New role of ocean viruses in life cycle of raw materials discovered
In a search for new viruses in the oceans, scientists led by Ohio State University have discovered new bacteriophage types that may play important roles in the global nutrient cycles. These roles have thus far primarily been attributed to bacteria. The viruses were among thousands of newly identified viruses. Utrecht University bioinformatician Bas Dutilh identified […]
Lecture by Heineken Prize award winner Jennifer Doudna on Crispr-Cas
We are very proud to announce that prof. Jennifer Doudna will give the KNAW Heineken Lecture ‘The structural biology and applications of the CRISPR-CAS technology‘ at Utrecht University on September 28. This year, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) awarded the 2016 Dr H.P. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics (a sum of […]
Announcing the DISVIS web server
DisVis allows you to visualizes and quantify the information content of distance restraints between macromolecular complexes. It performs a full and systematic 6 dimensional search of the three translational and rotational degrees of freedom to determine the number of complexes consistent with the restraints. In addition, it outputs the percentage of restraints being violated and […]
DTL Focus Meeting on data integration, standards and the FAIR principles in proteomics
On 29 August 2016, the next DTL Focus Meeting on data integration, standards and the FAIR principles in proteomics will be held in Utrecht. You can register at the bottom of this page. The goal of this DTL Focus Meeting is to discuss the current data quality assessment approaches, data format standards, multi-omics data integration, big data and bioinformatics […]
DNA sequencing and evolution in the virtual Utrecht Bioinformatics Center
Geert Kops wants to find the answer to a main question: how does cell division work at the molecular level? The answer to that question is relevant for our understanding of cancer. Berend Snel’s work focuses on the genomic evolution of complex life processes. In their research, they both deal with bioinformatics, the science that […]