MICROB3

Micro B3 has its roots in the 6 FP NEST (New Emerging Science and Technology) project MetaFunctions coordinated by MPIMM from 2005 to 2008. Already in this project the objective was to use data integration and make use of the emerging molecular datasets in the marine system to find new processes and enzymes. Although from the technological point very successful at this time, the limited amount of quality controlled and standardized sequence data and particularly contextual data (environmental parameters) led to a limited amount of additional knowledge on the marine ecosystem. It was only with the implementation of the Networks of Excellence (NoEs), Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystems Functioning (MarBef) and Marine Genomics Europe (MGE) that a larger community of marine researchers could be involved to further develop the idea of large-scale data integration in the marine system raising the need for specific bioinformatic capacities tailored for the marine community. Participation in..

Primary location: Monaco