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Holovir released, HoloVir: a workflow for metaviromics in invertebrate holobionts

14.07.16

News

HoloVir is a robust and flexible data analysis pipeline that provides an optimized and validated workflow for taxonomic and functional characterization of viral metagenomes derived from invertebrate holobionts. It has been ...
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Public release of CONSPRED genome annotation pipeline

14.07.16

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CONSPRED is a prokaryotic genome annotation framework that performs various intrinsic gene predictions, homology searches, predictions of non-coding genes, and complex features and integrates all evidence into a consensus annotation.

CONSPRED 1.28 has now been publicly released along with an applications ...
Dr. rer. nat. Raheleh Sheibani

13.07.16

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Raheleh has successfully defended her PhD thesis "ECF sigma factors: how endophytes sense the plants" this morning. The thesis was reviewed by Prof. Eva Stukenbrock, Kiel, and by Dr. Stefanie Wienkoop, University of Vienna. Congratulations, Raheleh!
CUBE observes the mercury transit

09.05.16

Event

During the afternoon of May 9th the planet mercury has (slightly) obstructed the sun. Mercury became visible in front of the sun at 13:12 and did not leave the sun until sunset. CUBE has observed the cosmic spectacle on the ...
CAMI project featured in Nature Methods

05.05.16

Publication

COMPETITIVE BUT SENSITIVE: TOOL BENCHMARKING IN METAGENOMICS

The Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation (CAMI) competition has been featured in a recent Nature Methods technology article. CAMI was launched by Alice McHardy from the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Alexander Sczyrba at ...
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Mag. Andreas Bachmayr

18.04.16

Event

Andreas graduated in the master course "Genetics and developmental biology" by successfully defending his master thesis today. In his master project entitled "Computational analysis of plastid DNA insertions into nuclear and mitochondrial genomes in non-photosynthetic parasitic plants from next generation sequencing data" ...
Faculty of 1000 recommend our recent Science paper

03.02.16

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F1000 member Sebastian Suerbaum recommended our recent article "The 5300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman" (Science 2016) as being of special significance in its field.
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From molecules and cells to big data and health - 16th Spring School in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

26.01.16

Event

We are glad to invite you and your collaborators to the 16th Spring School in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology. The course will be held at Bertinoro, Italy, from 12th through 16th of March. The course addresses Ph.D. students and post-docs ...
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New paper in Science: The 5,300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman

07.01.16

Publication

Five thousand years ago in the European Alps, a man was shot by an arrow, then clubbed to death. His body was subsequently mummified by ice until glacier retreat exhumed him in 1991. Subsequently, this ancient corpse has provided a ...
Master thesis projects in bioinformatics at the University of Tromso

05.01.16

News

New master thesis projects are available in Prof. Ines Heiland's group at the University Tromso, the Arctic University of Norway. The projects cover chronobiology, disease characterization, parasite-host interactions of parasitic plants, and microbial communities of arctic soils.

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