Computational Sciences

BGI and VIB's genomics meeting to take place on Feb. 15

9 Feb 2012

Both organizations are already collaborating on several projects, including the mapping of the genomes of more than 1,000 species of gut bacteria, compiled from 577 billion base pairs of sequence data. The leading scientific journal Science selected this work as one of the scientific breakthroughs of 2011. Large-scale genome sequencing is becoming ever more important in life sciences, healthcare ...

VIB and BGI organize joint genomics meeting, Feb. 15, 2012, Belgium

8 Feb 2012

( VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) ) BGI, the world's premier genomics sequencing company and VIB, a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, announce a joint genomics meeting, taking place on Feb. 15, 2012. The meeting will feature several talks on BGI's sequencing and computing infrastructure as well as VIB research in human, animal and microbial genomics and ...

Appistry Launches Scientific & Technology Advisory Board

7 Feb 2012

Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced the formation of a Scientific and Technology Advisory Board to support the company’s development and commercialization of next-generation technologies for advanced data management.