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• Annual BioSB Conference, 9 & 10 May 2023, Egmond

  • On Mar, 15, 2023
  •  admin

  Join us at the Netherlands Annual Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Conference (BioSB 2023) on 9 and 10 May 2023 in Hotel Zuiderduin in Egmond! This event brings together experts in bioinformatics, systems biology, and life sciences to share knowledge and innovations. Expect inspiring talks, posters, and networking opportunities. Don’t miss out on the latest developments […]

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• ELIXIR community meets for All Hands 2022, 7-10 June, Amsterdam

  • On Mar, 29, 2022
  •  admin

  You’re invited to the ELIXIR All Hands meeting in the riverside Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam for four days between 7 and 10 of June. The meeting brings together members of the ELIXIR community from across the ELIXIR Nodes, and collaborators from partner organisations, in order to review ELIXIR’s achievements and activities so far and discuss […]

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• BioSB 2021 conference, June 15-16 2021, Online

  • On Feb, 08, 2021
  •  admin

  The main annual bioinformatics conference of the Netherlands will be online. We are excited to announce that the 7th edition of the Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology conference will be organized on June 15 and 16, and BioCentric will be present. To stimulate cross boundary interactivity, participants can meet each other online through the network […]

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• Next in Nextflow: DSL2

  • On Jul, 20, 2020
  •  Sander Bervoets

  During the ISBM 2020 online conference (iscb.org), the creator of Nextflow, Paolo Di Tommaso, introduced the next iteration of Nextflow: DSL2. To quickly recap Nextflow, it’s a framework languange that simplifies the creation of scalable workflows for researchers and developers, using a Groovy-based scripting. It manages tasks across diverse computing environments, ensuring reproducibility and scalability. […]

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• NL-RSE meet-up, March 13, online

  • On Mar, 06, 2020
  •  admin

  The Dutch Techcentre for Life Science (DTLS) and the community of Research Software Engineers from the Netherlands (NL-RSE) stands as a beacon of collaboration, fostering cutting-edge data science across the Netherlands’ life and data science community.

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• Science Meets Business Digital Health, 20 February @ Novio Techcenter Nijmegen

  • On Feb, 13, 2020
  •  admin

  Science Meets Business (SMB) facilitates and supports start-ups, young SME’s and entrepreneurial scientists. The monthly meetings Science Meets Business aim to connect people and this months meeting is about digital healthcare.

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• Meet BioCentric @ Science meets Business, 14 November, LUMC research building, Leiden

  • On Nov, 11, 2019
  •  admin

  The Science meets Business meeting is a populair recurring event in the Bio Science Park of Leiden. It serves as both as an industry update of ongoing developments  and a network occasion for the many Bio R&D groups that are located on the Bio Science Park campus. BioCentric will be present this 14 November at […]

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• Meet BioCentric @ the Netherlands Quantified Self meetup, 8 October @ Seats2Meet in Utrecht

  • On Oct, 04, 2019
  •  admin

  In an ongoing attempt to better know themselves, their health and increase their performance, many individuals turn to data generated by their own mind and body. Tools like sensors, trackers and wearables are growing in sophistication and applications. Want to know how good your sleep is and how to improve it? Monitor your sleep and […]

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• Meet BioCentric @ Deep Learning Works by IBM, 12 September 2019 in B. Amsterdam

  • On Sep, 06, 2019
  •  admin

  Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning are seen by many to be the tools a new industrial revolution, by extracting value and insights from a underutilized resource; data. As such, applying these tools to biological data is becoming more and more important for many companies and institutes. Organized by Tweakers.net and IBM, the Deep Learning Works […]

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• nVidia CUDA Bioinformatics: BarraCUDA

  • On Jul, 19, 2019
  •  Sander Bervoets

  Introduction Today, we will continue our journey into the current state-of-the-art of bioinformatics tools that make use of nVidia’s CUDA API. I will discuss specific bioinformatics problems, the default tools that are used in the industry and the possible Graphics Processor (GPU) based alternatives. If you want to read more about the history and purpose […]

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