Periodic Reporting for period 1 - XPRESSO (Breakthrough gene expression search engine for cost reduction and significantly increased use of open data in drug discovery.)
Berichtszeitraum: 2015-05-01 bis 2015-10-31
From the feedback we understood that among the users there was a need for an easy to use tool that could encompass large amounts of good quality data. In addition the usability of such a tool plays an important part in usage adoption.
In addition we attended several meetings with people form the biomedical industry and learned that the ability to normalize heterogeneous data and make it available for analysis is an important aspect when dealing with -omics data. As such we analyzed publicly available datasets and determined the ones, which could add value for the potential users of the solution.
* Produced feasibility analysis and business plan.
* Met with biomedical industry players and learned about the importance of including various data sources to benefit the biomedical research community.
* Received coaching from an industry expert and set out a plan for tailoring the solution for potential institutional customers (i.e. research labs, pharmaceutical and biotech companies).