Why is BIOMINA relevant?
High-throughput bio-analytical instruments generate an immense data flow.
Translating this data into interpretable insights about the underlying processes of life and disease is increasingly dependent on bioinformatics techniques.
Consider a medical research question, based on the observation that a subset of patients who underwent organ transplantation suffer from acute rejection.
A research project is set up in which the goal is to detect early biomarkers associated with the occurrence of rejection. For this purpose, extensive datasets can be generated from a cohort of patients using for example DNA or RNA sequencing approaches.
Before these data leads to new insights, the data need to be processed with bioinformatics techniques. These are specific data transformation and analysis techniques, using specialized software, databases, algorithms and artificial intelligence, that transform these highly complex data into actionable and / or interpretable insights (such as a set of biomarkers).
The high degree of specialization at the interface of life sciences and computer sciences usually requires collaboration with experts. BIOMINA brings together the research teams that have such much-needed expertise with the ambition to offer it to life scientists, through a set of specifically tailored services.
