Dieter Stoker – Developer introductory Machine Learning course
When you meet Dieter, you might be overwhelmed by the sheer volume of words he can rapidly throw your way. Dieter’s enthusiasm immediately shone through as he started talking about his teaching role: “I’ve recently been hired to spruce up the BiBC Master’s programme with an extra Machine Learning course, focussing on hands-on practice. This […]
Meet Joséphine Daub, coordinator of the Cancer Genomics course
Variety in working methods So, what is it that you teach the students about cancer genomics? “In the course, students learn about next generation sequencing techniques that are used to detect mutations and structural variants in tumors, how to apply them in cancer research and diagnostics and what challenges you encounter doing cancer genomics. Real-life […]
UBC webinar about COVID-19 sequencing in New Zealand on May 10
The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is happy to announce their next online seminar on Monday May 10 (16:00-17:30). Joep de Ligt and Pjotr Prins will present their work on COVID-19 sequencing in New Zealand and the PubSeq SARS-CoV-2 public sequence resource that originated from an online biohackathon last year. To attend the webinar, please send an […]
First NIOZ-UBC webinar on Monday, April 12
The Utrecht Bioinformatics Center is very happy to announce an online mini-conference on Monday April 12 (16:00 – 17:30) with three speakers from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research): Dr. Nina Dombrowski, MSc. Jeroen Hoekendijk and Dr. Julia Engelmann. All three speakers are currently using state-of-the-art bioinformatics methods to carry their research. A short introduction of the speakers and the title of their […]
Review paper on structural variant detection in cancer genomes
Research into the role of structural variants (SVs) in cancer has been limited due to difficulties in detection. UBC members Ianthe A. E. M. van Belzen, Alexander Schönhuth, Patrick Kemmeren & Jayne Y. Hehir-Kwa explore current strategies for integrating SV callsets and to enable the use of tumor-specific SVs in precision oncology. Full-spectrum SV detection with high recall and […]