HUBI · Hungarian Bioinformatics
FP6 — Marie Curie Actions (Human Resources and Mobility)
- Duration
- 2006-10-01 → 2010-09-30
- EU contribution
- €551,174
- Participants
- 5
- Scheme
- TOK
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Results in brief
Final Activity Report Summary - HUBI (Hungarian Bioinformatics)
The main goals of this project were to establish a strong and diverse bioinformatics centre in Central Europe, to catalyse collaborations between mathematicians and biologist lab researchers, doctors and physicists, engineers and computer scientists and to integrate the Rényi Institute into the network of the developed European bioinformatics centres. We wanted to invite experts of several sub-disciplines in bioinformatics including but not limited to phylogenetic trees and networks, protein structure prediction, string processing algorithms and biological motif finding, modelling the molecular evolution events like substitutions, insertions-deletions, genome rearrangements, gene finding and genome annotation, DNA microarrays and Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques in bioinformatics. During the project period, 29 researchers were invited to the Renyi Institute, and 4 researchers were seconded to foreign institutes for a time period varying between 2 and 6 months. Above the incoming and outgoing visits, we organised a lecture series, 3 workshops and one conference, and also attended to several conferences. We published 19 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and 2 papers in peer-reviewed conference proceedings. The total number of participants attended to the workshops and conference we organised were more than 200. The number of scientific talks the invited speakers and we gave were over 80. The informal discussions were as important as the formal talks, and numerous collaborations have been initiated during these discussions.
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Project objective
The main goals of this proposal are to establish a strong and diverse bioinformatics centre in Central Europe, catalysing collaborations between mathematicians, biologists, doctors and physicists, engineers and computer scientists and to integrate the Renyi Institute into the network of the European bioinformatics centres. As one of the central goals of the forthcoming FP7 is to improve Europe's competitiveness with the overwhelming Japanese and US bioinformatics research, it conforms very well with the European main research trends. Bioinformatics and its core component, computational biology are interesting new interdisciplinary, quickly developing research areas based on discrete mathematical methods, rather than the well-known classical analytical tools of mathematical biology.The mathematical part of bioinformatics involves parts of probability theory and statistics, which is traditionally very strong at the Renyi Institute, as well as combinatorics, in which the Institute is considered to be one of the leading scientific schools in the world. Some researchers of the Institute has already started working on bioinformatics and related topics including mathematical immunology, the application of transformational grammars in biological structure prediction, phylogenetic tree inferring, stochastic modelling of insertions and deletions, and algorithmical and statistical properties of bioinformatics methods. Realizing the significance of bioinformatics research, the Institute has initiated an informal bioinformatics research centre/group (including biologists, physicians, computer scientists and mathematicians) a few years ago, which serves as the core of the recent proposal.
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Participants
- ALFRED RENYI INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS - HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES · BUDAPESTCoordinatorHungary
- BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY · BIELEFELDGermany
- EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE · CAMBRIDGECity levelUnited Kingdom
- UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · NORWICHUnited Kingdom
- UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA · WIENAustria
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