CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today announced 20 successful recipients of its Research Software funding call, announced in late 2017. This funding will enable research teams in applied sciences and the humanities to adapt their existing research platforms for re-use by other research teams, including those working in different disciplines. As a result, new research teams from across Canada will be able to re-use previously funded and developed software to accelerate discovery.

The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) today announced $800,000 in funding to expand Simon Fraser University’s iReceptor initiative. It is expected that this funding will be part of a Canada/EU flagship project totaling more than $12M Canadian over four years.

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Brian Corrie presented iReceptor in the Life Sciences stream of the 2018 Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) conference in Basel, Switzerland. Like with the ISC Conference, there was a signficant focus on the Life Sciences and the use of Machine Learning in the Life Sciences, including a mini-symposium on "Computational Solutions to Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis Challenges in Personalized Health". 

Brian Corrie presented iReceptor in the Research Poster Session at the European International Conference on High Performance Computing (ISC). There were a number of Life Sciences and Precision/Personalized Medicine sessions at the conference, with a significant focus on the use of Machine Learning in the Life Sciences. These included: