Bioinformatics

News

An overview of plant sesquiterpene synthases

Janani published an analysis of all experimentally characterized plant sesquiterpene synthases. In this, she showed that product specificity evolves very dynamically. The work was published in Phytochemistry.

Ouroboros: a new algorithm to predict protein-protein interactions

Miguel published the first paper of his PhD, introducing a new method to predict protein-protein interactions. The new tool, Ouroboros, along with its description, was published in Bioinformatics.

New method to correct palindromes in long reads

Sven Warris developed a new method to correct palindromes in long read DNA sequence data. The approach was published in BMC Genomics.

New preprint on biosynthetic gene cluster classification

Former postdoc Jorge Navarro Muñoz published a preprint, co-authored by Satria and several students, on BiG-SCAPE, a new method to construct sequence similarity networks of biosynthetic gene clusters and group them into families.

New minor Bioinformatics

From the academic year 2016-2017, the Bioinformatics group is coordinating a new minor 'Bioinformatics', for BSc students throughout Wageningen University, as well as from other universities.

Events

New PhD student

In January 2019 Margi Hartanto started his PhD project in our group. He will work with Harm Nijveen on finding genes for traits using (e)QTL data. Welcome, Margi!

Succesful thesis defences

Several BSc/MSc students recently finished their theses. Congratulations to Sam, Selena and Rutger!