This year, the Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC) awarded two out of five ASDI projects to scientists from the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center. The proposals submitted by Jeroen de Ridder and Alexandre Bonvin will each receive € 500,000; 50% in direct funding and 50% in in-kind funding...
Prospective students were offered a virtual reality (VR) experience allowing them to “dive” into a protein structure in 3D. During the open days of Utrecht University (November 18/19) this was a new experience for most of the teenagers. Inside and from the outside The task for the...
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....