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?

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’

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’

New workshop on ‘Applied Structural Bioinformatics’

NORBIS is pleased to now offer a workshop on ‘Applied Structural Bioinformatics‘, which will take place in Bergen October 16-20. This workshop will provide a practical introduction to popular tools for biomolecular visualisation, analysis and simulations. Lectures will be given by both international and local speakers from the research fields of structural bioinformatics and computer-aided drug…Continue reading New workshop on ‘Applied Structural Bioinformatics’

Welcome to the 3rd annual meeting of NORBIS 8-10 November!

  You are all invited to join the third annual conference of NORBIS, which will take place November 8-10, at Sommarøy Arctic Hotel outside Tromsø.   The conference aims at bringing together students and researchers, fostering collaboration between groups. The participants will learn about each others’ research, discuss science, be inspired by keynotes from leading researchers,…Continue reading Welcome to the 3rd annual meeting of NORBIS 8-10 November!

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!