To the question of the digital platform “bioinformatics” creating and its system-forming solutions

Abstract

The article reports the main provisions of the concept and solutions for creating the digital platform in the field of bioinformatics and the formation of the thematically oriented and industrial digital ecosystems on its basis. The composition and structure of the digital platform are discussed: information repositories, data and knowledge bases, thematically oriented software repository, task-oriented services for various target groups of users. Within the framework of the platform, it is also planned to organize a system of high-quality access to specialized data centres and high-performance computing infrastructure. Particular attention is devoted to one of the components of such platform - the project office for bioresource collections management. The project office has registered such types of collections as animal collections: wild and laboratory animals, live breeding, museum zoological animal collections, farm animals; plant collections: herbarium funds of plants biological diversity, living collections of natural flora, agricultural plants. Collection types such as collections of human biomaterials, cell culture collections, microorganism collections are important for medical research.

BGRS: bioinformatics of genome regulation and data integration

“…We have published papers on such tools following the rise of high-throughput sequencing technologies and corresponding growth of the experimental data [ 7 , 8 ]. Integration of the bioinformatics resources and databases, standardization of data exchange became separate bioinformatics field [ 9 , 10 ]. Contemporary machine learning and Big Data analysis methods serve to solve the same problems of gene expression regulation in much larger scale [ 4 , 11 , 12 ].…”

Bioinformatics of genome regulation and structure – 2020 papers collection

“…This issue of the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics presents recent work discussed at the BGRS\SB-2020 (Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure\Systems Biology) conference held in Novosibirsk, Russia ( https://bgrssb.icgbio.ru/2020/ ). Here we collated a number of cancer gene expression studies [ 3 ], [ 4 ], as well as database development reports [ 5 ], [ 6 ]. The BGRS conference series on bioinformatics proceeds annually since 1998 under the joint steerage of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University [ 7 ], [ 8 ].…”

“…The Systems Biology and Bioinformatics (SBB) School in Novosibirsk ( https://conf.icgbio.ru/sbb2020/ ) were initially conceived as satellite event for young scientists held at the same time as BGRS\SB conference series, becoming now large independent event [ 11 ], [ 12 ]. In this journal issue we present works by young scientists [ 3 ], [ 4 ] on database development.…”

“…We open this issue with the paper by Sergey Kratov [ 3 ] on the Digital Platform “Bioinformatics”. The authors discuss the digital platform in the field of bioinformatics and the formation of the thematically oriented and industrial digital ecosystems.…”