BIO-ICT Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics

BIO-ICT Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics is rated 3 out of 5 in the category research. Read and write reviews about BIO-ICT Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics. BIO-ICT Centre of Excellence is the first Centre of Excellence in Montenegro, implemented as a three-year research programme at the University of Montenegro led by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, financed by the Ministry of Science of Montenegro through a World Bank loan from June 2014. Besides the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, partners on the project are three leading Montenegrin research institutions: Biotechnical Faculty, Institute for Marine Biology, Institute of Public Health; two international universities: St. Petersburg Scientific Research Centre for Ecological Safety and Centre for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF); and two successful Montenegrin SMEs: COGI doo and Green House Jovović doo. BIO-ICT mission is the development of modular and state-of-the-art BIO-ICT R&D platform in the areas of sustainable agriculture, monitoring of the crops, forest and water/sea ecosystem, development of techniques for controlling and reducing air pollution, analysis and standardization of food products, control of land quality, and improvement in the public health area. A new pilot system is currently under development. It is service oriented with the aim to boost the application and use of the latest ICT technologies in the areas of agriculture, marine biology, environmental monitoring. This open service platform will be scalable in order to be extended to other areas like health, transportation, smart cities, smart objects etc.