News & Events

We are working hard to increase the FAIRness of our training material. Have a look at the overview using the link below

A small and diverse group of enthusiastic image data analysts, an imaging data steward, and a bioinformatics trainer supported by technical HPC experts joined forces to assessing the expected variability in reproducible data analysis for some biological imaging data sets.   

Some impressions of the days can be found on https://twitter.com/hashtag/reprohack23

In life science research, access to cutting-edge technology is key to accelerating scientific discoveries. Since these technologies are getting increasingly complex, training and experience are vital to develop the necessary skills in scientists. From 2023 onwards, this expanding need will be met by the VIB Technology Training unit. The unit joins forces with VIB Training and all units of VIB Technologies. Its goal is to provide hands-on experience with a variety of tools and methods covering the expertise of VIB Technologies.

Please visit the web site Order scientific software on Connect for your sponsored scientific software packages like GraphPad Prism, CLC Main Workbench, SnapGene, MATLAB, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis etc. All (scientific) software packages are also available on the VIB Apps Catalog.

Since the release of AlphaFold2, Jasper Zuallaert (Lennart Martens lab) and Alexander Botzki (VIB Bioinformatics Core) have been working towards the provisioning on AlphaFold to the larger public at VIB and beyond. At this moment, AlphaFold2 is available at the HPC in Ghent, Leuven and in the near future Brussels too. As we know, there are several VIB researchers who like to use AlphaFold and other structure prediction tools.

Therefore, we would like to schedule an online Interest Group meeting with all persons interested to talk about the current status and future perspectives. This online meeting is scheduled on 25 November 2021 at 10h. If you wish to participate, please mail bits@vib.be.
 

We'd like to warmly invite you to complete the international Research Software Engineers survey and help us understand the RSE community More info and survey in 4 languages.

The VIB Bioinformatics Core organises regular online bioinformatics seminars with speakers from VIB, UGent and other institutes/organisations. We want to connect Ghent based bioinformaticians and researchers with interest in computational biology.

These seminar sessions will facilitate the connections between biology and bioinformatics, allowing participants from various fields in science to ask questions, discuss and perhaps collaborate. The topics are not limited, we are open for any suggestion: e.g. NGS sequencing, multi-omics data analysis, research data management, comparative genomics, etc.

Episode 2: 24 February 2021.
Speakers for that day: Maarten Dhaenens (UGent), Robbin Bouwmeester (Compomics, VIB-UGent) and Charlotte Van Petegem (UGent)

Together with ELIXIR Belgium, the VIB Bioinformatics Core has launched the Belgian Research Software Engineers Association. More information is available on https://www.be-rse.org. Johan Philips from KU Leuven represents it as a committee member at SORSE20 (SORSE20 github). If you are involved in building software for research in any form you are very welcome to join us.

To bring the community together we have TWO upcoming events! An online technical seminar series (https://www.be-rse.org/seminars/) beginning on 14 October 2020 featuring short talks by leading software engineers approximately once a month. AND an online conference for Research Software Developers (http://www.be-rse.org/rsdd2020).

Please feel welcome to submit a talk or workshop proposal. We hope to see you online soon!