Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: Essential Open Source Software for Science
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) has awarded an Essential Open Source Software for Science grant to Associate Professor Torsten Seemann, Lead Bioinformatician at the Centre for Pathogen Genomics, Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne. The USD$260,000 grant will fund two years of development for Snippy, an open-source tool designed to rapidly identify genetic differences between bacterial genomes.
The grant will enable Snippy to support the latest genome sequencing technologies, extending its reach to viral and fungal pathogens. According to Associate Professor Seemann, Snippy urgently requires this upgrade to continue serving the global microbial genomics community.