Acronym
Epigenomics
Code
01Z00811
Duration
01 February 2011 → 31 January 2021
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Bioinformatics of disease
- Computational transcriptomics and epigenomics
- Development of bioinformatics software, tools and databases
Keywords
Epigenomics
Epigenetics
Transcriptomics
Bioinformatics
Project description
Epigenetics is essential to cellular differentiation, but also allows organisms to better adapt to their environment. This flexibility is however abused in diseases such as cancer, and also leaves an evolutionary signature in our DNA with potentially farreaching consequences. In this BOF-ZAP, genome-wide studies are being performed into epigenetics ("epigenomics"), but also on its impact on gene expression ("transcriptomics"), to chart both the advantages and disadvantages of epigenetics. If necessary, this entail the development of novel data-analytical methods.