About Us

OBiBa was founded in 2007 as a research project of Génome Québec. Shortly thereafter, OBiBa became a core project of P3G. OBiBa works in close collaboration with P3G and its other partners.

Principal Investigators

OBiBa’s principal investigators are:

• Vincent Ferretti, Co-investigator of P3G; Principal Investigator and Senior Scientist at Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
• Philippe Laflamme, Software Architect at Génome Québec
• Paul White, Australian Informatics Resource, University of Western Australia

Development Teams

The three teams listed below are developing OBiBa software.

• Genome Quebec Team. This team is developing GenoByte.
• Onyx/Opal Team. This team is developing two software applications for OBiBa: Onyx and Opal. Part of the team is in Toronto and part is in Montreal.The team is populated with individuals on loan from four of OBiBa’s partners: the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), P3G, Génome Québec, and CARTaGENE.
• Australian Informatics Resource (AIR). AIR is part of the University of Western Australia, in Perth. This group is developing the Enrollment and Tracking Application (ETA).

If you are interested in developing software for OBiBa, see the Developers section of this site.