Denmark-based Fluxome will strengthen its technology platform through an extensive European modeling tool project. The BioPreDyn Project will develop novel computational tools, methods and algorithms, and will integrate these into a user-friendly software platform for research institutions as well as other companies operating in the industrial biotech sector. The project has a budget of nearly €3 million and is expected to allow Fluxome to further improve the production processes for nutraceutical ingredients. The final outcome will be a stronger technology platform, which will improve Fluxome's ability to screen product ideas as well as develop and produce high quality nutraceutical ingredients for the dietary supplements, food, beverage and cosmetics industries.

"We are very excited to be part of this project as it will allow us to work with the leading researchers in the area of computational tools, speed up our research and development activities and provide useful methods to support our cutting edge technology platform,” said Jean-Marie Mouillon, director of R&D at Fluxome.

New Bioinformatics Methods and Tools for Data-Driven, Predictive Dynamic Modelling in Biotechnological Applications (BioPreDyn project) will include eight academic labs and three industrial partners from countries across Europe. It is a three-year project with a budget of €2.9 million from the 7th Framework Program of the European Commission.

The project is coordinated by the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, which will be responsible for developing innovative solutions by embracing collective expertise and synergies between interdisciplinary areas such as database development, scientific visualization methods, statistics, machine learning, mathematical modeling and biotechnological engineering.