Marijne Schijns (Utrecht University) is the winner of the public poster award for students at the Science for Life Conference 2016. The jury, 257 of the 400 congress attendants, indicated Marijne's presentation about Protein-protein binding affinity prediction applied to the docking problem, as the best Students' presentation. Marijne receives a voucher for...
UBC community members played a major role in the 15th European Conference on Computational Biology. Two of seven key note speakers were from UBC Utrecht and the main computational biology event in 2016 had it’s poster prize sponsored by UBC. About 1.200 experts in bioinformatics, biology,...
The High-Performance Computing (HPC) facility speeds up computational tasks of any size. The facility has proven to be very stable, and is maintained by a group of expert and friendly admins. Stop running computational tasks on your own PC, and benefit from the HPC facility....
Twelve Master’s students participate in the new Master’s profile Bioinformatics. Why did these Life Science students choose for this profile? Diversity The group of students in Life Sciences have a diverse background. Their home countries vary as much as their Master’s programme. The majority of students in the...
The Princess Máxima Center (PMC) is the new institute that aims to cure all children with cancer with fewer side effects and less long-term complications and a new UBC partner. Being part of a larger bioinformatics community is essential for achieving PMC’s goals and improving...