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Changed access to national e-infrastructure

21 Dec 2012

Many bioinformatics researchers in the Netherlands have become familiar with the BiG Grid e-Infrastructure over the past six years. The access to the ...

Metagenomics Research of Skin Bacteria in public media

14 Dec 2012

The results of metagenomics research of bacteria on human skin have reached the editors of the popular news website NU.nl (in Dutch) and the news...

Apply now for funding for PCDI Postdoc Retreat 2013!

14 Dec 2012

The Postdoc Career Development Initiative (PCDI) supports postdocs and final year PhD students at career orientation and realizing young researchers’ ...

GOBLET: Combining efforts in training and education

14 Dec 2012

A global initiative towards combining efforts in bioinformatics training and education

NBIC advanced NGS courses for impact

13 Dec 2012

Next Generation Sequencing is expected to have an even greater impact in 2013 and to find its way into more and more labs and applications. NBIC is of...

Inken Wohlers (CWI) defended thesis on protein structure comparison

13 Dec 2012

CWI researcher Inken Wohlers from the group of Gunnar Klau has developed mathematical models and computer algorithms to compare two protein structures...

Groningen and Chromosome 5

13 Dec 2012

The Chromosome Centric Human Proteome Project (C-HPP) has the goal to detect and catalogue protein gene products and link them to their original chrom...

Register now for NBIC/SIB Winterschool 2013 in the snow!

13 Dec 2012

From 10-15 March 2013, PhD students working at the intersection of bioinformatics and medicine can meet each other in the snow in Kandersteg, Switzerl...

Pig genome reveals genes that made domesticated pigs longer

06 Dec 2012

Since having been tamed and domesticated some ten thousand years ago, pigs have been getting longer. Researchers from the universities of Wageningen, ...