{"id":16823,"date":"2021-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/omics-and-machine-learning-for-rare-genetic-diseases\/"},"modified":"2021-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T05:00:00","slug":"omics-and-machine-learning-for-rare-genetic-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/omics-and-machine-learning-for-rare-genetic-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Omics and machine learning for rare genetic diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec would like to congratulate Alex Parker and \u00c9ric Samarut, researchers at the <span>Centre de recherche du CHUM<\/span>, who have received funding under the <em>Genomics Integration Program &#8211; Human Health<\/em>. Their project will be carried out in partnership with Modelis, a Qu\u00e9bec-based biotechnology company.\u00a0<span>This innovative project integrating artificial intelligence and omics data aims to accelerate the discovery of new drugs for rare genetic diseases and drastically reduce the costs of pre-clinical studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This program funds partnerships between academic researchers and users who can implement or commercialize research results in order to bring a technology to maturity. This initiative is also intended as a lever to access larger-scale funding. Considering that in the health sector, many companies (SMEs, start-ups) have difficulty obtaining seed funding, which hinders their ability to develop proof of concept, such a program is a very interesting alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To read the funded project sheet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/276-en\/project\/improving-the-efficiency-of-drug-discovery-for-rare-genetic-diseases-by-combining-omics-data-and-machine-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec would like to congratulate Alex Parker and \u00c9ric Samarut, researchers at the Centre de recherche du CHUM, who have received funding under the Genomics Integration Program &#8211; Human&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}