Proteomics and Graph Databases, the Symbiosis of Associations

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016 - 6:30 PM

Skillsmatter - CodeNode, 10 South Place, London, EC2M 2RB, GB , London 

This month Alejandro Murillo from The University of Dundee will be coming down to talk to us about how he's using Neo4j to model and understand protein behaviours. 

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Proteomics and Graph Databases, the symbiosis of associations 
Alejandro Brenes Murillo, Analytics Developer at the University of Dundee 

The proteome is the entire set of proteins that are produced or modified by an organism, it is an element that varies with time, stress, environmental conditions or distinct requirements that a cell might have. 

At the Lamond Lab in the University of Dundee we are interested in modelling and understanding protein behaviour under different conditions and dimensions of analysis. 

In order to achieve this goal, we use graph databases to integrate and model the proteomics data, and its effect on a specific proteome. The dimensions of analysis are multiple, yet be it turnover, localisation, cell cycle, protein complexes or biological response to stimuli, discovering the behaviour of proteins is key to understanding how organisms function, and how disease affects them.