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DNAstack Inks Partnership with Sentieon to Offer Faster, Cheaper, More Consistent Bioinformatics in the Cloud
DNAstack, a cloud genomics company, today is announcing a partnership with Sentieon, an award-winning bioinformatics software company.
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.
We can avoid long diagnostic odyssies by connecting patients’ data into networks that leverage — in realtime — large and exponentially growing volumes of information. This is the inspiration behind our work on the Beacon Project for the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health, where we are defining industry standards for sharing genomic variants.
Introducing Workflows, the New Standard in Cloud Bioinformatics
Today, DNAstack announced the launch of a major update to its cloud-based genomics software platform.
The update contains many new features, including a revolutionary application called Workflows that makes it easier and more affordable than ever for genome scientists to find, develop, share, and run bioinformatics workflows at scale. The app brings the most advanced technologies and standards for bioinformatics to market and positions DNAstack as a commercial leader in cloud genomics.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
DNAstack Building Business on Genomic Data Sharing Networks Based on Open Standards
Genomics software startup DNAstack this week unveiled its first product, a cloud-based platform that provides tools to help genetics researchers share and analyze biomedical data in the Google cloud.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.