Nutritional Science 2.0

• Nutritional science is entering a new era with a shift away from “little science” toward “big science”.

• The major nutritional problems facing the world today with huge impact on public and  private parties cannot be solved by “little science”, characterized by individualistic research, lacking coordination and integration.

• “Big science” is needed, i.e., multiple groups with complementary knowledge and expertise working together in large consortia.

• This new era takes full advantage of modern
     - high resolution, comprehensive and unbiased “Genomics” technologies,
     - bio-banking,
     - sophisticated and partly web-based database management
     - providing a new platform for scientific dialogue and exchange.

• We define this new Nutritional Science as Nutritional Science 2.0.