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Illuminating Microbial Dark Matter through Data Science

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Illuminating Microbial Dark Matter through Data Science

Microbial communities play a vital role in most processes in the biosphere and are essential for solving numerous challenges, incl. developing new antibiotics. In this project, researchers work to develop new methods and approaches that enable access and analysis of microbial dark matter and their interaction with the environment.

Project

Illuminating Microbial Dark Matter through Data Science

Microbial communities play a vital role in most processes in the biosphere and are essential for solving numerous challenges, incl. developing new antibiotics. In this project, researchers work to develop new methods and approaches that enable access and analysis of microbial dark matter and their interaction with the environment.

Together with colleagues, resear­chers from CS have demonstrated how the integration of long-read DNA sequencing and graph-based deep learning can go beyond the current state of the art in bacterial genome recovery and metagenomic binning. In this project, the researchers continue this work and develop technologies to integrate external data, provide no­vel analyses, and support microbi­al genome data and metagenomic binning at an unprecedented scale.

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About Illuminating Microbial Dark Matter through Data Science
The project is funded by VILLUM FOUNDATION
Partners
  • Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University
  • Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University
Project period
2023-2027
Website
https://darkmatter.aau.dk/
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New project will open the door to the secret world of bacteria