CSIC – Estación Experimental de Aula Dei (EEAD), Zaragoza, Spain by Teshome Mulugeta, NMBU I am so grateful to NORBIS that I was given the opportunity to travel to EEAD-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain as a visiting PhD student. It was a useful experience to me to work and talk with several outstanding people. My visit…Continue reading Learning advanced analysis of gene regulation in Zaragoza
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Want to organise a course or a workshop with support from NORBIS?
Do you carry an idea for a course or a workshop within the fields of bioinformatics, biostatistics or systems biology? Want to invite international experts to give lectures at this event? Once again it is time for NORBIS to ask you to propose a course or a workshop to be organised with financial and administrative…Continue reading Want to organise a course or a workshop with support from NORBIS?
The same principles behind the internet, social networks and biological networks
Illustration: Colourbox NORBIS, supported by CCBIO, DLN and CBU, recently hosted a workshop on “Network Biology/Integromics Bioinformatics – Applications Towards Medicine” at Grand Hotel Terminus in Bergen, August 23rd-25th 2017. Konstantina Dimitrakopoulou and Eli Synnøve Vidhammer at CCBIO have written a nice report about the workshop at the CCBIO webpages, which you can read here. In…Continue reading The same principles behind the internet, social networks and biological networks
A report from our third annual national conference at Sommarøy
Snorre Sulheim has written a nice report from our third conference at Sommarøy, for the Centre for Digital Life Norway here, thank you so much Snorre! For more photos from the conference, please see our Facebook albums here and here.
An autumn with Bayesian approaches in Vienna
Hi, my name is Aliaksandr Hubin and I am a PhD student at the department of Mathematics of the University of Oslo. In this report I would like to share my international exchange experience, which took place in Autumn 2017 and was funded by the NORBIS travel grant. During my exchange I was…Continue reading An autumn with Bayesian approaches in Vienna
Learn ‘High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics’
Want to learn how to effectively use HPC clusters for running computationally or data intensive bioinformatics applications? Register now to join our course on ‘High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics‘, which runs in Oslo 16-27 April, by Torbjørn Rognes et al. Read more and register here by 1st February (for obtaining credits, the deadlines are as…Continue reading Learn ‘High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics’
Register now for ‘Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis’
We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the NORBIS course ‘Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis’, which will take place at University of Oslo 8-12 January 2018. This course introduces statistical methods in genetic relatedness and pedigree analysis, with applications in linkage analysis, relatedness inference and forensic genetics, and…Continue reading Register now for ‘Statistical methods in relatedness and pedigree analysis’
A report from the Center of Systems Biology in Reykjavik, Iceland
by Kjersti Rise, NTNU I hadn’t really given a research stay abroad much thought when I started my PhD, it seemed like fun, but too much extra work in order to make it happen, and there were so many other things I already had to do. Then suddenly one day well into my second…Continue reading A report from the Center of Systems Biology in Reykjavik, Iceland
Funding available for international exchange!
Once more, we encourage you as a NORBIS member to spend part of your PhD period (at least 3-6 months) at an institution abroad, to benefit from international expertise and to expand your international network. We have funding available for such an exchange, and we now invite you to apply for financial support for your stay. Read more…Continue reading Funding available for international exchange!
Registration now open for ‘Sequence comparison and database search’
NORBIS is happy to announce that registration now is open for our course ‘Sequence comparison and database search’ (NORBIS901), which will run in Bergen 29 January – 2 February. This course provides insight into methods for aligning biological sequences. Its goal is to present an overview of the basic concepts of sequence alignments and some…Continue reading Registration now open for ‘Sequence comparison and database search’