The first NORBIS summer school, “An introduction to molecular biology, bioinformatics and biostatistics” will take place in Bergen, 13th –  17th June 2016! Read more and register by 29th April here – and help us spread the word outside NORBIS’ boundaries!

New exciting post in our writing blog! Evolution and disease; Why do genetic diseases survive evolution, despite often providing major drawbacks for the carrier? PS. Do you want to practise your writing and communication skills in an informal setting? Join our writing group! We are currently active only in Bergen, but you may still participate…Continue reading New blog post: Evolution and disease

Save the dates 6th-10th June 2016, if you want to learn about “Genetic epidemiology and genome-wide association analyses”. Read more about the course here, and come back in March to register.

High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics (course code INF9380) will take place at the University of Oslo from 18th-29th April 2016. Importantly, students from other institutions than the University of Oslo will have to apply for status as and being accepted as, a visiting PhD student, prior to registration to the course. The deadline for submitting this application is…Continue reading Important information regarding NORBIS course on High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics

The NORBIS course Bioinformatics methods for next generation sequencing analysis will be held by Morten Beck Rye, and takes place at NTNU in Trondheim 19th – 23rd September 2016. The course will introduce bioinformatic approaches, tools and pipelines for computational analyses of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. Focus will be on analysis methods for coding and…Continue reading New NORBIS course!

NORBIS hereby invites you to propose and organise a course that will be supported by NORBIS. We aim to organise in-depth method-oriented courses within the fields of bioinformatics, biostatistics and systems biology. The courses organised within NORBIS may be of three different types: Core courses: these courses cover methodology within one discipline at in-depth level (e.g. within bioinformatics, biostatistics, machine learning…Continue reading Call for NORBIS course proposals now OPEN

BREW – Bioinformatics Research and Education Workshop – is a series of events organised in collaboration between multiple European PhD programs in bioinformatics. It is open for participation for NORBIS PhD students and is particularly well suited for students in their first or second year – since it gives training in writing of manuscripts, reviewing…Continue reading Join BREW in Helsinki, May 19-20 2016!

NORBIS is very excited to present a mini seminar on multiple sequence alignment here in Bergen on Friday November 20th. The lectures will be given by Professors Des Higgins and Cedric Notredame, two of the most prominent scientists in this field. Both Cedric Notredame and Des Higgins are teaching at the NORBIS course ‘An introduction…Continue reading Multiple sequence alignment seminar in Bergen

The first NORBIS course, An introduction to sequence comparison and database search, is soon about to take place, from 16th – 20th November, in Bergen. We still have some seats free, please sign up here by Monday 9th November: https://goo.gl/XN6zhl.   Why should you follow this course? First of all, sequence comparison is a fundamental aspect in bioinformatics, and…Continue reading First NORBIS course coming up

Do you have a great idea and wonder how to commercialise it? Bergen Technology Transfer Office (http://bergento.no) has the competence, experience and network necessary to bring your idea to the next level. NORBIS is pleased to announce that BTO will pay us a visit at CBU in Bergen, to give a lunch seminar about commercialisation.…Continue reading Commercialisation seminar by BTO in Bergen 4th November 2015