DNAnexus Platform - Collaborate

The DNAnexus Platform Collaborate module is designed to make precision health data findable, accessible, and shareable — both within organizations and across global research networks — without compromising security or compliance. It is built for life sciences teams, including researchers, data scientists, and non-technical users, who need to work together on omics, imaging, and phenotypic datasets at scale while meeting data sovereignty requirements.

By providing a unified, cloud-based environment for sharing data, tools, analyses, and JupyterLab notebooks, DNAnexus enables collaborative exploration and discovery across internal teams and external partners alike. The platform has been adopted by leading organizations such as City of Hope and Myriad Genetics to power next-generation precision medicine and oncology research initiatives.

Internal Collaboration Capabilities

• Centralize data and control sharing: Provides a single internal repository for omics, imaging, and phenotypic datasets, governed with robust access management and data sharing controls to serve as a single source of truth across the enterprise.
• Enable non-technical users: Fosters broader collaboration and increases adoption of tools and pipelines by allowing non-technical users to work directly with data and standardize analysis workflows across the organization.
• Customize internal data portals: Teams can present a custom portal with configurable widgets to showcase specific content, such as key datasets, analysis tools, or documentation, tailored to the needs of different business units.

External Collaboration and Data Sharing

• Share precision health data, tools, analyses, and JupyterLab notebooks efficiently with local and global collaborators.
• Manage access, security, and compliance with data sovereignty requirements when sharing data externally.
• Access diverse biomedical datasets from external and public data sources to enrich internal research programs.

Real-World Applications

• City of Hope – POSEIDON: DNAnexus partnered with City of Hope to build POSEIDON (Precision Oncology Software Environment Interoperable Data Ontologies Network), a cloud-based platform that enables exploration, analysis, and visualization of deidentified clinicogenomic data from patients and public sources. POSEIDON supports drug development, research ideation, clinical trial matching, and tumor board decision support.
• Myriad Genetics – Precise Treatment Registry: In collaboration with DNAnexus, Myriad Genetics pioneered the Myriad Precise Treatment Registry to address key challenges in sharing large-scale clinicogenomic data, supporting the advancement of precision medicine and increasing the clinical value of genetic tests.

The DNAnexus Collaborate module is deployed as part of a broader cloud-based platform, enabling organizations across diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, health systems, government biobanks, and other life sciences sectors to break down data silos, foster cross-functional collaboration, and accelerate precision health discoveries at a global scale.