DNAstack Launches Clinical Evidence Beacons to Drive Crowdsourcing for Genetic Disease Discovery

TORONTO, Ont. (Oct. 15, 2019) — DNAstack today announced the launch of “Clinical Evidence Beacons” on the Beacon Network, a real-time search engine for finding genetic mutations across a global network of genomic datasets. These additions will enable medical laboratories to crowdsource the interpretation of variants through a secure social network.

Beacon publication at Nature Biotechnology

Federated discovery and sharing of genomic data using Beacons

Marc Fiume, Miroslav Cupak, Stephen Keenan, Jordi Rambla, Sabela de la Torre, Stephanie O. M. Dyke, Anthony J. Brookes, Knox Carey, David Lloyd, Peter Goodhand, Maximilian Haeussler, Michael Baudis, Heinz Stockinger, Lena Dolman, Ilkka Lappalainen, Juha Törnroos, Mikael Linden, J. Dylan Spalding, Saif Ur-Rehman, Angela Page, Paul Flicek, Stephen Sherry, David Haussler, Susheel Varma, Gary Saunders and Serena Scollen

GA4GH News - Leadership Changes

In this press release, GA4GH announces the recent changes to the GA4GH leadership team.

OICR News - The buzz about Beacon

This article by the OICR public relations team highlights the role of the Beacon project in the GA4GH landscape, with emphasis on the role of Marc Fiume - now an adjunct professor at OICR - as one of the developers of the original protocol.

GA4GH and ELIXIR Release Beacon API v1 with increased security measures

ELIXIR and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) have announced the release of the first genomic data interoperability standard from the GA4GH 2018 Strategic Roadmap.

Global network of Beacons lighting up the world of genomic data

The Beacon Project has released new Beacon API v0.4 specifications to provide greater search functions and richer search results.