Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future
Abstract
We review the establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus from its inception to date and issue recommendations for future development. We compare output to other countries of similar geography, economy, and size—based on publication counts recorded in the literature—and predict future growth based on those counts as well as national priority areas. Our analysis may be pertinent to wider national or regional communities with challenges and opportunities emerging from the rapid expansion of the field and related industries. Our recommendations suggest a 2-fold growth margin for the 2 countries, as a realistic expectation for further expansion of the field and the development of a credible roadmap of national priorities, both in terms of research and infrastructure funding.
- Authors:
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- Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessalonica (Greece)
- Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessalonica (Greece)
- Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Crete, Heraklion (Greece)
- USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion (Greece)
- Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Heraklion (Greece)
- Univ. of Patras (Greece)
- National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Athens (Greece)
- Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia (Cyprus)
- Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1599826
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- PLoS Computational Biology (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: PLoS Computational Biology (Online); Journal Volume: 15; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 1553-7358
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; cyprus; Greece; bioinformatics; computational biology; Europe; molecular biology; graduates; government laboratories
Citation Formats
Chasapi, Anastasia, Aivaliotis, Michalis, Angelis, Lefteris, Chanalaris, Anastasios, Iliopoulos, Ioannis, Kappas, Ilias, Karapiperis, Christos, Kyrpides, Nikos C., Pafilis, Evangelos, Panteris, Eleftherios, Topalis, Pantelis, Tsiamis, George, Vizirianakis, Ioannis S., Vlassi, Metaxia, Promponas, Vasilis J., Ouzounis, Christos A., and Papin, Jason A. Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007532.
Chasapi, Anastasia, Aivaliotis, Michalis, Angelis, Lefteris, Chanalaris, Anastasios, Iliopoulos, Ioannis, Kappas, Ilias, Karapiperis, Christos, Kyrpides, Nikos C., Pafilis, Evangelos, Panteris, Eleftherios, Topalis, Pantelis, Tsiamis, George, Vizirianakis, Ioannis S., Vlassi, Metaxia, Promponas, Vasilis J., Ouzounis, Christos A., & Papin, Jason A. Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future. United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007532
Chasapi, Anastasia, Aivaliotis, Michalis, Angelis, Lefteris, Chanalaris, Anastasios, Iliopoulos, Ioannis, Kappas, Ilias, Karapiperis, Christos, Kyrpides, Nikos C., Pafilis, Evangelos, Panteris, Eleftherios, Topalis, Pantelis, Tsiamis, George, Vizirianakis, Ioannis S., Vlassi, Metaxia, Promponas, Vasilis J., Ouzounis, Christos A., and Papin, Jason A. Thu .
"Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future". United States. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007532. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1599826.
@article{osti_1599826,
title = {Establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus: Past, present, and future},
author = {Chasapi, Anastasia and Aivaliotis, Michalis and Angelis, Lefteris and Chanalaris, Anastasios and Iliopoulos, Ioannis and Kappas, Ilias and Karapiperis, Christos and Kyrpides, Nikos C. and Pafilis, Evangelos and Panteris, Eleftherios and Topalis, Pantelis and Tsiamis, George and Vizirianakis, Ioannis S. and Vlassi, Metaxia and Promponas, Vasilis J. and Ouzounis, Christos A. and Papin, Jason A.},
abstractNote = {We review the establishment of computational biology in Greece and Cyprus from its inception to date and issue recommendations for future development. We compare output to other countries of similar geography, economy, and size—based on publication counts recorded in the literature—and predict future growth based on those counts as well as national priority areas. Our analysis may be pertinent to wider national or regional communities with challenges and opportunities emerging from the rapid expansion of the field and related industries. Our recommendations suggest a 2-fold growth margin for the 2 countries, as a realistic expectation for further expansion of the field and the development of a credible roadmap of national priorities, both in terms of research and infrastructure funding.},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007532},
journal = {PLoS Computational Biology (Online)},
number = 12,
volume = 15,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {12}
}
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