(07-10-25) Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) pre-programme discovery funding

Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Thrilled to share that our 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁2𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗶𝘁 project has been awarded an Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) pre-programme discovery grant! together with MD Sharma from the University of Exeter Centre for Ecology and Conservation, UK

https://lnkd.in/evYwqwSN

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: A community-driven platform that turns plant-associated insects and microbiome literature into actionable knowledge graphs to accelerate genotype-to-phenotype discovery and multi-omics link prioritization. Under the hood is our human-in-the-loop engine, HARVEST, combining full-text mining, ontology-aware NLP, and expert curation to extract reliable gene–trait–metabolite–stress links with transparent evidence. 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: Plant functional genomics, breeding, crop and ecosystem resilience rely on knowledge that’s mostly hidden in scientific literature. Text2Trait will help researchers and breeders interpret GWAS hits, prioritize multi-omics links, and design decisive assays, faster and with provenance. Huge thanks to collaborators Prof. Wim Vriezen @Brightlands Future Farming Institute (UM) and Dr. Aki Härmä @Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (UM), and to Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) for backing bold, translational science.

Interested in contributing papers, annotations, or use cases? DM me. We are building an open community around Text2Trait.

Register here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=AUGsYwXdcUe81i4qVCHl-rvQVhjRtwlOicZh688-IQxUOThSU1M0MFY3UTVLWVhSRjRKSDNHVzgwQS4u

(13-09-25) 19th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I attended the Gatersleben Research Conference / 19th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics (GRC-IB 2025) at IPK Gatersleben, which brought together plant scientists, bioinformaticians, and data infrastructure experts to discuss how to integrate heterogeneous omics data, make them FAIR, and apply AI/ML in crop research. I presented MEANTools for the systematic and unsupervised biosynthetic pathway discovery. The meeting emphasized practical data management, reference datasets, and workflows that enable truly integrative plant genomics and phenomics, but also showcased forward-looking talks on network inference, knowledge-graph construction, and visualization tools for large plant datasets. For me, the useful part was seeing how European plant institutes are standardizing pipelines and metadata so that multi-omics resources from different crops can actually be re-used, and how these standards can feed directly into LLM- or KG-based discovery tools like the ones we are building at the Brightlands Future Farming Institute at Venlo. The format was very collaborative, with plenty of time for discussions on future joint projects and data sharing.

automated-knowledge-discovery | Kumar Saurabh Singh

(07-10-25) Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA) pre-programme discovery funding

(13-09-25) 19th International Symposium on Integrative Bioinformatics