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Cracking mitochondrial ribosome assembly

02 Feb 2012

So far, already an extensive number of factors involved in the biogenesis of cytosolic ribosomes have been identified. However, when it comes to mitoc...

Students visit BBC 2011 in Luxembourg

02 Feb 2012

For several years, NBIC has sponsored students to attend scientific conferences, like the NBIC Annual Conference or the Benelux Bioinformatics Confere...

From harmless to harmful

31 Jan 2012

Berend Snel (UU) et al. reconstruct the oomycete genome evolution.

The Longevity Puzzle

31 Jan 2012

Willemijn Passtoors (LUMC) and colleagues, among which NBIC faculty Judith Boer (LUMC), succeeded in coming up with a new small piece of the puzzle us...

Towards interoperable bioscience data

30 Jan 2012

Chris Evelo (Maastricht) and 50 other researchers representing 37 research groups plead in Nature Genetics to use the ISA standard in order create dat...

Crossing borders

23 Jan 2012

NBIC Faculty 't Hoen (LUMC) et al develop the Dandelion algorithm to construct and train intraspecies Bayesian networks.

Driven by design

23 Jan 2012

Functional genomics experiments are increasingly determined by a predefined experimental design. The design drives data generation and determines how ...

NGI calls for proposals Venture Challenge

19 Jan 2012

The Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) calls for proposals for their Venture Challenge Spring 2012. Deadline for submission: March 6th.

The V...

Resequencing: important, but hardly rewarded

17 Jan 2012

Van Hijum, Siezen et al. resequenced L. Plantarum

Typing tuberculosis

12 Jan 2012

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the world's major health problems. It is estimated that roughly one-third of the global population is infected with Mycoba...