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Front cover Human Mutation

21 August 2019

The MetaDome web server build to interpret genetic variants based on genetic tolerance and homologous protein domains is featured on the Cover of Human Mutation. MetaDome was developed by Laurens van de Wiel, Coos Baakman, Daan Gilissen, Joris Veltman, Gert Vriend and Christian Gilissen,

Successful Summer School by CMBI, TML and Human Genetics

8 July 2019

CMBI, TML and Human Genetics organized a successful Summer School on 'Integrative X-omics Analyses Empowering Personalized Healthcare'.

Final scientific pitch competition Radboud Talks

14 March 2019

The finalists of the scientific pitch competition Radboud Talks have been selected. On Monday evening 25 March, eight scientists will compete in LUX for the award.

Valentine’s day spectacle at the Radboud Research Rounds

21 February 2019

This year’s Valentine’s day in the Radboudumc was focused on the RRR of the Tumors of the Digestive Tract. In the biannual Paper Award session the big prize went to Daniel Garza from the Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, for his paper on “the environmental metabolome”.

TDT paper award for Daniel Garza

19 February 2019

The Nature Microbiology paper by the CMBI researchers Daniel Garza, Martijn Huynen, and Bas Dutilh won the first place in the paper award session of the Tumors of the digestive tract research theme.

Nature Methods paper on GPCR structure determination

5 February 2019

The most recent addition to the GPCR database is a web tool to make the design of crystal constructs easier. CMBI Master's student Janne Bibbe was part of this project, and is now co-author of the paper "An online resource for GPCR structure determination and analysis" in Nature Methods.

COPAL reveals remodeling of mitochondrial protein complexes in Barth syndrome

21 January 2019

Martijn Huijnen, theme Mitochondrial diseases, and colleagues developed COmplexome Profiling ALignment (COPAL) to systematically asses the effect of Barth syndome on mitochondrial protein complexes. They published their findings in Bioinformatics.

Five RIMLS researchers in top 1 percent by citations

13 December 2018

Bas Dutilh, Leo Joosten, Jos van der Meer, Mihai Netea and Henk Stunnenberg made it to this year’s list of highly cited researchers. Researchers in this list are selected for their exceptional research performance and are regarded to have had a major impact on fellow scientists.

Minister pleads for a better use of big data in healthcare

6 December 2018

The minister for medical care and sport, Bruno Bruins, sent his recommendation regarding the use of big data in healthcare to the House of Representatives. In order to securely share data, the Personal Health Train project was established. Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen is one of the project leaders.

BBMRI-Omics wins Dutch Data Prize 2018

29 November 2018

Stan Gielen (president NWO) handed out the Dutch Data Prize (Nederlandse Data Prijs) to the BBMRI-Omics data collection.

ZonMw grant to promote large scale (re)use of DNA data

22 November 2018

Collaborative effort towards enhanced reusability of DNA data facilitates future personalized medicine approaches.

The European Joint co-fund Programme for Rare Diseases (EJP-RD) approved

9 October 2018

Radboudumc participates in the European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP-RD), which was recently approved by the European Commission.

Netherlands X-omics Initiative: Consortium kick off meeting

20 September 2018

The Netherlands X-omics Initiative had their consortium kick-off meeting. Consortium members from the Dutch partners involved gathered to get to know each other and to determine the next steps to start up the project.

RTC Bioinformatics Network Event From -omics data to biological knowledge

7 September 2018

Last Tuesday, the 8th floor of the RILMS building provided the stage for the Radboud Technology Center for Bioinformatics  event  titled “From -omics data to biological knowledge”.

Predicting metabolites based on bacterial genes

19 March 2018

What do the bacteria eat, that live on your skin? Scientists at Radboudumc and Utrecht University have developed a novel computer model to answer this question, revealing that a lot of the food for skin bacteria is derived from beauty and skin care products.

Peter-Bram ‘t Hoen appointed as professor of Bioinformatics and head CMBI

23 February 2018

Welcome Peter-Bram, as new head of the Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI).

CMBI researchers develop building blocks and recipes for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery

19 February 2018

Following the development of a virtual machine (JCIM), the 3D-e-Chem team now published a series of building blocks and recipes that can support complex computer-aided drug discovery efforts.

Publication in Human Mutation Using homologous relationships of protein domains in the human genome to interpret genetic variation

4 September 2017

This publication is part of the PhD project of Laurens van de Wiel and shows how homologous protein domain relations may be used to interpret normal and pathogenic variation at a much finer scale than previously possible.