Building an integrated, ontology-mapped database of miRNA associations

This event will be of interest to researchers, data scientists, and professionals working at the intersection of bioinformatics, computational biology, and precision medicine. Join us for a deep dive into how bioinformatics and data science are being used to map microRNA (miRNA) associations and analyse disease similarity using cutting-edge techniques. In this talk, Dorothea Grkovic and Yelyzaveta Kyrylova, bioinformatics interns at the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, will present their open-source platform that integrates 11 public biomedical datasets into a unified, ontology-mapped system. The database enables: * SQL querying of miRNA–disease, miRNA–target, lncRNA, SNP, and drug associations * Disease–disease similarity analytics using Jaccard scores * Visualizations with t-SNE, clustering, heatmaps, and interactive networks Whether you’re into biomedical research, data integration, or computational biology, this is an event not to miss!