Anna-Lena Lamprecht is an assistant professor in Software Technology at Utrecht University, within the Department of Information and Computing Sciences. She describes herself as a Research Software Engineering (RSE) academic, focusing on software development processes in research, and developing methods and technology to improve them....
The detailed knowledge we have of a small number of viruses conceals the fact that we know nothing or hardly anything about the vast majority of them. More genetic research is needed to map the origin and evolution of viruses Thorough exploration of the viral world...
Cancer mutations can be caused by common gut bacteria carried by many people. This was demonstrated by researchers from the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) and Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands. By exposing cultured human mini-guts to a particular strain of Escherichia coli bacteria, they uncovered that...
Bioinformatics is now a mature and thriving research field, indispensable in addressing life science research challenges....
The European Research Council has awarded the latest ERC Consolidator Grants; two of them will go to research related to Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. An ERC Consolidator Grant is worth two million euros and will enable a research group to do five years of research. [caption id="attachment_534"...