GA4GH Connect

Mélanie Courtot Director Genome Informatics & Principal Investigator

April 27, 2024 October 31, 2024

Last week Jon Eubank, technical associate director in the Genome Informatics team and I had the pleasure to attend the GA4GH Connect meeting in Ascona, Switzerland.

We heard and contributed to different sessions around implementing Beacon for ICGC-ARGO and the Pan Canadian Genome Library (PCGL), as well as work the Regulatory and Ethics working group is initiating. Jon talked about our work on Overture and I presented the new PCGL project to the Steering Committee, highlighting connections between PCGL and GA4GH, with my colleagues David Bujold and Ma’n Zawaati. Slides for the PCGL GA4GH intro are available here.

Jon presenting on Overture at GA4GH Connect in Ascona

Ascona itself was beautiful and the Swiss/Italian charm did not disappoint!

Melanie at the Fondazione Monte Verità in Ascona

Beautiful Ascona! Soooo many stairs though.