Biele­feld In­sti­tute for Bioin­for­mat­ics In­fra­struc­ture

Pow­er­ful Al­liance for the Life Sci­ences

The In­for­ma­tion Cen­tre for Life Sci­ences (ZB MED) in Cologne fol­lows a long tra­di­tion of li­cens­ing and de­liv­er­ing sci­en­tific jour­nal ar­ti­cles and schol­arly books to re­searchers in Med­i­cine, agri­cul­tural sci­ences (sub­sidiary lo­cated at the Uni­ver­sity of Bonn) and life sci­ences in gen­eral. The trans­for­ma­tion of the sci­en­tific jour­nals to­wards dig­i­tal and open ac­cess pub­li­ca­tions and in the same way in re­cent years for schol­arly books have changed the com­mu­nity in­volve­ment of ZB MED and is lead­ing to a port­fo­lio of ser­vices that sup­port dig­i­tal de­liv­ery of con­tent. These de­vel­op­ments are well aligned with the col­lec­tion and de­liv­ery of dig­i­tal data from the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity to the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity, which re­quires an IT In­fra­struc­ture and forms the next gen­er­a­tion of in­for­ma­tion de­liv­ery.

The Biele­feld In­sti­tute for Bioin­for­mat­ics In­fra­struc­ture (BIBI) and ZB MED in Cologne form a strate­gic al­liance, since both in­sti­tutes de­liver IT ser­vices into the sci­en­tific com­mu­nity in the life sci­ences and pro­vide com­ple­men­tary so­lu­tions that com­plete each other’s port­fo­lio of so­lu­tions. Whereas ZB MED is fo­cused on the de­liv­ery of con­tent, BIBI ad­vances cloud-​based an­a­lyt­i­cal so­lu­tions for the life sci­ences that can make ef­fi­cient use of the con­tent avail­able at ZB MED. Both make use of large-​scale IT in­fra­struc­ture, how­ever ZB MED en­riches its con­tent with se­man­tics tech­nolo­gies whereas BIBI analy­ses large sets of OMICS data, e.g., for bio­med­ical re­search.

 

Re­searchers from BIBI and ZB MED are well es­tab­lished in the life sci­ence re­search com­mu­nity, in bioin­for­mat­ics as well as med­ical in­for­mat­ics and agri­cul­tural re­search.

Sci­en­tif­i­cally they can cover the full range of com­puter sci­ence, bioin­for­mat­ics, med­ical in­for­mat­ics, se­man­tics tech­nolo­gies, e.g., gen­er­a­tion and use of ter­mi­nolo­gies and on­tolo­gies, and ma­chine learn­ing (in­clud­ing deep learn­ing and AI). To­gether they pro­vide so­lu­tions that cover the com­plete re­search life cycle of life sci­ence re­search: a unique com­bi­na­tion of lit­er­a­ture and in­for­ma­tion sup­ply in­clud­ing com­pu­ta­tional analy­sis of big data. This en­ables new sci­en­tific in­sights for re­searchers of all life sci­ence dis­ci­plines as well as bioin­for­mat­ics.

BIBI in­tro­duces mod­ern in­fra­struc­tures and ad­di­tional bioin­for­mat­ics ex­per­tise into the broad reper­toire of ZB MED. The strate­gic al­liance of ZB MED and BIBI im­ple­ments nu­mer­ous new ser­vices: bioin­for­mat­ics com­pute so­lu­tions, cloud com­put­ing, data sci­ence train­ing, and the grad­u­ate school “Dig­i­tal In­fra­struc­ture for the Life Sci­ences” (DILS).