Overview
OBiBa is an open source project whose aim is to build an open software infrastructure on which biobanks around the world can depend and to which they can contribute. To know more, see our vision.
OBiBa is member of the Public Population Project in Genomics Consortium (P3G) and is currently one of its core projects.
OBiBa is receiving significant support and funding from three major partners: Génome Québec, Cancer Care Ontario and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research. The main objective of this consortium, called the Obiba Consortium, is to develop an open source biobank information management system for five large Canadian prospective studies supported by the Canadian Partnership against Cancer (CPAC). This CPAC network of biobanks aims to collect longitudinal epidemiological data and bio-samples on 300 000 Canadians and create a unique federated research platform on cancer and other chronic diseases.
Software packages are currently developed by a team of 8 developers (programmers, software architect and business analyst) and will be progressively implemented in 2009 by the CPAC cohorts. All the source code is freely available to the biobanking community under GPL3 licence. To know more about the CPAC project, see this section.
A team of bioinformaticians at the McGill University and Genome Quebec Center is also working on a high performing Java API called GenoByte for storing and analysing billions of genotypes produced by high-throughput technologies. More information and source code are available here.
If you are interested in getting involved in those projects, please join our mailing list. To ask specific questions about a project, please write to info@obiba.org
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Events & News
News New Release: Presentation- OICR Annual Scientific Meeting 2009
- Onyx
- Philadelphia P3G meeting Nov 2008
- OBiBa BIMS