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 Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
• Paul White, The Ark, 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 currently developing two software applications for OBiBa: Onyx and Opal. The team is populated with individuals from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) and P3G.
• The Ark. This team is part of the University of Western Australia, in Perth. This group is developing the Participant Management Application .

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