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 […]
Winning whitepaper on deep learning for high-performance computing
2020 HPC Innovation and ROI Award-winning whitepaper on deep learning for high-performance computing
Start of the Bioinformatics and BioComplexity Master’s program
Bioinformatics and BioComplexity Master’s program started with 31 students. 95% of them successfully passed the first difficult courses immediately.
BioSB2020: first online edition Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference
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 […]
UBC expertise: Developmental epigenomics
The Kind group focuses on single-cell (epi)genomics methods to study the principles governing cellular decision making.