Scientific data mining for life sciences

Technical service highlights

We help government and industrial collaborators in the fields of health, agriculture and the environment to analyze their high-volume, complex data. We can provide valuable insights, help you draw conclusions, and suggest future research and development direction for your project. We also conduct groundbreaking, foundational and applied research, independently or in collaboration with academia.

What we offer

Based within the NRC's Digital Technologies Research Centre, our team's expertise includes the following core competencies:

artificial intelligence
biochemistry
bioinformatics and computational biology
cheminformatics and computational chemistry
computational geometry
computational science
data science, including preprocessing, mining, and interpretation
deep learning
machine learning
mathematics
physics

We apply our expertise to the discovery and development of:

biologics and their manufacturing
crops with optimized biotic and abiotic resistance
diagnostics
drugs and drug targets
health software and applications
personalized medicine

Applications and tools

We have developed the following publically available software and applications that researchers can access and use in their work:

Circular Secondary Structure Uncertainty Plot
Deep Learning for Identifying cis-Regulatory Elements and Other Applications
Gene Order Browser
GOAL (Gene Ontology AnaLyzer)
MetaboHunter
Microarray Manual Curation Tool
MicroDes (Micro Array Design Tool)
MWFD (Metabolome of Wheat Fungal Disease Database)
Multi-View Matrix Factorization Models (MVMF) for Integrative Data Analysis
Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) Toolbox
OPTricluster (Order Preserving Tricluster)
Plant Orthology Browser (POB)
Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGM) Toolbox
Regularized Linear Models and Kernels (RLMK) Toolbox
Sparse Representation (SR) Toolbox
Spectral Clustering Toolbox

Why work with us

Our strength lies in combining our extensive expertise in data science with our knowledge and experience in life science and physical sciences domains. We understand what creates value for our partners and apply a collaborative approach in helping you reach your goals.
We participate in projects with the following federal departments, universities, non-profit research centres and companies: