Breakout session
Bioinformatics & Systems Biology: Joining Forces?
October 27, 13:45-15:15
Organizers: Aalt-Jan van Dijk & Eva Deinum (WUR)
Let's start with the name of our society: BioSB: bioinformatics and Systems Biology. Joining the two fields seems intuitive, as both attract people who investigate biological systems.
In practice, however, most research teams are either/or. Why are we not collaborating more? What could we gain from joining forces: using bioinformatics, i.e., data-driven approaches, to identify pathways, gene regulatory networks, etc and systems biology or model-driven approaches to test whether and how these function, or, perhaps, discover that crucial links are missing -- and guide the next analysis?
In addition, an important issue to consider is how ongoing technological developments which result in ever increasing amounts of data (e.g. single-cell RNA-seq) impact the options and the need for collaboration?
Objectives of the session
- Get inspired by exciting examples of fruitful collaboration between the two fields;
- Pinpoint bottlenecks that currently limit the cooperation between researchers from both fields;
- Identify most promising areas for combining bioinformatics and systems biology;
- Meet partners for a future collaboration at the interface between bioinformatics and systems biology.
Target audience
Researchers who are interested in combining data-driven bioinformatics and model-driven systems biology approaches to better understand their biological system.
BioSB 2020
Registration website for BioSB 2020BioSB 2020femke.francissen@biosb.nl
BioSB 2020femke.francissen@biosb.nlhttps://www.aanmelder.nl/biosb2020
2020-10-26
2020-10-28
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BioSB 2020BioSB 20200.00EUROnlineOnly2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
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