Debbie Lawes

Canada among world's largest genome sequencing sites with $58M partnership

Debbie Lawes
June 7, 2016

A $58-million collaborative investment has propelled Canada into the global top five for DNA sequencing, enabling large-scale population studies and faster disease diagnosis. Author Debbie Lawes explores how this unified national platform integrates human and agricultural research to keep Canada at the forefront of personalized medicine and genomics innovation.

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Organizations:
BC Cancer Agency, Canada Foundation for Innovation, Canada's Genomics Enterprise, Centre for Applied Genomics, Children and Women's Hospital, Compute Canada, Genome Canada, Genome Quebec Innovation Centre, Illumina Inc, McGill University, Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, SickKids, University of British Columbia, and University of Toronto
People:
Debbie Lawes, Mark Lathrop, Mark LePage, Stephen Scherer, and Steven Jones
Topics:
agricultural research, bioinformatics, cancer research, clinical diagnosis, data storage, genetics, genome sequencing, genomics, genomics enterprise, personalized medicine, population studies, and research computing

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