Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa

Common Infrastructure for National Cohorts in Europe, Canada, and Africa (CINECA) is an international genetic research initiative based in Hinxton, England.

CINECA has received funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the European Union's Horizon 2020.¹⁾

CINECA's full partners include:

• Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC)
• Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)
• ClinicaGeno
• CSC-IT Center for Science
• Erasmus University Medical Centre
• European Bioinformatics Institute
• Helmholtz Zentrum München
• The Hyve
• Inserm
• Masaryk University
• McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre (MUGQIC)
• SickKids Research Institute
• Simon Fraser University
  • Genomic Epidemiology Ontology (GenEpiO)
• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
• University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG)
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
• University of Cape Town
  • Institute for Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine (IDM)
• University of Tartu

DNAStack is an associate member. CINECA also collaborates with ELIXIR, H3ABioNet and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH).