The Brittany Region will finance the KoriPlast project during an 18-month period, accompanied by CRITT Santé Bretagne, within the framework of the Collaborative Research program.

The KoriPlast project will be conducted by the company Korilog in partnership with the Symbiose team from INRIA and the IRISA. It aims to implement innovative software solutions that deal with next-generation sequencing in general and metagenomics (large-scale functional analysis) in particular.

Symbiose is a joint IRISA/INRIA bioinformatics research team. Their research mainly focuses on large scale genomic data analysis covering modelling of gene networks, the discovery and analysis of genome structures, intensive processing of genomic data, metagenomics and structural bioinformatics.

Korilog is a bioinformatics company specialising in the design and production of software enabling scientists to efficiently exploit heterogeneous biological information systems in genomics and proteomics. In this context, Korilog offers KorilBlast, a software platform for laboratories and public and private research centres. KoriBlast applications cover a wide spectrum and most notably concern the study of the function of genes and proteins, detailed examination of functional sites (from the sequence to the 3D structure), the analysis of mutations in the sequences, taxonomic study or the analysis of genomes and metagenomes.