Meet UBC Executive Committee member Ronnie de Jonge
Why do we need bioinformatics to understand plant-microbe interactions? Plant-microbe interactions, and host-microbe interactions in general, involve numerous different components including genes, proteins and metabolites. When evaluating plant-microbiome interactions this is further expanded with many highly diverse organisms. Bioinformatics is instrumental to integrate and manage large-scale datasets detailing these components that are generated to aid […]
Vice-dean of the Strategic Theme Life Sciences welcomes UBC members
2023 has brought some changes for the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. Apart from having a new daily board, the UBC is now embedded in the Strategic Theme Life Sciences. Although the process of embedding may not have been apparent to all UBC members, joining the Strategic Theme promises to create broad range of opportunities, says vice-dean […]
Meet UBC Executive Committee member Jayne Hehir-Kwa
How can bioinformatics help understand childhood cancer? Childhood cancer is different to adult cancer. While adult cancer is often influenced by environmental factors, these factors play less a role in childhood cancer. Instead, childhood cancer can be considered a collection of individually rare developmental disorders. Bioinformatics is important not only for analysing the genomic data, […]