Breakthrough gene expression search engine for cost reduction and significantly increased use of open data in drug discovery.

Projektinformationen

XPRESSO

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 673405

DOI

10.3030/673405

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 27 April 2015

Startdatum 1 Mai 2015

Enddatum 31 Oktober 2015

Finanziert unter

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Gesamtkosten

€ 71 429,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 50 000,00

Koordiniert durch

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY GROUP OU
Estonia

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

Zusammenfassung vom Kontext und den Gesamtzielen des Projekts

During the Phase 1 innovation project we assessed the commercial potential of an advanced gene expression search engine. We can see that the service can bring about a shift in information retrieval in life sciences through pre-analyzed public data. We conducted a survey among potential users and received valuable feedback about the type of solution that they would want to use.

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.

Arbeit, die ab Beginn des Projekts bis zum Ende des durch den Bericht erfassten Berichtszeitraums geleistet wurde, und die wichtigsten bis dahin erzielten Ergebnisse

* End user survey to learn about feedback to the proposed search engine.
* 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).

Fortschritte, die über den aktuellen Stand der Technik hinausgehen und voraussichtliche potenzielle Auswirkungen (einschließlich der bis dato erzielten sozioökonomischen Auswirkungen und weiter gefassten gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen des Projekts)

During the course of the project we verified that our proposed solution has impact because it allows scientists and researchers to interpret previous experiment results, which paves way for new discoveries. Users appreciate the value in finding experiments that affect the expression of the gene they are researching. This has positive impacts on increasing the likelihood of success in research experiments and as such has a positive impact on the medical research community.

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