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Second VPH NoE Study Group

2010-05-27 11:04:10

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.

Jornada sobre Financiación de empresas de reciente creación en el ámbito de la biomedicina.

2010-06-18 15:42:37

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.

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.

2010-06-18 15:57:02

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.

GRIB wellcome Dr. Rafael Irizarry

2010-06-07 12:25:31

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

Commercial release of Pentacle, an advanced tool for 3D QSAR and Virtual screening developed at GRIB

2010-05-26 13:47:12

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.