Home
Cutting-edge computational solutions for the toughest problems in mass spectrometry data analysis
One paragraph containing more details about the research
Lennart Martens
Associate Department Director Bioinformatics
- VIB Group Leader since October 2009
- Associate Director since 2016
- Postdoc: EMBL-EBI, Cambridge, UK, 2006-2009
- PhD: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 2006
Research areas
Computational biologySystems biologyMedical biotechnology
Research focus
The field of mass spectrometry continues to evolve at a rapid pace, and as it does so, it increasingly takes on aspects of data science alongside analytics. Driven by methodological changes that become ever more application-oriented, mass spectrometry has moved beyond the traditional aim to simply catalogue analytes in a sample. As a result, the field is in constant need of advanced informatics approaches to make sense of the acquired data. Indeed, these informatics solutions have become such an essential part of this field that it finds itself frequently limited by available algorithms and computational solutions, rather than by available instruments or samples.