First NIOZ-UBC webinar on Monday, April 12

The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is very happy to announce an online mini-conference on Monday April 12 (16:00 – 17:30) with three speakers from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research): Dr. Nina Dombrowski, MSc. Jeroen Hoekendijk and Dr. Julia Engelmann. All three speakers are currently using state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods to carry their research. A short introduction of the speakers and the title of their […]

Review paper on structural variant detection in cancer genomes

Research into the role of structural variants (SVs) in cancer has been limited due to difficulties in detection. UBC members Ianthe A. E. M. van Belzen, Alexander Schönhuth, Patrick Kemmeren & Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa explore current strategies for integrating SV callsets and to enable the use of tumor-specific SVs in precision oncology. Full-spectrum SV detection with high recall and […]

BioSB2020: first online edition Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference

BioSB2020

Close to three hundred participants from academia and industry joined us during the two-day event. This year’s edition has been different in many ways. Topics covered many aspects of life science research and ranged from microbial evolution to machine learning & AI and precision medicine. Scientific program Exciting keynotes from Erik van Nimwegen, Judith Zaugg […]