Recent posts

• 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 […]

  Continue Reading...

• 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 […]

  Continue Reading...

• 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 […]

  Continue Reading...

• 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 […]

  Continue Reading...

• nVidia CUDA Bioinformatics: An Introduction

  • On Jul, 05, 2019
  •  Sander Bervoets

  Introduction As most readers of this blog will know, bioinformatics has always been a data-heavy field of research. Many computational problems within bioinformatics can scale up to the sky, from protein folding to calculating homology in sequences. But the real motherload of repetitive data was unleashed on the bioinformatics community when Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) […]

  Continue Reading...

• Meet BioCentric @ Personalised Therapeutics Conference, 10 July at the LUMC in Leiden

  • On Jul, 03, 2019
  •  admin

  Personalised medicine is considered one of the biggest improvements of the wellbeing of patients by reducing side-effects brought upon by using incorrect medication or wrong dosages. It will also increase therapy effectiveness and reduce costs and treatment timelines. But we are not there yet. A major hurdle is to convey the right medical data (like […]

  Continue Reading...

• Meet BioCentric @ Life Sciences & Health 010 Meeting, 20 June in the Rotterdam Science Tower

  • On Jun, 16, 2019
  •  admin

  Every couple of months, many innovative stakeholders, companies, and startups gather in the Rotterdam Science Tower to discuss the latest innovation trends within healthcare and life sciences in general. From pharma to VR to AI. This edition, Deep learning will be the main focus. Networking and meeting new people is a prime reason to come. […]

  Continue Reading...

• Meet BioCentric @ PoreLab Symposium, 14 March at Leiden University of Applied Sciences

  • On Mar, 07, 2019
  •  admin

  More then two years ago, a consortium of companies, universities and educational institutions that are situated around the Leiden BioSciencePark, founded the PoreLab. This joint venture aims to develop new products and applications for biotech, agrogenomics and healtcare with the newest DNA Sequencing technologies from Oxford Nanopore. Now, to celebrate and inform the public about […]

  Continue Reading...

• Meet BioCentric @ Roche Dialogues, 7 March 2019 in B. Amsterdam

  • On Mar, 03, 2019
  •  admin

  The pharma giant Roche would like to stay in the loop with regards to specialists and professionals in the healthcare sector. By organizing the Roche Dialogues, the company sets a theme to discus with healthcare providers and stakeholders in hospitals and medical centers throughout the Netherlands. This Thursday, the theme will be Personalized Medicine, please […]

  Continue Reading...

• Bioinformatics Frameworks Part 6: Rabix

  • On Feb, 04, 2019
  •  Sander Bervoets

  When Seven Bridges was conceived, a bioinformatics framework with this in mind didn’t exist yet. So, as those things go, the developers at Seven Bridges made their own language, Rabix, which they release as a beta to the public in 2017.

  Continue Reading...