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An open platform for rapid, reproducible, phenotype-centric variant prioritization in poorly-characterized rare genetic disorders

PROJECT LEAD(S)/CO-LEAD(S) Jason de Koning (University of Calgary)
COMPETITION/ FUNDING OPPORTUNITY Genome Canada - Enabling Bioinformatics Solutions (EBS)
PROJECT START DATE July 1, 2020
PROJECT END DATE March 31, 2022
ALBERTA’S ROLE Lead

Rare genetic diseases are individually rare but collectively quite common, affecting approximately 3 million Canadians. Unlike common diseases, genetic causes for rare diseases must often be hypothesized from plausibility criteria and identified through progressive exclusion of candidate variants in a single case or a small number of heterogeneous cases. Few integrated software systems exist to aide geneticists, and commercially products available are often expensive, based on closed-source algorithms, and have diagnostics criteria that depend strongly on well characterized disorders. The goal of the project is to improve this by putting more powerful, open-source tools for reproducible causal-gene discovery in the hands of Alberta geneticists, meeting a significant unmet need in the Alberta health genomic community.

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