Major innovation axes

Bioinformatics for Health

In September 2018, a working group dedicated to bioinformatics for health data has been created. This working group is led by David Salgado and includes 23 members from various IFB platforms. This working group has several objectives: 

• Report to IFB and to our institutions about activities done in this perimeter.
• Respond to the various solicitations received by IFB with a specific focus on health data, such as participation in meetings, workshops or projects.
• Interact with the national sequencing programme PFMG2025 (Plan France Médecine Génomique 2025). 
• Follow up on the various activities carried out in ELIXIR, particularly in the Human Data, Rare Diseases and Human Copy Number Variation communities.
• Work on a white paper to get an overview of the skills and expertise available at the national level. 

Since its creation, the group has been required to contribute to various activities such as: 

• ELIXIR activities, especially a grant writing for an INFRADEV 3 proposal, and the identification of possible partners for participating in a human federated data IS.
• Representing IFB in a meeting called Journée recherche et santé on the topic Clinical phenotyping and Systems Biology organised by INSERM and Aviesan ITMO Physiopathology, Metabolism and Nutrition. 
• Participation in the INSERM transversal project called Human Development Cell Atlas (HuDeCa).
• Participation in the organisation of an INSERM workshop dedicated to health infrastructures. The goal of this workshop was to make a presentation on the French ecosystem of bioinformatics platforms for human data and health on January 25, 2019 (Claudine Médigue and Jacques van Helden). 
• Coorganisation of  a wide user survey of INSERM laboratories about their needs in bioinformatics (software tools, external bioinformatics services, internal capacity building, training programmes, recruitment policies).