VIB Bioinformatics Core

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

Last December we organized the community meeting on bioinformatics and computational biology. Now we want to encourage a more specific field by organizing a meeting for software developers and programmers. These VIB Developers Meetings will be more interactive, more focussed on specific topics and will be organized on rotating locations.

Together with Demet Turan and Niels Hulstaert (CompOmics lab) we organise the first developers meeting on Wednesday 28 March 2018 at the VIB Center for Medical Biotechnology in Ghent.

If you want to register for this meeting, please complete the registration form on this link before 25 March.

Published Date: December 22nd, 2017: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

Paula Andrea Martinez joins us in December. Paula is a data scientist with background in bioinformatics. She worked at The University of Queensland, Australia as specialized trainer for data analysis and data visualization. She is part of Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry as instructor, maintainer, mentor and trainer. ELIXIR Belgium, is welcoming Paula in the training platform as trainer. Within the ELIXIR Belgium framework, courses in providing FAIR data and applying data management strategies as well as workshops of the pipelining tool Galaxy and software best practices (data carpentry) will be developed. We look forward to connecting and learning from each other. Please visit Paula personal web site, the ELIXIR Belgium and our ELIXIR web page for more information and planning of courses. We will inform about events also via our twitter account @vibbioinfocore.

We are very happy to welcome Oren who joins the Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Initiative at VIB.

Oren's research and main scientific motivation is driven by the fundamental challenge to uncover the link between genes and functions, and filling the gaps in our current biological knowledge via application and implementation of computational algorithms tailored to handle big data. As such, he has spent considerate amount of time developing user-friendly platforms and interfaces for construction and analysis of regulatory networks of genes from specific plant metabolic pathways (Tzfadia et al., 2012, Tzfadia et al., 2016 and Itkin et al., 2013).

Novel, powerful computational approaches such as machine learning, guilt by association, and statistically robust bioinformatic methods combined with the rapidly increasing availability of ‘omics’ data sets (e.g., genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and fluxomics), provides the potential for integrating various layers of data sets for extending our biological knowledge.

With specific aim to make integrative biology accessible for the biologists research community, and provide a platform to integrate multiple data sources in a holistic manner, Oren will lead the development and implementation efforts of integrative bioinformatics infrastructure, algorithms, and software tools development at the VIB Bioinformatics Core. His emphasis will be on integration of data from research activities across VIB centers and Core facilities.

The second VIB Community Meeting on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will take place on 12 December 2017 in Brussels. In order to create a strong bioinformatics community, flash presentations of PhD students and postdocs in the field of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics are organized. During the afternoon, two parallel sessions are included, one on NGS/single-cell, Proteomics, Integrative Bioinformatics, and one on Developed@VIB. More information and registration on this link.

Published Date: October 12th, 2017: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

Published Date: August 04th, 2017: IPA© is a powerful web-based knowledge base system designed for biologists.

Published Date: June 22, 2017: GENEVESTIGATOR is an innovative online platform enabling researchers to globally explore public and proprietary expression data for research and clinical applications.

We are very pleased that the first collaborative paper of Lukasz, one of our three software developers, is out. Many thanks to Arne, Paco and Pieter from the BioIT Core at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research for all their hard work.
Read more at the open access version https://academic.oup.com/nar/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/nar/gkx376