VIB Bioinformatics Core

Published Date: january 25, 2019: GENEVESTIGATOR is an innovative online platform enabling researchers to globally explore public and proprietary expression data for research and clinical applications.

GENEVESTIGATOR News for You!

• New Feature for Condition Search Tools: Sort the identified conditions by the average expression of multiple genes
• Enrichment of human gene expression data in the research areas of ALS, stem cells and various cancers including prostate and melanoma
• Enrichment of rodent gene expression data with an emphasis on NASH, cancer and transcriptional regulation of gene expression

All VIB scientists have access to Genevestigator, read more about Genevestigator

Published Date: January 8th, 2019: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

Starting from end december 2018, BITS is offering you access to two more tools in IPA.

Please note that our concurrent access limit is not changed and that when many users try to access IPA at the same time, an error message will appear (no panic, just retry later on)

Published Date: December 20, 2018: GENEVESTIGATOR is an innovative online platform enabling researchers to globally explore public and proprietary expression data for research and clinical applications.

GENEVESTIGATOR News for You!

New data has been released in GENEVESTIGATOR, for you to enjoy as an early Christmas gift.

The main therapeutic areas covered this time are:

• Autoimmune diseases, including Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Inflammatory
• Bowel Disease Metabolic diseases, including NASH, diabetes and nutrition studies

All VIB scientists have access to Genevestigator, read more about Genevestigator

Published Date: October 16, 2018: GENEVESTIGATOR is an innovative online platform enabling researchers to globally explore public and proprietary expression data for research and clinical applications.

Genevestigator now includes a new tool called 2-Gene Plot, read below about it! 

Published Date: July 17th, 2018: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

IPA should upgrade itself at the next launch; If not, you can find the installer here

Published Date: September 26th, 2018: This article is relevant to IPA© and other Qiagen products requiring web login.

Published Date: July 16th, 2018: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

E-Notebook (ELN) was introduced at VIB in 2010. Since then many research groups and core facilities adopted the system and now use it on a regular basis.

In order to keep up with the new MS Windows environment and MS Office versions, we plan to upgrade the current version of E-Notebook to the latest and greatest. PerkinElmer will perform the upgrade in the week of 20-24 August 2018. The application will therefore not be available on the first 3-4 days of the week. We will try to limit the downtime to a minimum and will inform you when the application is back online.

The new E-Notebook manual will be published soon. For more information or if you have any questions, mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Published Date: July 17th, 2018: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

HELIS Academy: improving the ‘industry readiness’ of Life Sciences & Health students

In April 2018, HELIS Academy was launched. Funded by Interreg Vlaanderen-Nederland (EU), the project’s main aim is to bridge the gap between the competences required for jobs in the Life Sciences & Health sector and the existing training programmes.

The project is executed by ten Dutch and Flemish partners from academia and industry, including VIB represented by the VIB Bioinformatics Core. The Dutch-Flemish collaboration aims to assess the teaching and training needs of Life Sciences & Health companies in the Netherlands and Flanders. In addition, the partners will develop and offer courses to help students acquire the desired skills and competences. HELIS Academy will focus on the general ‘industry readiness’ of students in Life Sciences & Health at all levels of education. In addition, it will focus on specific skills for certain types of jobs within the sector.

More information

• Information about HELIS Academy on the Interreg website (in Dutch)
• HELIS Academy flyer

HELIS Academy is gefinancierd binnen het Interreg V-programma Vlaanderen-Nederland, het grensoverschrijdend samenwerkingsprogramma met financiële steun van het Europees Fonds voor Regionale Ontwikkeling. Meer info: www.grensregio.eu