December 2015
Karina Toledo| Agência Fapesp
Iscia Lopes-Cendes at the ceremony held to launch the platform developed by the Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine (BIPMed), an effort promoted by members of five research centers supported by FAPESP (photo: Leandro Negro / Agência FAPESP)
Latin America’s first public human genome database went online on November 13 and can be accessed free of charge at bipmed.iqm.unicamp.br.
The virtual environment is open both to scientists who wish to query the data, covering genes, transcripts and genomic variants so far, and to anyone who wants to upload data from their own research.
“This is the first product launched by BIPMed, the Brazilian Initiative on Precision Medicine, a venture that aims to create the conditions for implementation of precision medicine in Brazil,” said Iscia Lopes-Cendes, a professor at the University of Campinas’s School of Medical Sciences (FCM-UNICAMP) and one of the project’s creators. Read the full story
