FH-Prof. Mag. Dr. Alexandra Graf
Head of Degree Program Bioinformatics
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Project Duration: 01.10.2016 to 30.09.2019
The urban environment is becoming increasingly important, and microorganisms play a central role in this environment too. However, our knowledge of the dynamics of the urban microbiome and how it affects our lives is still largely incomplete. The relatively new field of urban metagenomics is now turning its attention to cities and the interaction between humans and the urban microbiome for the first time.
The aim of the project is to find out how much the microbiome of the city, with which we constantly come into contact, changes the microbiome of our palms. In other words, how much of the microbes that we touch as we walk through the city actually remain on the surface of our bodies and can thus be transmitted?
For this purpose, an analysis application is being developed that can also be used and interpreted outside the scientific context, with few resources such as time, PC performance, memory and without specialist knowledge. Since not one application can efficiently cover all use cases, parameters for specific use cases must be defined. In the project, the application is optimised for use in urban metagenomics and validated with the planned metagenome study. The application serves as a prototype of an analysis application for urban metagenome analyses. However, the software is designed to be as flexible and modular as possible so that it can be quickly adapted to other use cases.
Head of Degree Program Bioinformatics
Head of Degree Programs Bioengineering, Bioprocess Engineering, Biotechnological Quality Management