The Open Genome Informatics group represents an umbrella organization consisting of several open source and open access genomics and bioinformatics projects worldwide. Our goals are to develop and maintain a collection of sustainable software tools for managing, analyzing, visualizing, storing, and disseminating genomic data.
Contributors in 2026
3
Not in 2025
Projects since 2016
31
4.4 a cycle on average
Cycles
7 of 11
First in 2016
Rank in 2026
#119
of 183, 0.3% of slots
Mentors
1
for 1 project in 2023
Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year
| Open Genome Informatics | Median organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | 4 |
| 2017 | 8 | 4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 4 |
| 2020 | 5 | 4 |
| 2021 | 6 | 4 |
| 2022 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 | 3 | 4 |
Each one has its own page of organizations and trends
Technologies
# Topics
3 projects in 2026 · All 31 projects since 2016
Chryseis Xinyi Liu
MP-BioPath uses rigorous mathematical programming to predict exactly how genetic mutations or drug perturbations cascade through Reactome's...
M4x
Parents and caregivers increasingly turn to social media for pediatric ENT advice, where misinformation about conditions like ear infections and...
Mohamed Amine Haouas
Cancer patients navigating clinical trial databases face complex search interfaces with dozens of technical filters, making it difficult to find...
sskrishnMentored by adamjohnwright
Currently, at the Ontario Institute of Cancer Research, Jenkins is being used to run the release pipelines and this project proposes moving the...
AsankaMentored by Robin Haw, adamjohnwright, Joel Weiser
In Reactome, once the new data is released, preceding data will be archived in an AWS S3 bucket. Now they don't have a web interface for users to...
ModeEricMentored by Robin Haw, adamjohnwright, Joel Weiser
This project entails the creation of the MP-BioPath tool into the FI Viz Cytoscape Plugin. Biological pathways model the set of actions that...
Lovro VrcekMentored by Nasim Sanati, Solomon Shorser
In the last several years, deep learning became widely used in various different fields, ranging from object detection and face recognition to speech...
Lokesh RanaMentored by Shraddha Pai
This GSoC project proposes to create the UI side of a network-based hierarchical viewer to visualize gene annotation at various levels of systems...
Rishabh kohaleMentored by Shraddha Pai
Genomic assays generate lists of genes or proteins statistically associated with a condition, such as being altered in disease. Genes need to be...
PrajnaMentored by Paulo Nuin, Sibyl Gao
For an open-source tool for bioinformatics like WormBase, it is essential to have thorough documentation of features and use cases. As part of this...
Aoji XieMentored by Adam Wright
The Alliance of Genome Resources is a consortium of 6 model organism databases (MODs) and the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium whose goal is to provide...
Joao LuizMentored by Nasim Sanati, Solomon Shorser
Single-Cell sequencing is a new methodology that provides high-resolution data to understand individual cells. Applied to RNA sequencing, it can...
Andra VasilacheMentored by Garrett Stevens, Robert Buels
This project aims to integrate Ensembl VEP into the developing JBrowse 2. For this to happen, every component feature of this project must be...
Chi Lam PoonMentored by Solomon Shorser, robinhaw, jdw2020 +1
R has been extensively used in bioinformatics research. However, there is still no direct way to obtain Reactome’s information in R. This project...
Shreya SrivastavaMentored by Colin, Robert Buels
It is a Phylogenetic tree viewer for the JBrowse 2 in the most dynamic way possible. With the help of Reactjs, it will be much more efficient than...
Pratik LodhaMentored by Solomon Shorser, robinhaw, jdw2020 +1
Reactome currently uses a REST-based API that allows end-users to obtain specific data from a set of predefined end-points. To provide better...
Hitonari SatoMentored by sibyl229, Juancarlos Chan
WormBase is a comprehensive research knowledge base on the genetics, genomics and biology of C. elegans and related nematodes. Biologists access...
Leonardo KuffoMentored by Daniela Butano
The InterMine Registry will allow users to obtain and search, by consuming a RESTful API, basic information about existing InterMine instances. This...
Samyadeep BasuMentored by Joshua Heimbach
InterMine is a large graph containing entities(Genes, Transcription Factors etc. ) with important relationships between them. The main aim of the...
yasharmasterMentored by Sam Hokin, Daniela Butano
Description InterMine is an open source data warehouse which is used to store complex biological data. It is currently using PostgreSQL as the...
Ayushya ChitranshMentored by Joel Weiser, Solomon Shorser
The goal of this project is to produce a Docker image that contains everything that an end-user needs to run Reactome on his/her own workstation....
Konstantinos KyritsisMentored by Julie Sullivan, Rachel Lyne
InterMine constitutes a data warehouse framework, which provides the ability to access, retrieve and analyze rapidly a variety of biological data...
Nadezda YudinaMentored by Yo Yehudi
InterMine has an Android application and is looking to make it available on iOS as well. Native iOS application will allow researchers to have access...
aniarya82Mentored by Yannick Wurm, priyam
The primary goal of the project is to upgrade Afra's annotation editing code, to provide it performance upgrade. Afra's annotation editor is built...
Alan ClearyMentored by adf_ncgr
With the number of sequenced and annotated genomes continuously increasing, there is a need for new algorithms and tools for comparative analyses...
krassowskiMentored by reimand
I have wrote a set of thoughts expanding the original proposal "Interactive visualisation framework for genome mutations in gene and protein...
Varun Shankar SMentored by osallou, Dannon, ylebras +1
Go-Docker is a cluster management tool using Docker as execution/isolation system. It can be seen like Sun Grid Engine/Torque/… Using Bioinformatics...
ulimMentored by briandoconnor
With the development of software container technology, developers can manage and deploy their software effectively. The software can start up and run...
Pubudu DodangodaMentored by Ian Holmes
This project will deliver a lightweight socializing plugin for JBrowse using OAuth2 and the Faye pub/sub framework. Users will be able to chat, share...
Samyadeep BasuMentored by spficklin
The proposed project deals with the development of two Drupal modules, for storage and visualizations of Complex Biological Graph. Both the proposed...
aniaryaMentored by Yannick Wurm, priyam
Build a Standalone library / tool to visualise the BLAST results. This tool will be build on Ruby as command line tool. Types of visualisation ...
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