Drug mechanisms

Data integration and ontologies for microbial cell factories

Ontology-based data integration for synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. Hoehndorf led the data-integration work package. Period: 2016–2018 Funding KAUST Center Competitive Funding — Grant ID: FCC/1/1976-08-01 (WP-lead) — USD 115,691 Team Vladimir Bajic — PI (Former KAUST CBRC director (retired)) Robert Hoehndorf — CoI (KAUST (Professor of Computer Science)) Miguel Angel Rodriguez Garcia — Postdoc (King Juan Carlos University (Research Scientist)) Software AberOWL — Ontology repository providing OWL EL reasoning services and SPARQL query expansion; integrates with PubMed/PMC for
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KAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AI (Health and Wellness, BCB theme)

This project is the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) component of KAUST's Center of Excellence activities on Generative AI and Smart Health. It sets out to integrate computational biology, bioinformatics, and generative AI with advanced biotechnology so that data-driven health solutions can be developed for the Saudi and wider Arab population. The motivation rests on three challenges that the standard AI-for-health stack does not solve when transferred unchanged to Saudi Arabia: drug discovery is dominated by data from Western and East Asian populations, leaving Arab-specific