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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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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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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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...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) […]
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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 […]
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