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project info
Start date: 1 November 2017
End date: 30 April 2021
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 1 482 734,55 €
EU contribution: 1 254 838,25 € (84,63%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: ministerstwo obsługujące ministra właściwego ds. rozwoju regionalnego, Departament Rozwoju Cyfrowego

Digital sharing of biomolecular and descriptive resources of biobank and the Department of Anthropology of the University of Lodz – characteristics of populations living in today’s Poland throughout history. Information platform e-Czlowiek.pl.

Thanks to the enormous progress made in the use of molecular biology techniques in recent decades in the broadly understood areas of biological and medical sciences, scientific and research centres generate huge amounts of data (big data) of significant scientific value every day. Currently, the implementation of new bioinformatic solutions in Poland, including organising and facilitating access to scientific data, is still not a popular practice. The source of this problem is the lack of openness of research staff to the process of global digitisation and the economy of sharing, which is closely linked to the specificities of the profession and the rules prevailing in research institutions. In the Great Data Age, therefore, the greatest challenge is not simply to conduct research experiments, but to develop a system of easy data exchange while creating interdisciplinary repositories to formulate solutions that best convey the essence of the problem or phenomenon. Providing scientific resources will increase innovation – it will create a platform aimed at one of the largest audiences – Internet users, contributing to the definition of new and existing standards, significantly increasing the possibilities of reaching such valuable and hard-to-available data. The implementation of the project will increase the amount of publicly available data – seven billion fields of data on the human genome (Polish population on a sample of 6400 people) are waiting to be made available. This collection will be enriched with inventory resources of the Department of Anthropology for digitisation. The scope of digitisation of the skeleton collection from the XI to the beginning of the nineteenth century, derived from five sepulcral archaeological sites, located in the area of Brest Kujawy in Kujawy, will include the acquisition of digital recording of DNA sequences (ancient DNA).

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