FP6 - LSHG-CT-2003-503265 BIOSAPIENS - A European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation

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Type of Project	Network of excellence
Contract No	FP6 - LSHG-CT-2003-503265
Total Cost	KEuro
EC Contribution	KEuro
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Abstract

BioSapiens is a Network of Excellence, funded by the European Union's 6th Framework Programme, and made up of bioinformatics researchers from 25 institutions based in 14 countries throughout Europe.

The objective of the BioSapiens is to provide a large scale, concerted effort to annotate genome data by laboratories distributed around Europe, using both informatics tools and input from experimentalists.

The Network will create a European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation, bringing together many of the best laboratories in Europe. The institute will help to improve bioinformatics research in Europe, by providing a focus for annotation and by the organisation of European meetings and workshops to encourage cooperation, rather than duplication of effort.

An important aspect of the network activities is to try and achieve closer integration between experimentalists and bioinformaticians, through a directed programme of genome analysis, focused on specific biological problems. The annotations generated by the Institute will be available in the public domain and easily accessible on the web. This will be achieved initially through a distributed annotation system (DAS), which will evolve to take advantage of new developments in the GRID.

The Institute will establish a permanent European School of Bioinformatics, to train bioinformaticians and to encourage best practise in the exploitation of genome annotation data for biologists. The courses and meetings will be open to all scientists throughout Europe, and available at all levels, from basic courses for experimentalists to more advanced training for experts.

European scientists have traditionally been very active in the field of protein and genome annotation, and Ensembl and SWISS-PROT (now part of UniProt) are the primary resources in use worldwide. Many of the tools used in genome and protein sequence and structure annotation, prediction and validation, and pathway analysis have been developed in Europe. The BioSapiens NoE will further increase European competitiveness, by new discoveries, increased integration, expert training and improved tools and services, and enhance Europe's role in the academic and industrial exploitation of genomics.

Coordinator

European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Partners

• European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany.
• German National Centre for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Münich, Germany
• Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
• Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid, Spain
• Institut Municipal d'Assistència Sanitària, Barcelona, Spain
• Genome Research Ltd, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.
• Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Girat Ram, Israel
• Department of Biochemical Sciences University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
• University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
• University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• University College London, London, UK.
• Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland
• Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
• University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
• University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
• Institute of Enzymology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
• Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
• BioInfo Bank Institute, Poznan, Poland
• Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
• Genoscope, Evry, France
• University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Contacts

Contact

• Kerstin NYBERG / EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute Wellcome Trust Genome Campus / UNITED KINGDOM