Other collaborations
As a computational biology group with a strong molecular biological background, we also find ourselves frequently contacted for some first aid on statistics or bioinformatics. Even if outside of our immediate interest, we are happy to help, if there is capacity. Thus we were able to contribute to describing a sense of taste for lipids in Drosophila, evaluating circulating Dickkopf-1 as a biomarker in ovarian cancer, and contributed to local suveillance of SARS-CoV2 evolution and descibed our own Saxonian SARS-CoV2 variant of no concern. We reallised that it probably had died out when we discovered it - still it was important to follow it up.
We were also contributing to the German COVID Omics Consortium DeCOI in general.