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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.
Using Innovation to Protect Canadians and Secure Our Economy
Canada's Digital Technology Supercluster is supporting Canadians in the fight against COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.