News
Dr Heidi Rehm, Global alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) chair, announced the formation of the GA4GH Strategic Leadership Committee and the appointment of its inaugural cohort of leaders. Following an open nomination process, ten individuals were selected to join the Strategic Leadership Committee. SLC members have substantial experience working both within GA4GH and in related fields, and will contribute a wide breadth of expertise and a diversity of perspectives to the GA4GH leadership team.
Congratulations to Andres on winning the best research poster prize at the 2024 Temerty Faculty of Medicine Research showcase!
“Data is the most valuable currency in genetics research” - Raymond Kim, in his introduction to the OHCRN Spring reconnect, May 22 2024.
Come meet the Genome Informatics and Courtot lab at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC)
Congratulations to Robin Haw on receiving the OICR Extra Mile award in recognition of his exceptional support to the team!
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 have been awarded a 3 year Digital Research Alliance of Canada award for the “ICGC ARGO datasets on Alliance Cloud” project. This project seeks to move the ICGC ARGO datasets across to the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (Alliance) cloud by leveraging DRAC cloud hosting up to 4PB.
OICR and the Courtot lab have joined the Coronavirus Variants Rapid Response Network (CoVaRR-Net) and have secured additional funding to maintain and expand the VirusSeq data portal until March 2025.