McGill University Genome Canada launched the Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal today to track the evolving COVID-19 pandemic across Canada. Now live, the portal is a much-anticipated pillar in the national data infrastructure that will bolster Canada’s ability to manage the current pandemic-and any future ones-by sharing and resourcing viral genome sequences. This made-in-Canada data solution is one of the key deliverables of the $53 million Variants of Concern Strategy the Government of Canada announced on February 12, 2021 to detect and address COVID-19 variants of concern in Canada. A critical addition to the Canadian COVID-19 Genomics Network‘s (CanCOGeN) efforts, the new national portal enables real-time data sharing and brings together SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences-used to detect, diagnose and anticipate the spread of new variants-and related metadata from the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) and public health labs across the country. It gives Canadian researchers and public health experts a single platform from which to download comprehensive, standardized viral genomics data and allows experts to interact and collaborate with those who generate the data. Genome Canada will serve as the data custodian.