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

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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 […]

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Bioinformatics Frameworks Part 6: Rabix

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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.

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Meet BioCentric @ Science meets Business, 13 December at BioPartner 1 in Leiden

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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 13 December in […]

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Meet BioCentric @ Genetic Personalised Healthcare meetup by Futurefood.io, 20 November in Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam

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Futurefood.io is a multimedia initiative focused on the future of personalized food and healthcare. They have organized a meet-up to discuss the possibilities of genetics and sequencing to provide answers and solutions to maximize your health and lifestyle.

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Meet BioCentric @ Impact Startup Fest 2018, Fokker Terminal in The Hague, 2 October

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There are many Startup Events in the Netherlands these days. The Impact Startup Fest is geared towards startups that want to make society better in a broader sense then just creating a product and earning money.

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Bioinformatics Frameworks Part 5: Cromwell and WDL

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Recently I visited the DTL Programmers Meeting, where I had a discussion with members of the SASC bioinformatics development group. For them, bioinformatics pipelines are more about scalibilty and manageablity, not about user-friendliness or readability. They opted for Cromwell, a framework language maintained by the Broad Institute.

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