‘Proteins are hardly monogamous’ Alexandre Bonvin is Professor of Computational Structural Biology. He tells us about his research and what the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center means to him. “In a way, we are working with three different kinds of networks: we are studying networks of proteins, for...
Dear colleague, Despite the long and prosperous history of Bioinformatics in Utrecht, it took a while to embed Bioinformatics within Utrecht Science Park. In 2014, we were awarded a focus grant to found the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center (UBC). Since its inception, we have made significant progress...
The EGI Foundation announced an agreement between a group of EGI resource centres and the MoBrain research collaboration. Thanks to the agreement, MoBrain will be able to access the High-Throughput Computing and File Storage services they need for their research. The main objective of the MoBrain competence centre, led...
Berend Snel, Professor of Bioinformatics at Utrecht University, has been awarded a Vici grant of 1.5 million Euros. Prof. Snel aims to use the Vici grant to determine whether there is a system behind the phenomenon of similar genes fulfilling different functions in different organisms....
All PhD-candidates, young researchers and students in the fields of computational biology, bioinformatics, systems biology and related fields are most welcome to attend the annual retreat. Keynotes will be given by Fiona Nielsen, founder and CEO of Repositive and Jonathan Karr, Fellow at the Institute for Genomics...