SSC are very proud to be associated with the new R&D research program from TEKES which follows on from the survey of the opportunities of cross-pollination of Bioinformatics skills into new market areas.

The Bio-IT program  kicked off in Helsinki with an intensive seminar session combining English and Finnish presentations with an audience of approximately 100 people.
https://tapahtumat.tekes.fi/tapahtuma/bioitverkottumistilaisuus

The Keynote Presentation was an overview of the potential markets and the key-players given by Cait Murray. This included a brief introduction to each of the 30 international consultants that have been generous enough to get involved with the program.  Further presentations were given by Roal, Medisapiens, and Roche Diagnostics of Finland and Eagle Genomics of Cambridge UK all speaking about how to create growth and success in the world of Bioinformatics and related industries.

The meeting included a networking 1-2-1 area where attendees were actively speaking with each other and learning about interests and possibilities for getting involved with the program.

Further information on the Tekes plans for the Bio-IT program can be found
http://www.tekes.fi/programmes/BioIT

Tekes, the Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation have released a new report about the potential for cross-pollination of skills from Bioinformatics to other industry areas.

The site is only available in Finnish at present, but the report is in English.
www.tekes.fi/info/bio-ict


 

SSC will be attending Engage with Strathclyde Week and I'm particularly interested in their seminars on the Knowledge Exchange and also on their new Stem Cells networking area.
http://www.strath.ac.uk/engage/Engage with Strathclyde

We are currently working on material for the new SSC website. I'm looking to include some supportive client recommendations and was wondering if anyone else, perhaps not formally a client, might have supportive offerrings to make. The reward is a link to your website from ours!

Having great fun with the Tekes project. Its really interesting for me to be having conversations with people from all arts&parts who are thinking about how Bioinformatics and skills underpinning Bioinformatics can be used in other industry areas. I'm learning about Clean Fuel development from Synthetic Biology, Food Ingredient identification and Protected Designation of Origin, Image Processing techniques and their application to 24hr monitoring of things as diverse as plant growth and airport passport control....and everyone's bug-bear is the same - make data conversion easier....that old chestnut.