Start of the Bioinformatics and BioComplexity Master’s program

Bioinformatics and BioComplexity Master’s program started with 31 students. 95% of them successfully passed the first difficult courses immediately.
BioSB2020: first online edition Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference

Close to three hundred participants from academia and industry joined us during the two-day event. This year’s edition has been different in many ways. Topics covered many aspects of life science research and ranged from microbial evolution to machine learning & AI and precision medicine. Scientific program Exciting keynotes from Erik van Nimwegen, Judith Zaugg […]
UBC expertise: Developmental epigenomics

The Kind group focuses on single-cell (epi)genomics methods to study the principles governing cellular decision making.
Introduction UBC newsletter November 2020

This newsletter finds you when we are near the end of the 50 years bioinformatics celebratory year and the academic year 2020-2021 well underway. 2020 has been a very disruptive year for all of us, and with the recently increasing number of rising covid-19 cases, the coming months will remain challenging. We do hope that […]
Big Data Core in Princess Máxima Center available for UBC community
To be able to take steps in research, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood cancer, smart handling of large amounts of data is an absolute must for the Princess Máxima Center. The management and access to this ever-growing amount of data have been key in how the Big Data Core has been set up. Working with […]