HEAP symposium – “Biobanking and the exposome”
As part of HEAP\’s \”Symposium Highlights\” series, Kurt Zatloukal, Head of the Diagnostic and Research Center for Molecular BioMedicine, Medical University Graz, and Director of BBMRI.at, Austria, discusses how biobanks could add value to exposome research in a 15-minute presentation. Biobanks have expertise in collecting, preserving and providing access to biosamples, as well as processing […]
Presenting the HEAP “Symposium Highlights” series
HEAP “Symposium Highlights” showcases the presentations from the “Frontiers in Human Exposome Research” symposium, hosted by BBMRI.at and the Medical University of Graz in June 2022. The Symposium provides a snapshot of the latest exposome research on epigenomics, microbiomics, metabolomics, and the key legal and ethical issues facing researchers. FAIR data, and a preview of […]
TEDx talk – the case for a data driven approach to health policy
The notion of sharing data during public health emergencies is generally accepted, and has been a cornerstone of the COVID-19 pandemic response. But should data sharing be limited to emergencies or a few high-priority threats? We now have the technology to enable near real-time, broad-based, continuous information, and a collaborative framework for data collection, sharing, analysis, […]
The HEAP interview – Ville Pimenoff on data cohorts
We talk to Ville Pimenoff, Senior Research Fellow at Karolinska Institute in Sweden who is the PI of the Finnish population-wise cohort data that will be included in the HEAP informatics platform as part of its testing and pilot phase. Q: Tell us about the cohorts that you are working with A: The Finnish HPV vaccination […]
HEAP marker paper published in the journal Environmental Epidemiology
Read the Human Exposome Assessment Platform project profile paper Published in December 2021, the HEAP project paper introduces the HEAP informatics platform that aims to become a global research resource, integrating an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS: computational resources services for storage and computation) and a Platform as a Service (PaaS: software services for managing and analyzing […]
Video explainer – key features of the HEAP platform for researchers
The HEAP You Tube channel launches with a handy video guide for exposome researchers! The Human Exposome Assessment Platform will provide powerful data analysis tools for researchers. This video provides an overview of the HEAP platform, along with a detailed presentation from one of the HEAP software developers on the key features that will enable […]
Let’s talk metadata – Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) Workshop #2
The second Bring Your Own Data (BYOD) Workshop is underway, marking a new stage of development for the HEAP Informatics Platform, as it prepares to be tested with metadata from the project’s data cohorts. Opening the workshop, Heimo Műller of the Medical University of Graz and leader of the “Data Interoperability and Sharing” Work Package, […]
Researchers! Is your data ready for interview?
New \”Self Assessment Service\” developed by the HEAP team at the Medical University of Graz. The HEAP informatics platform aims to make data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) for the scientific community. But what does this mean in practice? When data is FAIR, it can be easily collected, connected, linked and integrated with other […]
The HEAP interview – Frederik Trier Møller from the Consumer Cohort Project
We talk to Frederik Trier Møller, MD, PhD, who is Principal Investigator of the HEAP Consumer Cohort Project, based at Statens Serum Institut (SSI) in Copenhagen. The Consumer Cohort Project will recruit volunteers to share their consumer receipts, which will help measure the impact of household consumption on health. The receipts will be linked with […]
The HEAP interview – Piotr Bala talks metagenomics
We talk to Piotr Bala, leader of HEAP’s Metagenomic Analysis Work Package. He is Professor of parallel and grid computing, algorithms and programming at the University of Warsaw’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM). First of all, what does metagenomics involve, and how is it being used in the Human Exposome Assessment Platform (HEAP) project? […]