How can nutritionists use and learn from ‘big data’?

In a unique collaboration the Nutrition Society has teamed up with the European Bioinformatics Institute to offer nutrition scientists and researchers a new workshop to understand how to access the huge databases provided by the EBI.  The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is Europe's hub for big data in biology. EMBL-EBI was established in 1994 on the Genome Campus, Cambridge, UK, and is part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). What is Bioinformatics? Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the storage, management and analysis of data from life science experiments. One of the biggest challenges in biology today is analysing the massive volumes of data created in “high-throughput” experiments, for example DNA sequencing. Bioinformatics makes it possible to extract meaningful information from a sea of data. It provides the means to pull together many different kinds of information so that we can begin piecing together the great puzzle of how biological systems work.  Janet Thornton, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute says: “The EBI is like a treasure trove of data. Here we store, we curate, we send out and distribute all the biological data for the world. People send us their data, we curate it, we look after it, and we distribute it back to them so that it can empower their research.”  More on video here. Many nutrition scientists and researchers today need access to large data sets of many different ty...
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