14 Jan Defining Quality Virus Data(sets)
Nature Biotechnology publishes standards paper with guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses...
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15 Nov €5,7 million towards future-proof lettuce varieties
The LettuceKnow project, led by Utrecht University Professor Guido van den Ackerveken, has attracted a 4 million euro Perspectief grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Six major seed-breeding companies have topped up this sum with an additional 1.7 million euros to ensure...
30 Oct Transforming HPC Research with AI Approaches
To investigate the enhancement of traditional HPC simulations, SURFsara selected four scientific use cases spanning very different scientific domains. Prof. Alexandre Bonvin decided to work with SURFsara as they bring domain-specific expertise in choosing the right AI tools and approach along with the ability to...
25 Oct UBC coordinator: Adrien Melquiond
Adrien is a senior postdoc in the group of Computational Structural Biology, headed by Prof. Alexandre Bonvin. As an insider in the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center, he is the perfect fit to become the coordinator of the focus area Integrative Bioinformatics for Life Sciences and Sustainability. What sort of...
22 Oct UBC symposium: 5th edition
With an exciting, full day program centered around Big data in the Life Sciences, the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center celebrated its’ fifth anniversary with fellow bioinformaticians and computational biologists. Relevance of bioinformatics The day was initiated by Berend Snel, chair of the UBC, Gerrit van Meer, former dean...