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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...
Competition for genomics data analysis tools
01 Nov 2011
The company Complete Genomics organises a competition for innovative and unique tools for data analysis.
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...
Online demonstration of OpenPHACTS
07 Oct 2011
The knowledge management project Open PHACTS (Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store) demonstrates the results of the first 6 months of the projec...
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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...