{"id":163638,"date":"2024-07-12T14:39:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T20:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=163638"},"modified":"2024-12-13T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:16:28","slug":"portiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/tech\/portiko\/","title":{"rendered":"Portiko, the Platform that Connects Scientists Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Within weeks of its launch, the Portiko<\/strong><\/a> platform already brings together more than 500 scientists from different specialties who offer their skills for the development of new knowledge<\/strong>. But what exactly is<\/strong> this tool that on X, user Bal\u00e1zs Szigeti describes as a “Tinder for research collaborations”?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Burgos Ruiz<\/a>, a bioinformatician of Spanish nationality, had the idea of \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bcreating Portiko<\/strong> while she was researching how the brain of a fish ages and the data revealed an important finding that she needed to demonstrate with analysis of the animal’s tissues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researcher needed to find an expert who mastered a technique of histological cuts in the brain of fish<\/strong>, which help support her discovery of a gene<\/strong> that is related to aging<\/strong>. This search wasn’t easy and motivated her to create Portiko<\/strong>, a digital platform <\/strong>that would connect scientists experts in certain techniques, both laboratory and data analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn my case there were certain techniques that if I found the person I could validate the data experimentally. It makes no sense for me to try to learn something when  there are experts in that,” explains the researcher from Seville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Portiko\u2019s Contribution?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Portiko<\/strong> becomes relevant because the traditional way of finding specialists<\/strong> is through colleagues, attending conferences or identifying a paper in which a technique had been used and sending emails to all the authors to find the right one<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“As easy as creating a Marketplace where if I’m good at analyzing such data I put my skills there, so other researchers can find me easily and backwards,” explains Burgos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the help of a programmer who designed the site, Dani Gleba<\/a>, Portiko<\/strong> was born. Currently, just a few weeks of operation, more than 500 researchers <\/strong>are already registered on the platform, most of them from the United States and Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are launching a platform to connect researchers who are open to collaborate with others… (1\/3)<\/p>— Ana Burgos Ruiz (@Ana_BurgosRuiz) May 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>