Modern investigative technologies in medical research produce unprecedented amounts of data for each patient, be it genomics, Transcriptomics, epigenetics, or metabolomics data. The processing and evaluation of such data require expertise in computer science, programming and statistical analysis. As a result, Bioinformatics had emerged as a necessary field in biomedical research in which expertise in the areas of biology are combined with computer science.

• Active areas of research include
• Microbiomics / metagenome analysis
• Comparative Transcriptomics ( RNA-seq, microarrays)
• GWAS (genome wide association studies)
• Metabolomics

Bioinformatic resources developed at BREATH will soon be available to all DZL sites. An important goal of the Bioinformatics Platform is to facilitate an exchange of analysis capabilities among the DZL sites. Furthermore, through the integration of the diverse data types generated in the DZL, it is possible  to gain important insights into the biology of lung disease.