European Open Science Cloud portal
The European Open Sciene Cloud (EOSC) offers a new virtual environment with open services for storage, management, analysis and re-use of research data. EOSC expects that 1.7 million European researchers and 70 million professionals in science and technology will use the portal, that supports Open Science and FAIR data use. Open Science and FAIR data […]
Defining Quality Virus Data(sets)
Nature Biotechnology publishes standards paper with guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses
€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 the project’s viability. Thanks to the work done in the […]
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 help specify and train the proper neural network to assist […]
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 work do you do? “As a researcher, I […]