Projects

Funded research projects led by or involving the Bio-Ontology Research Group.

PeriodProjectRole
2025–ongoingKAUST Smart Health Initiative 2024 round (SHI2024)PI
2025–2026Personalized cancer treatment prediction (KCSH Pathway to Impact 2025)PI
2024–ongoingKAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AI (Health and Wellness, BCB theme)PI
2024–2026A public Saudi pangenome as reference for genomics in the Middle EastPI
2023–2026Towards sound, complete, and explainable machine learning with biomedical ontologies (CRG11)PI
2023–2026Disease Models from Patient-derived Leukemic Cells in Biomimetic Peptide Scaffolds for Precision Medicine ApplicationsPI (co-PI)
2023–2025Enabling desert revegetation by AI-tailored soil microbiome fortificationCoI
2023–2023Enabling mangrove restoration by AI-tailored microbiome fortificationCoI
2022–2024Metagenomics-based surface prospectingPI
2022–2025Evolutionary potential of corals to adapt to climate warmingCoI
2022–2024Computational methods for functional metagenomics: from protein functions to multi-scale interactionsPI
2021–2023IBNSINA-QI: Integrating Biomedical Networks and Semantic Information for Neural network Analysis of Quantitative InformationPI
2021–2023Development of Algorithms for Biotechnology and Biomedical ApplicationsPI
2019–2021CompleX: Variant Prioritization in Complex DiseasePI
2019–2021Improving health of Saudi populationPI
2019–2019Whole genome sequencing of rare disease patientsPI
2018–2021Sequencing and computational analysis of MRSA samplesPI
2018–2019Improvement of genetic variant prioritization technologyPI
2018–2020Bio2Vec: Smart analytics infrastructure for the life sciencesPI
2018–2020The Whale Shark 100: Applying Population Genomics to Understand Mysteries of the World's Largest FishCoI
2016–2018Data integration and ontologies for microbial cell factoriesWP-lead

Pre-KAUST projects

  • (2005–2009) Basic considerations for improving interoperability between ontology-based biological information systems
  • (2009–2010) Postdoctoral research on biomedical ontology reasoning and integration
  • (2010–2014) Phenotype ontologies and translational research (Cambridge / Aberystwyth)