In a context where new technologies and equipment allow for mass treatment of samples and where research teams share more and more acquired data, scientists are facing a major data exploitation problem. More precisely using this data through data mining tools or replacing it in a classical experimental approach require a preliminary grasp on the information space in order to direct the process. But acquiring this grasp on the data is a complex activity which is seldom supported by current software tools. My research aims at assisting researchers in these difficult information gathering, compilation and analysis tasks.
The various research projects I'm involved in aim at providing original solutions to this problem. These projects lead to a series of publications.