Parliamentary Secretary for International Development, Karina Gould, on behalf of the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, announced the funding recipients from Genome Canada’s 2015 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology competition, a partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
The following eight projects were awarded to Ontario researchers – with two projects co-led with British Columbia and Atlantic – to support the development of next generation tools and methodologies to analyze the large amounts of data produced by modern genomics technologies. These projects will provide access to new bioinformatics and computational biology tools to enable the research community to meet the challenge of extracting valuable information for use across sectors, such as health and agriculture.
- Enhanced and Automated Visualization of Complex Data
Project leader: Paul C. Boutros, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Total funding: $250,000
- Consolidated epigenetic landscape for congenital, developmental and childhood disorders
Project leaders: Michael Brudno, Rosanna Weksberg, Hospital for Sick Children
Total funding: $249,900
- Dockstore: A platform for sharing cloud-agnostic tools with the research community
Project leader: Vincent Ferretti, Lincoln Stein, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Total funding: $250,000
- Kamphir: A versatile framework to fit models to phylogenetic tree shapes
Project leader: Art F.Y. Poon, Western University
Total funding: $205,365
- ePlants Pipeline and Navigator for Accessing and Integrating Multi-Level ‘Omics Data for 15 Agronomically Important Species for Hypothesis Generation
Project leader: Nicholas Provart, University of Toronto
Total funding: $250,000
- Rapid, accessible genome assembly using long read sequencing
Project leader: Jared Simpson, University of Toronto and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Total funding: $250,000
- Rapid prediction of antimicrobial resistance from metagenomic samples: data, models, and methods (Co-led)
Project leaders: Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University; Andrew G. McArthur, McMaster University
Lead Genome Centre: Genome Atlantic
Total funding: $250,000
- Genomic Epidemiology Application Ontology (GenEpiO) (Co-led)
Project leaders: William Hsiao, University of British Columbia; Andrew G. McArthur, McMaster University; Fiona S.L. Brinkman, Simon Fraser University
Lead Genome Centre: Genome British Columbia
Total funding: $250,000
Read the press release and a list of all projects awarded across Canada.
From left, Marc LePage President and CEO Genome Canada, Dr. Andrew McArthur Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, Parlimentary Secretary for International Development, Karina Gould, Dr. Eric Marcotte Associate Director CIHR Institute of Genetics, Dr. Robin Harkness VP Research Ontario Genomics, Dr. Rob Baker VP Research McMaster University pose after an announcement of the recipients of funding from Genome Canada\’s 2015 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology competition in partnership with Canadian Institutes of Health Research at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Photo by Simon Wilson/ Canadian Press Images