This session, in Genome BC's Data Literacy series, explores ELIXIR, Europe's premier intergovernmental organization dedicated to advancing life sciences through bioinformatics infrastructure. Tim Hubbard, the director of ELIXIR and a renowned expert in bioinformatics, presents how ELIXIR's innovative initiatives foster collaboration and drive scientific breakthroughs. Discover how ELIXIR integrates and sustains bioinformatics resources across Europe […]

The next webinar in our Data Literacy Series will explore two innovative platforms reshaping health research. Genome BC's Health Metadata Commons serves as a central hub for storing and sharing metadata related to human biological samples and omics research data. This facilitates data reuse, accelerates scientific breakthroughs and advances personalized medicine. Meanwhile, protocols.io provides a […]

Some scientists consider the biodiversity crisis to be a greater threat than climate change. Over 37,000 species worldwide (28% of all species) are at risk of extinction. A reference genome is a digital nucleic acid sequence database assembled by scientists as a representative example of the set of genes in one idealized individual organism of […]

ABOUT GENOME BC'S DATA LITERACY SERIES Genome BC is thrilled to present our ongoing series on Data Literacy. This series aims to bring national and international experts together to help deepen our understanding of different data related initiatives, standards and resources. Developing a better shared understanding of benefits and risks related to data will help […]

ABOUT THIS SERIES Genome BC is thrilled to present our ongoing series on Data Literacy. This series aims to bring national and international experts together to help deepen our understanding of different data related initiatives, standards and resources. Developing a better shared understanding of benefits and risks related to data will help advance data collection, […]