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It is a computer tool developed by the Sadosky Foundation dependent on the MINCyT which allows contrasting genetic profiles from biological samples obtained at different crime scenes.With the objective of joining the national registry of forensic genetic data administered by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of the Nation the province of Catamarca approved the adoption of the GENis computer system. The province of NOA thus joins the set of 18 jurisdictions that also adhered to the software developed by a public-private consortium headed by the Sadosky Foundation.The Minister of Science Technology and Innovation and president of the Sadosky Foundation Roberto Salvarezza and the Minister of Science and Technological Innovation of the northern jurisdiction Eugenia Rosales digitally signed the framework cooperation agreement and the complementary act that will allow the improvement the free transfer of the tool to various local institutions. In view of this possibility the local government decided to immediately transfer the tool to the Supreme Court of Justice of the province the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of Health.Minister Salvarezza pointed out that one of the objectives of his administration is to be able to federalize science and work with the different jurisdictions. We had a complex year in which we had to focus on the pandemic but to the extent that we can overcome it we will be working on multiple science and technology issues with Catamarca because there is a lot to do. The transfer of GENis software is just the beginning of a relationship with the province that will be very intense and with a lot of exchange .In turn Minister Rosales highlighted the joint work with the MINCyT and considered that the adoption of the GENis is a very important fact for the province as it will be a fundamental tool for the investigation of different crimes . The executive director of the Sadosky Foundation Esteban Feuerstein explained that the GENis software was born with a federal vocation and had public-private academic and engineering participation. Since its inception based on a request from the attorneys across the country GENis has always been developed with a completely federal vision .With the signing of the agreement details of the training program in the use and administration of the software and a possible roadmap for the interconnection with the national registry of forensic genetic data were referred. It aims to complete all interconnections during the second quarter of the year.The secretary of Science and Technology of the province of Catamarca Juan Tejeda and the technical coordinator of the GENis Project Soledad Escobar also participated in the virtual meeting.About GENisThe GENis software has been developed entirely in Argentina from a joint effort between the Sadosky Foundation dependent on the Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation of the Nation the Argentine Society of Forensic Genetics the Council of Attorneys Prosecutors Defenders and General Advisors of the Argentine Republic the Federal Council for Criminal Policy the Federal Board of Courts and Superior Courts of the Argentine provinces and CABA the Argentine Association of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology CONICET and several national universities. It was designed as a computer tool that allows to contrast genetic profiles from biological samples obtained in different crime scenes thus linking events that occurred in different time and place.
