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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...
Competition for genomics data analysis tools
01 Nov 2011
The company Complete Genomics organises a competition for innovative and unique tools for data analysis.
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...
Gene duplication leads to tissue specificity
14 Oct 2011
Gene duplication is one of the main mechanisms by which genomes can acquire novel functions. The group of NBIC Faculty Martijn Huynen studied the leve...
NBIC Education cited in Nature
13 Oct 2011
The NBIC Education programme BioWise is worldwide noted. Education programme leader Jaap Heringa and education project leader Celia van Gelder are quo...
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Highlights
The winner of the NBIC Young Investigator Award 2012 is Dr. Christian Gilissen, UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen....
Antoine van Kampen explains the ins and outs of (exome) sequence data analysis
Many software projects in the life sciences are written as "open source". But do we actually kn...
This course covers the recent advances in discovery informatics, with a focus on the application of e-sci...
Systems biology employs mathematical modelling of biological reaction networks by systems of nonlinear di...
NBIC, SIB, EBI and BTN (Bioinformatics Training Network) organise a one-day workshop related to bioinform...