One of the most important developing areas of the life sciences is in the application of mathematics. A number of factors are combining to bring the emerging field of biomathematics to the fore: the vast amount of biological data now available due to advancing hardware techniques such as modern genomics, the increase of readily available computing power with which to analyze data, the recent development of mathematical models and tools allowing new explorations into nonlinear mechanisms in biology, and renewed interest in in-silicomodelling due to the ethical and practical considerations required of modern testing methods.
The goal of the 4-year long EUMLS project is to contribute to overcoming the historical communication and cross-disciplinary barriers that exist between the biosciences and mathematics through a comprehensive programme realizing a total of 205 months of research exchanges between five premier Ukrainian mathematical institutes and three partners in Germany, Italy, and Norway, active in different aspects of computational life sciences. After the identification of promising research areas of common interest, several joint teams will pursue these topics, building on staff exchanges between the Ukrainian and the other partners. Main pillars of the project will be annual workshop events, open to all interested researchers, also those not belonging to the project teams, to be held in Ukraine to discuss the joint research topics.