Project

Novel knowledge from public life sciences data

Code
W005325N
Duration
01 January 2025 → 31 December 2029
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor-spokesperson
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Biostatistics, statistical methodology in epidemiology and public health
    • Bioinformatics data integration and network biology
    • Computational biomodelling and machine learning
    • Development of bioinformatics software, tools and databases
    • Structural bioinformatics and computational proteomics
    • Metabolomics
Keywords
Bio-informatics public data open science Biostatistics computational proteomics computational metabolomics
 
Project description

The main scientific objectives of this Flanders-anchored, but also strongly multi-national Scientific Research Community are (i) to perform large-scale mining and analysis of public life sciences data in proteomics and metabolomics, (ii) to develop new ways to visualise and disseminate the results, and (iii) to connect and integrate these data into multi-omics knowledgebases to provide context and uncover functional biological relevance. Final outcomes will be jointly organized events, joint grant applications, joint papers, and, notably, reliable, easy-to-use online knowledgebases (in line with the many resources we have jointly developed in our preceding Research Networks so far) that can be freely accessed by any interested life sciences researchers. Importantly, this network will benefit the Flemish research groups, and in turn the Flemish scientific community, by continuing the leading role that Flanders plays in this overall domain, and by actively promoting it as the most attractive region in the world for ambitious and talented PhD students and postdocs, both local and international, to further their careers.