to travel across borders while sensitive data remains under institutional control.

The HiFi Solves Sub-fertility Consortium integrates DNAstack’s federated data platform, the world’s first solution to enable the creation and analysis of global federated networks of data in compliance with industry standards set by the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health.

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.

Publication in Cell on the genomic architecture of autism from comprehensive genomic analysis of over 11,000 individuals.

DNAstack CEO Dr. Marc Fiume spoke with Angie Seth of CTV on his vision for an Internet for Pandemic Surveillance.

A coalition of researchers and healthcare providers in Canada and beyond are building what they believe to be the first global, federated network for sharing genomics and clinical data to support advances in research and patient care for autism (Subscriber content). 

Genome Canada launched the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal today to track the evolving COVID-19 pandemic across Canada. 

Genome Canada, in partnership with the Government of Canada, is pleased to announce the development of a new Canadian SARS-CoV-2 Data Portal.

The Ontario government has unveiled a six-point plan to prevent and stop the spread of new COVID-19 variants. 

A consortium of Canadian informatics firms, pharmaceutical companies, and research institutes has pledged C$5.1 million to tailor a bioinformatics and health data platform for COVID-19 research across the country.

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.

Co-founded by U of T alumnus Marc Fiume, DNAstack launched a search engine aimed at the global research community that scans and indexes genomic information about the novel coronavirus.

Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster is supporting Canadians in the fight against COVID-19. 

DNAstack today introduced a Beacon for SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19, available at covid-19.dnastack.com.

Toronto company is ‘getting noticed’ as it works to build the digital infrastructure to power the next generation of scientific research.

Here we describe the Beacon protocol and how it can be used as a model for the federated discovery and sharing of genomic data.

The Government of Canada is investing up to $950 million over five years to support industry-led innovation superclusters across the country and accelerate economic growth, productivity, and competitiveness across five Superclusters.

Newly released APIs are the first products from the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health‘s strategic roadmap for interoperability of genomic data.

ClinGen has joined with the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to support the development of open, freely‐available technical standards and regulatory frameworks for secure and responsible sharing of genomic and health‐related data.

Project partners will expand on infrastructure developed by DNAstack for accessing genomic data and explore patient consent models that support nationwide sharing.

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.

The Autism Speaks MSSNG project will help researchers answer the many remaining questions about the genetic underpinnings of autism by sequencing the DNA of over 10,000 families affected by autism. 

The volume of genomics and health data is growing rapidly, driven by sequencing for both research and clinical use.

The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has announced their Strategic Roadmap, which includes a series of more than two dozen deliverables to be launched in 2018 and developed over the next one to three years. 

DNAstack, Canada’s Genomics Enterprise, Google, the Centre of Genomics and Policy, and more announce the launch of the Canadian Genomics Cloud (CGC): a national cloud-based infrastructure for genomics initiatives to share data across Canada.

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. 

The Personal Genome Project Canada is a comprehensive public data resource that integrates whole genome sequencing data and health information. 

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.

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.