BIRDS, Bioinformatics and Information Retrieval Data Structures Analysis and Design

The overall goal of BIRDS project is to establish a long term international network involving leading researchers in bioinformatics and information retrieval from four different continents, to strengthen the partnership through the exchange of knowledge and expertise, and to develop integrated approaches to improve current ones in both fields. Synergies of researchers from both fields can lead to new efficient approaches to improve the technology used for analysis of genome-scale data. For instance, only by being capable of processing large amounts of biological information will we be able to understand diseases or the development, behavior and evolution of species.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 690941.