Egon Willighagen is a researcher in the BiGCaT Department for Bioinformatics and teacher at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research projects focus on using and developing new cheminformatics and chemometrics approaches to explain biological phenomena in metabolic diseases, drug discovery, and toxicology.
The research develops and contributes to open source and open data projects including BridgeDb, eNanoMapper, the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK), Bioclipse, and linked open data projects such as WikiPathways, the CHEMINF ontology, and Open PHACTS.
