VariantWire Adds New Members to its Data-Sharing Network

The GeneInsight-powered platform advances molecular informatics initiatives

TUSCON, Ariz. – Sunquest Information Systems Inc. today announced that Nationwide Children’s Hospital Institute for Genomic Medicine Clinical Laboratory, MedComp Sciences and the University of Minnesota Health Fairview are now members of the VariantWire® data sharing initiative. GeneInsight®, a Sunquest company, supports the VariantWire networking infrastructure and crowdsourcing platform, which provides real-time sharing of structured genetic data between laboratories.

VariantWire offers clinical laboratories across the U.S. and Canada the opportunity to access information that can ultimately help to advance the field of personalized medicine. It is a “share and share alike” initiative that allows users of the GeneInsight IT platform to share variant information.

“We recognize how important collaboration and sharing are to provide exceptional care to our patients, and exceptional training opportunities to our

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