NORBIS is happy to offer the opportunity to attend a Nature Masterclass workshop on scientific writing, in Fredrikstad 21-22 June. The training is delivered by editors from selected relevant journals from the Nature Publishing Group, and aims to help institutions and laboratories support their researchers in writing research papers. This high-level writing course is a collaboration between…Continue reading Nature Masterclass; workshop on scientific writing, 21-22 June
New workshop: Network science meets omics data in Bergen 23-25 August
We are very happy to announce a workshop entitled ‘Network Biology/Integromics Bioinformatics – Applications Towards Medicine’, to take place in Bergen 23-25 August. During this workshop, world leading experts in the field will teach you how network science meets omics data, give you an introduction to graph theory, an overview of different types of biological…Continue reading New workshop: Network science meets omics data in Bergen 23-25 August
Registration now open for the NORBIS Summer school
We are happy to announce that registration now is open for this year’s NORBIS summer school, which is entitled ‘Communicating research by visualisation, illustration and storytelling‘, and takes place in Bergen, August 28-September 1. Please read more and register here, by June 8.
Nine international travel grants awarded!
The first NORBIS international travel grants have now been awarded! In this very first round of grant applications, the NORBIS board has decided to generously award a total of 450 000 NOK, to support the research exchange of nine NORBIS PhD students. Each student will receive funding corresponding to the newly established NORBIS international travel…Continue reading Nine international travel grants awarded!
Want to learn how to write reproducible workflows? Join our introduction to Snakemake!
We are now happy to announce a workshop that may make lives easier for some of you! Registration is now open for our next workshop, entitled ‘An introduction to Snakemake: Writing reproducible bioinformatics workflows‘, which will take place at NTNU in Trondheim, June 12-16 2017. Snakemake is a combination of the languages Python and Make. Python is famous…Continue reading Want to learn how to write reproducible workflows? Join our introduction to Snakemake!
NORBIS summer school August 28-September 1
Hold the dates August 28 – September 1 for this year’s summer school; ‘Communicating research by visualisation, illustration and storytelling’. Please look back shortly for more information and registration.
Program now available for ‘Bioinformatics for metagenomics and environmental sequencing’
Full program with practical details and a suggested reading list for our next course, ”Bioinformatics for metagenomics and environmental sequencing (Bio9905MERG1)”, is now available here.
New course on functional metagenomics at NMBU, Ås
This year, NORBIS will offer two courses on metagenomics analysis. ‘Bioinformatics for metagenomics and environmental sequencing‘ will run at UiO in March, and will primarily deal with amplicon-data and the corresponding data analysis. The new course, ‘Bioinformatics for functional metagenomics‘, will run at NMBU Ås in September, and will focus more on assembly, binning, annotation, transcriptomics and…Continue reading New course on functional metagenomics at NMBU, Ås
‘Modern methods for analysing survival and time-to-event data’ moved to 4-8 December 2017.
Our course on ‘Modern methods for analysing survival and time-to-event data‘ will run 4-8 December 2017, and not in May, as originally planned.
Time schedule now available for Prediction
A detailed schedule for next week’s Prediction (in molecular biology) course can now be viewed [ddownload id=”1690″ text=”here” style=”link”]!