TargetID may be a springboard, but it also builds on the successes of several past University of Malta projects including:
- which involved multiple departments at the University of Malta (UM) and helped equip our labs
- the Maltese Acute Myocardial Infarction (MAMI) Study in which we collected data and samples from around 1000 research subjects (National R&I Programme 2008 organised by the Malta Council for Science and Technology #MCST)
- The Malta Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Project where we started work on high throughput sequencing (#MCST National R&I Programme 2012)
- the EU Twinning project TrainMALTA led by Dr Rosienne Farrugia where students and staff at the University of Malta received training in Bioinformatics and functional work from researchers at the University of Cambridge (UCAM) and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven).
Like a stepping stone each of these helped us move forward. It is amazing to see the years of work and preparation by so many people that leads us to today where we are developing and using bioinformatic tools to analyse 1000 whole genomes and transcriptomes to understand diseases better and find new drugs to treat them.
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