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 […]
Research of the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center in short movie
What should people know about the Utrecht Bioinformatics Center? Examples from Utrecht Bioinformatics research such as metagenomics, cancer diagnostics and predicting protein structures. We are proudly announcing that we now have a short movie about Bioinformatics research in Utrecht. The movie explains why bioinformatics is essential in the big data era and why every life […]
Successful HADDOCK workshop: new online tutorial about cross-linking data from Mass Spectrometry
The HADDOCK team gave a two days workshop in Saudi Arabia, consisting of lectures and hands-on computer tutorials using their online educational resources and HADDOCK web portal. Sharing knowledge The participants to the workshop learned about the challenges associated with the modeling of biomolecular complexes and what HADDOCK can offer to solve their specific research questions. The HADDOCK web […]
Netherlands eScience Center grants two projects to UBC scientists
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 in the form of support from eScience research engineers. Googling […]
Bioinformatics Profile for Life Scientists
The analysis of large data sets is now unthinkable without the use of bioinformatics. The goal of the bioinformatics profile is to enable life scientists to better interpret and analyse their data by using appropriate bioinformatics methods. The main and most important part of the profile for Master’s students is a bioinformatics internship, as bioinformatics […]