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
April 17, 2023
DNAstack to lead expansion of Canadian platform for federated AI-powered insights in genomics and precision health
The new project will help expand federated, AI-powered insights across distributed networks of genomics and health data. Read More
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.
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.
September 27, 2022
A Vision for an Internet for Pandemic Surveillance
DNAstack CEO Marc Fiume presents a vision for an Internet for Pandemic Surveillance at the 10th Plenary Meeting of the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH) in Barcelona, Spain.
May 28, 2022
CTV Interview: An Internet for Pandemic Surveillance
DNAstack CEO Dr. Marc Fiume spoke with Angie Seth of CTV on his vision for an Internet for Pandemic Surveillance.
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
Viral AI democratizes access to software for genomic surveillance and infectious disease research
- Dr. Marc Fiume, CEO at DNAstack
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
June 17, 2021
Autism Sharing Initiative Brings Federated Data Model to Research, Clinical Care
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).
Autism 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
June 2, 2021
Canada Leads International Collaboration for Precision Healthcare Research for Autism
Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster and DNAstack today announced the Autism Sharing Initiative, a new project to build the first federated, global network for sharing genomics and clinical data to accelerate research with the hopes of developing precision healthcare approaches for autistic individuals.
April 27, 2021
Genome Canada Goes Live with National Data Portal to Track COVID-19 in Real Time
Genome Canada launched the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal today to track the evolving COVID-19 pandemic across Canada.
March 23, 2021
Genome Canada Announces New Canadian SARS-CoV-2 Data Portal
Genome Canada, in partnership with the Government of Canada, is pleased to announce the development of a new Canadian SARS-CoV-2 Data Portal.
January 29, 2021
Ontario Takes Immediate Action to Address COVID-19 Variants
The Ontario government has unveiled a six-point plan to prevent and stop the spread of new COVID-19 variants.
December 1, 2020
Canadian Consortium Launches COVID Cloud to Support Molecular Research
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.
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
October 2, 2020
DNAstack Showcases Standards-Based System For Federated Discovery and Analysis in GA4GH 2020 Connection Demos
Today, DNAstack revealed a software system built on standards developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to enable federated analysis of genomics and related health data.
August 11, 2020
COVID-19 Researchers Get a Boost From AI-Powered Genomics Cloud
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 30, 2020
DNAstack Launches Genomic Data Explorer to Accelerate Research in COVID-19
DNAstack today announced COVID Cloud, an online destination for exploring one of the largest collections of viral genome sequences in the world.
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.
April 20, 2020
Using Innovation to Protect Canadians and Secure Our Economy
Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster is supporting Canadians in the fight against COVID-19.
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.
November 11, 2019
Supercluster Helps DNAstack Keep up with its Ambitions
Toronto company is ‘getting noticed’ as it works to build the digital infrastructure to power the next generation of scientific research.
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.
October 14, 2019
DNAstack Launches Clinical Evidence Beacons to Drive Crowdsourcing for Genetic Disease Discovery
DNAstack today announced the launch of Clinical Evidence Beacons on the Beacon Network, a real-time search engine for finding genetic mutations across a global network of genomic datasets.Read More
August 9, 2019
Canadian Precision Health Infrastructure Emphasizes Secure Data Sharing, Privacy, Consent
Project partners will expand on infrastructure developed by DNAstack for accessing genomic data and explore patient consent models that support nationwide sharing.
March 4, 2019
Federated Discovery and Sharing of Genomic Data Using Beacons
Here we describe the Beacon protocol and how it can be used as a model for the federated discovery and sharing of genomic data.
November 27, 2018
Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster Officially Launches with $153M in Funding from ISED
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.
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.
October 11, 2018
ClinGen Advancing Genomic Data‐Sharing Standards as a GA4GH Driver Project
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.
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.
June 25, 2018
DNAstack and Autism Speaks® Announce Collaboration to Accelerate Scientific Discovery on One of the World’s Largest Autism Genome Databases
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.
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 26, 2018
GA4GH Releases 2018 Strategic Roadmap
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.
February 18, 2018
Canadian Genomics Cloud to Develop GA4GH Compliant Precision Medicine Platform
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.
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.
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.
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.