On 26-31 August 2018, BioSB, ELIXIR-NL, LUMC, ELIXIR-BE, and VIB will organise the first Belgian-Dutch Transcriptomics Summer School in Leuven, Belgium. Applications are open! This year there is not a separate BioSB RNAseq course but we have partnered up with VIB in Belgium to organise the course during a Summer School in Leuven, Belgium. The…
The course Optimisation techniques in Bioinformatics & Systems Biology will be held on February 12-16, 2018 in Wageningen. Many problems in bioinformatics and systems biology require at a certain moment application of some optimisation technique. When facing optimisation problems, many researchers suffice with applying a simple algorithm in Excel, coming to the conclusion that it…
You can now register for the BioSB/ELIXIR-L course Managing & Integrating Life Science Information (5th edition) which will be held on January 22-26 2018 in Amsterdam. With endorsements for FAIR* data stewardship ranging from Nature Genetics to the G7, and increasing pressure from funders for much stricter data management, FAIR data stewardship skills will be…
Registration is now open for the NGS RNA-seq data analysis course that will be held from 6-8 November 2017 in Leiden. The BioSB research school and partner LUMC are organizing a 3-day course on RNA-seq data analysis. This is an advanced course for people with experience in NGS. The course will consist of lectures, Galaxy…
Registration is now open for the BioSB course Protein Structures which will be held from October 30 unitil November 3 at the Radboudumc in Nijmegen. Course description In the right hands, protein structures are a ‘power’ful tool to answer bio-molecular questions. Knowledge of the structure is a pre-requisite for rational drug design, for biotechnology, for…
You can now register for the BioSB Pattern Recognition course (5th edition) which will be held from September 25 – 29 in Amsterdam (AMC). In this course, we will introduce basic techniques from the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning to solve bioinformatics problems in a mixture of theory and lab sessions. After having…
The next edition of the BioSB course Quantitative & Predictive Modelling will be held from June 26 to 30, 2017 in Wageningen. In this Quantitative and Predictive Modelling course the participants learn how to describe the dynamic behaviour of biological systems and to integrate experimental data. Concepts of modelling in terms of differential equations are…
You can still register for the one-day BioSB introduction course: ‘Kick start R’ (4th edition) that is planned on May 19, 2017 at the VU University in Amsterdam. It is a one-day introduction to the possibilities of the statistical calculation environment R for those who would like to use it, or have already started using R…
You can now register for the BioSB course: ‘Programming in Matlab’ which will be held on March 13, 2017 in Wageningen. You can find more information about this 1-day Introductory course and on how to register for the course here.
From 26 – 28 September 2016 the 6th edition of the RNA-seq data analysis course is organised in Leiden. The course aims at PhD students, postdocs, and senior researchers who are interested in, planning, or already working with next-generation sequencing. We welcome researchers from both the genomics and bioinformatics fields. Currently available technologies as well as hardware…
Recently three BioSB courses were organised successfully: the 4th edition of the ‘Pattern Recognition’ course in March 2015, the ‘Kick of R’ course in April 2015 and the ‘Advanced de novo assembly’ course in June 2015. The courses received very good reviews and below you can read a short update about each of the courses. Pattern Recognition…
In the upcoming months two courses are being organized related to genome assembly. The course scope and topics as well as the specific target audiences are specified on the respective course page. The Leiden course Advanced de novo assembly and resolving complex genomic regions (1-3 June 2015) offers a wide perspective on genome assembly and…
In the first months of the new year, we offer you several interesting courses. The first one, entitled O2 for Personalized Systems Medicine: from inspiration to aspiration is related to the systems-biology of individualized medicine and will be organized in Amsterdam on January 2015. In February 2015, the course Data Integration in the Life Sciences…
The 4th edition of the RNAseq advanced data analysis course was hosted by LUMC’s Pathology department, from July 7-9, 2014. Thirty participants from the Netherlands and abroad were submerged for three days in the theory and practice of RNAseq data analysis. For some more biology-oriented participants, it was the first experience with command line scripting.…
Metagenomics has quickly become one of the most important discovery tools in microbial ecology. Metagenomics is a powerful tool to study the organisms in microbial communities, that has numerous applications in many areas of biomedical science. By bypassing the need for laboratory culturing, this technology can unlock the massive uncultured microbial diversity, enabling the microbial…
On July 7-9 2014 the 4th edition of the Advanced NGS course: RNA-seq data analysis is organised in Leiden. There are still some seats left for this course! This 3-day course is an advanced course for people with experience in NGS. The course will consist of seminars and hands-on command line, Galaxy and R practicals and…
Registration is now open for the following three courses: Comparative Genomics: from evolution to function (2nd edition), June 2-6, Amsterdam Comparative genomics between species and between types of data facilitates the understanding of what these data really reflect about the underlying processes. Comparative genomics therewith relies on a solid understanding of basic elements of Bioinformatics like…
In spring 2014, the “Metagenomic Approaches and Data Analysis” course provided over thirty students from academia and industry with three days of hands-on experience using bioinformatic tools to analyze metagenomic data. The workshops included taxonomic and functional annotations of metagenomic samples, metagenome assembly, and microbial network inference. 2014 was the second year the “Metagenomic Approaches…
An ERASysAPP training course on ‘Data Integration in the Life Sciences’ is in preparation for the autumn of 2014. The Netherlands systems biology platform (SB@NL) will organise an international ERASysAPP training course on ‘Data Integration in the Life Sciences’ in the autumn of 2014. The FP7 ERA‐net programme for Applied Systems Biology (ERASysAPP) is a…
First course on systems biology for personalised medicine was ‘awesome’! On January 30-31 2014, the Amsterdam Institute for Molecules, Medicines and Systems (AIMMS) held one of the first courses on personalised medicine that linked molecules to patients. Around hands-on in silico tutorials on genome-wide metabolic maps, molecular structures, dynamic modelling, and network-based drug design, 25…