Virtual reality meets proteins
Marijne Schijns wins poster award at Science for Life conference
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 attending a congress or summer school of her own […]
ECCB 2016: 15th European Conference on Computational Biology
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, computational biology, medicine and systems biology met in The Hague […]
Philip Lijnzaad shares his HPC experiences
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. Philip Lijnzaad already does so and shares his experience. FairShare […]
12 students start in Master’s profile Bioinformatics
Twelve Master’s students participate in the new Master’s profile Bioinformatics. Why did these Life Science students choose for this profile? Diversity The group of students in Life Sciences have a diverse background. Their home countries vary as much as their Master’s programme. The majority of students in the Master’s profile Bioinformatics are enrolled in the Molecular […]