The projects

The Advanced Bioinformatics for Biological Applications (ABBA, €1.6 million) project aims to complement the IT equipment funded by the PIA3 MUDIS4LS project.

Antibiotic resistance, i.e. the ability of bacteria to resist antibiotic treatments, is a major global health problem. Faced with this challenge, the ABRomics project, co-led by the IFB and the Institut Pasteur, and supported by the PPR Antibiotic Resistance, is dedicated to the development of an online community platform to strengthen surveillance and research on antibiotic resistance, as part of a One Health approach.

The field of genomics has undergone a major revolution over the past 20 years, providing new insights into the biological and biochemical diversity of life. The declining cost of DNA sequencing has enabled the launch of ambitious new analysis programs and the discovery of new biological species. In the field of marine science, exploring diversity represents a major challenge, as only about 10% of marine species are known and only about 100 high-quality genomes of marine organisms have been made available to the scientific community.

The Cloud4SAMS targeted project aims to deploy a distributed digital infrastructure enabling researchers to exploit microbiome and health data in a secure computing environment. The PEPR SAMS is coordinated by Inserm and INRAE, and the Cloud4SAMS project is led by IFB-core. This project draws on the expertise of INRIA for the computing aspects, and of several Inserm, INRAE, and university laboratories for the production, analysis, and interpretation of microbiome data.

Galaxy-BioProd's objective is to provide generic and shared tools and resources to design, execute and monitor projects in the various areas of the PEPR B-BEST. To this end, a centralized portal is being developed, bringing together software tools as well as computing and storage resources, in order to share and disseminate data and analyses from the PEPR.

Ferments du Future is a public-private partnership built to accelerate research and innovation in ferments, fermented foods and biopreservation, thereby promoting sustainable and healthy food.

The MUDIS4LS project, funded under the EQUIPEX+ (PIA4) program, is deploying a shared national computing and storage infrastructure for 22 IFB platforms. It facilitates the secure management and sharing of data throughout life sciences research projects, while promoting their dissemination in national and international repositories.

The NEUROVASC project aims to establish an optimal digital ecosystem to develop predictive tools/models for 5P medicine (personalized, predictive, preventive, participatory, population-based) against the evolution of ICA and stroke, relying mainly on the distinctive resources developed by the French clinical network in neuroradiology.

Under the supervision of the CNRS, INRAE, CEA and Inserm, the National Institute of Bioinformatics - IFB (formerly Renabi-IFB) is a national research infrastructure for the life sciences communities and the French node of ELIXIR. The IFB's activities are coordinated by the IFB-Core Support and Research Unit (UAR CNRS 3601). It offers bioinformatics services (computing and storage, software development and deployment, knowledge bases, data management, project support), organizes training and participates in methodological innovation in this field of research. It brings together 21 member platforms, 7 contributing platforms and 8 associated teams which cover all areas of bioinformatics and all thematic areas of fundamental biology and its applications (health, environment, agronomy).