{"id":16674,"date":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/big-data-quebec-stands-out-in-genomics-in-the-fields-of-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T04:00:00","slug":"big-data-quebec-stands-out-in-genomics-in-the-fields-of-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/big-data-quebec-stands-out-in-genomics-in-the-fields-of-bioinformatics-and-computational-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Big data: Qu\u00e9bec stands out in genomics  in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Montr\u00e9al, September 13, 2016<\/strong> &#8211; G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec would like to commend the Qu\u00e9bec research teams for their performance in the 2015 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition (B\/CB) launched by Genome Canada in partnership with the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). In all, four projects were awarded $1 million in funding, representing one-quarter of the total federal envelope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Congratulations to the following researchers and their teams: Fran\u00e7ois Major (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al) and Thomas Duchaine (McGill University), Jesse Shapiro (Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al) and Luis Barreiro (CHU Sainte-Justine), and the team headed by J\u00e9r\u00f4me Waldisp\u00fchl (McGill University) who will undertake two projects, one with Nicolas Moitessier (McGill University) and another with Olivier Tremblay-Savard (University of Manitoba).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results announced today confirm Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s standing as a leader in research and innovation in the era of <em>big\u00a0data<\/em>. &#8220;By strengthening its critical mass and stimulating innovations through data management and analysis, Qu\u00e9bec is giving itself the tools it needs to become a hub of digital entrepreneurship in niches, such as genomics, which offer strong economic potential,&#8221; said Daniel Coderre, President and CEO of G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/DATA\/TEXTEDOC\/2.%20Press%20release%20-%20Results%20B-CB%20competition.pdf\">To read the press release, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montr\u00e9al, September 13, 2016 &#8211; G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec would like to commend the Qu\u00e9bec research teams for their performance in the 2015 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Competition (B\/CB) launched by Genome&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}