Tools
Ismael Zamora granted with the 2010 Hansch Award
Ismael Zamora, member of the computer-assisted drug design laboratory of GRIB (IMIM/ UPF) has been granted with the 2010 Hansch Award given by the prestigious Cheminformatics and QSAR Society. This is the second time that this award is given to a member of our Programme because Jordi Mestres, head of Chemogenomics laboratory of GRIB was awarded with it in 2006.
14/9/2010
ICG10 Integrative Cancer Genomics Training Course
We are pleased to announce the NEW Bioinformatics training courseICG10 Integrative Cancer Genomicsorganized by Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (Oeiras, Portugal) with Nuria Lopez-Bigas and Gunes Gundem (Head and Predoctoral student respectively of Biomedical Genomics Laboratory of GRIB - UPF/ IMIM) as invited professors. The course will be held on November 8th-10th 2010. Application deadline until October 13th.
More information, including application details at
http://gtpb.igc.gulbenkian.pt/bicourses/ICG10
Second VPH NoE Study Group
A networking activity in parallel with the Second Barcelona School on Biomedical Informatics (BSBMI’10)
The second VPH NoE study group will be held in Barcelona in October 4th - 8th 2010. The event will be carried out in conjunction with the second Barcelona School of Biomedical Informatics (BSBMI’10). The event, hosted by the IMIM – Institut de Recerca Hospital del Mar (IMIM), the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), will take place in the outstanding premises of the PRBB, located next to the beachfront in Barcelona.
18/06/2010
Jornada sobre Financiación de empresas de reciente creación en el ámbito de la biomedicina.
La jornada tendrá lugar el próximo 8 de julio en el Auditorio del PRBB (Barcelona). Se presentará el Informe puesto en marcha hace unos meses por Farmaindustria para analizar el impacto de la crisis económica mundial en la financiación de las empresas españolas de reciente creación que desarrollan su actividad en el área de la biotecnología aplicada a la salud humana. También se presentará la visión que las compañías farmacéuticas y las bioempresas tienen sobre la cooperación entre ellas.
La inscripción debe hacer on line en www.medicamentos-innovadores.org. La asistencia es gratuita, pero las plazas limitadas por el aforo de la sala, por lo que se recomienda realizar cuanto antes la inscripción.
18/6/2010
The 7th Special Interest Group meeting on Alternative Splicing (AS-SIG) will take place on July 9-10, 2010 in Boston, MA (US). The program is now AVAILABLE.
The program for the AS-SIG2010 meeting is now available. Registration is still open through the ISMB website. This year we have a list of outstanding speakers in the field of "chromatin, non-coding RNAs and splicing". Meeting Location: John B. Hynes Memorial Convention Center, Boston, MA (US) Meeting Dates: 9-10 July 2010 Please visit our website for more information.
7/6/2010
GRIB wellcome Dr. Rafael Irizarry
Dr. Rafael Irizarry, professor in the Department of Biostatistics of the Bloomberg School of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, teaches this week at the Master of Bioinformatics as invited professor thanks to a mobility grant from the Ministry of Education. Dr. Irizarry's research focuses in the analysis of genomic data coming from microarrays and second generation sequencing instruments.
more info at http://www.upf.edu
26/5/2010
Commercial release of Pentacle, an advanced tool for 3D QSAR and Virtual screening developed at GRIB
Molecular Discovery Ltd., one of the world leader companies in chemoinformatics and services for the pharmaceutical industry has launched to the market the software Pentacle, developed at the Computer of Assisted Drug Design (CADD) laboratory by Ángel Durán and Manuel Pastor.
Pentacle is an advanced software tool for obtaining alignment-independent molecular descriptors, containing all the tools required for building 3D quantitative structure-activity relationships and carrying out virtual screening applications. More information can be found at the CADD laboratory and Molecular Discovery web pages.
7/5/2010
Be an atom for one afternoon!
Some researchers of GRIB are in the process of doing a scientific movie about molecular dynamics within the PRBB Interval sessions (The Visual Storytelling course) and we need your help. In this movie, we will perform a molecular simulation (that is, simulating the movement of atoms) using real life people instead of computers. YOU can become part of this project by playing one of the atoms in the simulation! If you are interested in participating, please fill out this small questionnaire, we will contact you as soon as possible.
For any question you can contact: ndrechsel@imim.es; ibuch@imim.es; Phone number +34 933 160 506
29/04/2010
Biotechnology Research For A Complex World, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, 2 June 2010
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the EC-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research , European and US scientists will discuss a vision for the future of biotechnology research, the bioeconomy and its applications for the benefit of society. The conference aims to challenging the scientific communities on both side of the Atlantic to expand their thinking beyond specific scientific disciplines and jointly identify the greatest societal challenge in the next 20 years for which scientific transatlantic collaboration could accelerated the way forward to find solutions.
5/5/2010
UPFARMA platform has participated in the 1st Annual Meeting of TECNIO "Technology for business" organized by ACC10
UPFARMA platform has participated in the 1st Annual Meeting of TECNIO "Technology for business" organized by ACC10, a key appointment to anticipate trends, get to know new business opportunities and discover how to grow in competitivity in an evolving market. The event took place the last 27th of April 2010 at the Word Trade Centre building and the results of first year´s activity of TECNIO was presented.
