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Netherlands Metabolomics Centre continues!

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Unilever, DSM, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, TNO, Plant Sciences Group Wageningen and Leiden University have taken the initiative to set up a Metabolomics foundation. “They are convinced of the importance to have an organised metabolomics community in the Netherlands”, Merlijn van Rijswijk explains. “During the last 5 years we have built a strong network of research groups, that has a strong reputation… Continue reading →

Norvig Web Data Science Award 2014

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SURFsara and Common Crawl wish to give everybody the possibility to analyze open web data. Because of this they are hosting the second edition of the Norvig Web Data Science Award, a challenge to all researchers and students in the Benelux. Free access is provided to the SURFsara Hadoop cluster with a copy of the full Common Crawl web crawl… Continue reading →

DTL Galaxy toolshed featured in Galaxy newsletter

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Together with a Galaxy server (historically available as http://galaxy.nbic.nl/), DTL is hosting a so-called toolshed, a sort of app-store for bioinformatics tools in Galaxy. Many groups world wide are now running their own Galaxy servers, but fewer have an associated tool shed to showcase their self developed tools. The DTL Galaxy toolshed with the nationally developed tools is getting world-wide exposure… Continue reading →

CGtag: complete genomics toolkit and annotation in a cloud-based Galaxy

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A paper entitled “CGtag: complete genomics toolkit and annotation in a cloud-based Galaxy” was published in Giga Science Journal. This work is funded by the CTMM-TraIT project. The author team consists of members from Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands Bioinformatics Center, and Netherlands Institute of Ecology. The research infrastructure is largely based on the NBIC Galaxy server and is supported by… Continue reading →

Workshop “Galaxy and Cloud solutions”

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DTL and the Virtual Lab of Plant Breeding (VLPB) consortium successfully co-organised the workshop “Galaxy and Cloud Solutions”. The rationale of organising this workshop is that many companies are facing a tsunami of big data sets and organize themselves in consortia, such as VLPB and Breed4Food, to develop bioinformatics solutions to analyze this data.The aim of this one-day course was… Continue reading →

The next generation of life sciences starts in the Netherlands

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On the 23d of October 2013 DTL organised a workshop on Next Generation Life Science (NGLS) at the ‘In de Driehoek’ conference centre in Utrecht. Over 70 people representing research groups from various life science sectors participated in a lively meeting, with interesting lectures and break-out discussion sessions.  Lectures were given by Alain van Gool (RU), Robert Hall (WUR), Bas… Continue reading →

NBIC: First official meeting GOBLET

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November 6th was the first official AGM (Annual General Meeting) of the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET). Following a nomination process that started in September and a voting process throughout October, the first point on the agenda was to announce the results of the committee elections. From the Netherlands Celia van Gelder (Radboud umc, NBIC) has… Continue reading →

Summary NGLS workshop

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On the 23d of October 2013 DTL organised a workshop on Next Generation Life Science (NGLS) at the ‘In de Driehoek’ conference centre in Utrecht (see programme). Over 70 people representing research groups from various life science sectors participated in a lively meeting, with interesting lectures and break-out discussion sessions.  Lectures were given by Alain van Gool (RU), Robert Hall… Continue reading →

Summary NGLS workshop

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On the 23d of October 2013 DTL organised a workshop on Next Generation Life Science (NGLS) at the ‘In de Driehoek’ conference centre in Utrecht (see programme). Over 70 people representing research groups from various life science sectors participated in a lively meeting, with interesting lectures and break-out discussion sessions. Lectures were given by Alain van Gool (RU), Robert Hall… Continue reading →