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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.
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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.
Dr. Marc Fiume,
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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.
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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.Digital technologies are driving much of this change, rapidly outpacing our traditional systems and infrastructure. It’s more important than ever that we bolster innovation to foster effective and sustainable health care, as well as economic growth.
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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).
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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.
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
Press Releases
April 7, 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.
Press Releases
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.
Press Releases
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.
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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.
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December 1, 2020
Consortium Secures $5.1M to Expand Genomics Platform for COVID Research
A national consortium led by DNAstack will expand development of a software platform for genomics and health data and apply it to COVID-19.
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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.
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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.
The system, demonstrated at the 8th Plenary Meeting of GA4GH earlier this week, features the first integration of multiple emerging standards for data access, discovery, and cloud computing, which are foundational for connecting secure, scalable, and distributed data sharing networks.
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August 11, 2020
COVID-19 Researchers Get a Boost From AI-Powered Genomics Cloud
DNAstack is helping scientists around the globe better understand COVID-19, so they can develop treatments and vaccines.