- Head of Research Group: Prof. Sándor PONGOR
- Members of the Group: Dr. Balázs LIGETI, Dr. János JUHÁSZ
- Contact: pongor.sandor@itk.ppke.hu
- The traditional focus of our group is the general theory of bioinformatics data. This involves describing bioinformatics data—such as sequences, 3D molecular structures, biological networks, genomes, and scientific texts—within a unified theoretical framework using systems theory and network research methods. By doing so, we aim to elucidate the fundamental principles underlying the management of biological data and databases. This is crucial for interpreting data from biological communities, such as metagenomic data. A key focus of our group is curriculum development for BSc, MSc and PhD courses, which has three main directions: fundamentals of bioinformatics, visualisation of scien-tific data, and data interpretation and communication, including scientific writing and presentation skills. The emergence of artificial intelligence casts new light to these areas, to which our curriculum development efforts are also adapting. Our other projects are connected to the analysis of primarily host related microbiomes. We develop methods for exploring their composition and connections.
Different layers of molecular biology data (for example nucleotide sequences, 3D protein structures, biological functions) need to be connected in order to gain knowledge (published in scientific articles) about the structure and regulation of organisms. Mapping tools between different data types or layers and clusteing methods within these layers are crucial for effective information transfer.
