Launch of E-Biothon, a networked platform for the acceleration and advancement of bioinformatics research
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
France has always been at the forefront of medical research, particularly as regards major "epidemics" and pathologies of our time such as AIDS, cancer and diabetes. The genetic and proteomic analysis of viruses or of patients appears to play an increasing role in helping to develop new treatments. Recent technological advances, such as high-throughput sequencers, enable biology researchers to have access to massive amounts of raw data (petabytes of data are generated every year) on the composition of viruses, bacteria and the human species. Analyzing this data to make sense of it is a daunting task that requires huge computer processing capacity.