GMI collaborates with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)-funded project, ENGAGE, which envisions to establish collaboration between the public health, food and veterinary sectors across the European Union (EU).
ENGAGE is an acronym for Establishing Next Generation Sequencing Ability for Genomic Analysis in Europe, and aims to build and enhance the use of real-time whole genome sequencing (WGS) and analysis in food safety and public health protection.
GMI collaborates with the COMPARE project. COMPARE is a multidisciplinary research network that envisions a globally linked data and information sharing platform system for the rapid identification, containment and mitigation of emerging infectious diseases and foodborne outbreaks. The system will collect, process and analyze sequence-based pathogen data in combination with associated (clinical, epidemiological and other) data, for the generation of actionable information to relevant authorities and other users in the human health, animal health and food safety domains.
COMPARE is an acronym for Collaborative management platform for detection and analyses of (re-) emerging and foodborne outbreaks in Europe. COMPARE is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 643476.
To ensure involvement and progress in the GMI initiative, we ask everybody, who wishes to participate as an active member in one or more working groups to accept the charter and sign up for membership.
Become a member of GMIGMI envisions a global system of DNA genome databases for microbial and infectious disease identification and diagnostics. Such a system will benefit those tackling individual problems at the frontline, clinicians, veterinarian, etc., as well as policy-makers, regulators, and industry.
By enabling access to this global resource, a professional response on health threats will be within reach of all countries with basic laboratory infrastructure.
