Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations in European Programs, Except FP7 & H2020

Alain Franc is co-chair of Working Group 4 (Data Analysis and Storage) of COST DNAqua.net (http://dnaqua.net/), with the main task of developing contact with HPC and metabarcoding for serving the whole community. He chaired the meeting of this groups in Pécs in 2018. The goal of DNAqua-Net is to nucleate a group of researchers across disciplines with the task to identify gold-standard genomic tools and novel eco-genomic indices and metrics for routine application for biodiversity assessments and biomonitoring of European water bodies.