Cell migration data analysis and storage revamped

Cell migration data output is high-content and high-throughput. The EU project https://multimot.org/ (MULTIMOT) has delivered new standards, infrastructure, software and relevant research data sets to deal with this data deluge.

Cell migration is a fundamental process involved in development and morphogenesis, immune function, wound healing and cancer metastasis. Over the last few years, advances in cell migration research have enabled widespread use of multiplexing and multi-parameter post-processing of cell migration analyses.

As it is one of those areas that generates Big Data for analysis and storage, a largely unmet bioinformatics need has emerged. “The MULTIMOT project has risen to this enormous challenge and developed both standards and a repository,” summarises Dr Lennart Martens, leader of the Computational Omics and Systems Biology group in Flanders Institute for Biotechnology, Belgium, the coordinating institute.

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Cell migration data analysis and storage revamped