Bioinformatics helps us put the pieces of the puzzle together.
There are around 4-5 million variants in one single genome but only a few cause serious effects resulting in disease. Identifying and recognising which are truly disease-causing is a difficult task. Luckily we have more tools available to analyse the increasing volumes of genetic data including combining information from the genome to other layers of data - such as the transcriptome, metabolome and proteome. In TargetID we are analysing the genome of 1000 individuals together with the gene expression (or productivity) from the transcriptome.
TargetID: Novel Drug Targets for Infectious Diseases is a University of Malta #UM project funded through the #MCST COVID-19 R&D Fund 2020 jointly administered by the Malta Council for Science & Technology and Malta Enterprise.
