NBIC news

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, ...

Trait project enforced with Bioinformatics Research Assistant

12 Nov 2012

In October a new Bioinformatics Research Assistant, Pravin Pawar,  joined the CTMM TraIT project. He has started in the TraIT work package that i...

Galaxy on cloud

08 Nov 2012

Collaboration between NBIC and the e-BioGrid team resulted in a new service: NBIC Galaxy on Cloud.  The migration of Galaxy to the cloud allows e...

VarioML: lightweight option for variation data

08 Nov 2012

In the global effort to unify genetic variation databases, covering human and model organism data, many obstacles still have to be scaled. Integrating...

Duplicates are not the same (anymore)

06 Nov 2012

Gene duplication is a common phenomenon and plays as important role in evolution, because after duplication, the resulting paralogs each go their own ...

Tool: CLI-mate

23 Oct 2012

To inform as many people as possible about the large list of bioinformatics tools available, we will monthly present a tool in the news. This month we...

2nd Autumn School Bioinformatics Essen-Nijmegen

16 Oct 2012

Gert Vriend (UMC St Radboud Nijmegen) for the second time organizes an Autumn School in collaboration with Daniel Hoffmann of the University of Duisbu...

TNO and Sanquin in NBIC consortium

11 Oct 2012

The NBIC consortium has been extended with two new partner organisations: TNO and Sanquin.

TNO is an independent research organisation whose expertis...

The power of combining

09 Oct 2012

Being able to predict the clinical outcome in individual breast cancer patients is essential to ensure each patient gets the right therapy (and is spa...

Bioinformatics in public

08 Oct 2012

The bionformatics@school project not only visits schools and trains teachers; it also promotes bioinformatics to the general public. September 28, for...