NBIC news

All cells are not equal

10 Nov 2011

Transcriptomics, i.e. studying gene expression levels in an organism, has become a routine activity in molecular biology. RNA is isolated from million...

To the rescue!

07 Nov 2011

GPCR-specific PDF reader to easily review, find and analyse data and relevant literature.

Your personal guide to modelling

03 Nov 2011

When asked to contribute a paper on genome-scale metabolic reconstruction and models to Methods in Enzymology, authors Filipe Santos, Joost Boele and ...

Data fusion at high level

02 Nov 2011

In the omics field, combining data from different sources – i.e. data fusion – is becoming more and more important. In so-called high-level data fusio...

RSG Netherlands visits GeneTwister

31 Oct 2011

On September the 16th RSG Netherlands (the Regional Student Group) organised their second company visit. They visited GeneTwister in Wageningen, a bio...

A superficial analysis?

25 Oct 2011

The interactions at the interface between the biomaterial used in a medical device, such as stents or implants, and surrounding tissue cells are cruci...

MADMAX: Advanced analysis, easy to use

21 Oct 2011

The MADMAX database is specifically designed to store, manage and analyse data from a variety of ~omics sources. To demonstrate the features and power...

Overcoming bias in phosphoproteomics

21 Oct 2011

Phosphorylation, i.e. adding a phosphate group to proteins, is a key step in numerous biological processes and pathways. Insight into the functional d...

Snooker: a tool to predict medicine binding sites on GPCRs

14 Oct 2011

G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) are important drug targets for various diseases and of major interest to pharmaceutical companies. Bioinformatics ...

Van Beek models Lance Armstrong climbing Alpe d'Huez

14 Oct 2011

The human physiological system is stressed to its limits during endurance sports competition events. Hans van Beek (VUMC) and other NBIC Faculty descr...

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