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GMD: Measuring the distance between histograms with applications on high-throughput sequencing reads
2012-02-20
A new R package that can assess difference in distributions is now public
Predicting gene expression from epigenetics data
2011-11-16
Yun Chen and coworkers have showed the feasibility of predicting recruitment, elongation of stalling of RNA polymerase II using epigenetic data, published in BMC genomics.
Trends in Genetics review
2011-09-22
In the current issue of Trends in Genetics, Eivind Valen and Albin Sandelin reviews the different signals that are important for transcription initiation.
New postdoc opening in the Sandelin group
2011-09-12
The Sandelin group is recruiting 1-2 postdocs in applied computational biology.
New paper in PLoS ONE
2011-08-25
Xiaobei Zhao and colleagues in the Sandelin group have for the first time established how many types of promoter there are in terms of their TSS distribution. The report was published in the open access journal PLoS ONE
New paper in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
2011-08-03
The Sandelin group and collegues have studied the origin of a class of RNA molecules in human, collectively called small RNAs. These small RNAs occur at the same places as human genes in our DNA, and their function and origin has until now been a mystery.
New paper in Nucleic Acids Research
2011-05-23
Eivind Valen, Albin Sandelin and collaborators from Aarhus University published a characterization of non-coding transcripts that are found upstream of genes.
Paper on miRNA targetting
2011-04-24
Jiayu Wen, Brian Parker, Anders Jacobsen, and Anders Krogh published a study on the determinats of miRNA targetting in animals in the RNA journal.
New paper: Transcription factor binding sites turnover in fat cells
2011-03-17
Mette Jörgensen, Yun Chen and Albins Sandelin published a study in BMC Genomics on how many in-vivo transcription factor binding sites that are "conserved" between human and mouse in developing fat cells.
Article on potentials of mean force
2010-11-22
After about 20 year of controversy, "potentials of mean force" as used in protein structure prediction are now finally fully understood. The theoretical insights also point to some exciting new directions in protein structure prediction. The article was published in PLoS ONE (open access).
New paper: Gene expression in epilepsies
2010-10-19
Together with neuroscientists from Italy, France and Germany, Troels Marstrand, Eivind Valen and Albin Sandelin have explored gee expression and regulation in epilepsies in mouse hippocampus.
New article in Genetics
2010-10-08
Anders Albrechtsen, Ida Moltke and Rasmus Nielsen have published a paper in Genetics entitled "Natural Selection and the Distribution of Identity-by-Descent in the Human Genome".
Article on Hawkes process models published in BMC Bioinformatics
2010-09-10
Lisbeth Carstensen and colleges published a paper describing how Hawkes models can be used for exploring relations between regulatory elements on genomes.
New article in BMC Bioinformatics
2010-08-18
The structure group publishes "Calculation of accurate small angle X-ray scattering curves from coarse-grained protein models" in BMC Bioinformatics.
New article in Leukemia
2010-06-09
Troels Marstrand and colleagues published a paper showing a computational framework to find candidate drugs leukemia
New article in BMC Genomics
2010-06-09
We published a paper in BMC Genomics describing gene expression changes in spinal cord injury, a collaboration between labs at Copenhagen University and Karolinska Institute
Micro-RNA paper published in Genome Research
2010-06-09
Anders Jakobsen and the Krogh group published the paper "Signatures of RNA binding proteins globally coupled to effective microRNA target sites" in Genome Research.
New article in BMC Bioinformatics
2010-06-07
The structure group publishes an article on side chain modelling in BMC Bioinformatics.
Grant from The Danish Cancer Society
2010-05-21
We secured a grant of 1,200,000 DKK from the Danish Cancer Society for studying the promoter-and splice site usage of acute myloid leukemia cells.
Postdoc openings!
2010-05-21
We have 3 open postdoc positions in the Krogh and Sandelin groups. Deadline is 20 July 2010. Please spread to potential candidates!
Large grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation
2010-04-29
The Novo Nordisk Foundation has given the Bioinformatics Center a grant
of 15 million DKK over 5 years!
New article in Toxicological Sciences
2010-04-13
Eivind Valen and collegues have published an article in Toxicological Sciences on the AhR receptor and its binding sites
New article in BMC Bioinformatics
2010-03-12
BMC Bioinformatics published "Mocapy++ - A toolkit for inference and learning in dynamic Bayesian networks"
Sequencing of an Ancient Human Genome
2010-02-13
Researchers at the Bioinformatics Centre did the basic bioinformatics in the ancient genome project.
Paper in PLoS Computational Biology
2009-11-26
Eivind Valen, Albin Sandelin,Ole Winther and Anders Krogh published a paper in PLoS Computational Biology - Pattern Discovery is improved by a Discriminatory Approach
, describing how pattern discovery in promoters can be improved by
using a large negative set of actual promoters as background instead of
a statistical model.
New JASPAR release
2009-11-26
We have presented a new release of the open-access DNA binding pattern database: JASPAR . This release is almost doubling the database size. The work is summarized in the database issue of Nucleic Acids Research.
2 PhD positions in protein structure prediction
2009-08-31
Two PhD positions are available in the structural bioinformatics group. The positions are part of a project that aims at developing novel methods to determine the structure of protein ensembles.
Paper in Toxicological Sciences
2009-07-23
Eivind Valen , Albin Sandelin and collaborators published a paper in Toxicological Sciences on the interaction between aryl hydrocarbon receptor and estrogen receptor alpha at human promoters.
Paper in PLoS Computational Biology
2009-06-19
Jes Frellsen, Ida Moltke and Martin Thiim got their paper A probabilistic model of RNA conformational space, published in the Open Access journal PLoS computational biology.
Seminar: Manfred Sippl on protein folding
2009-05-07
Sippl is professor of Bioinformatics at the Center of Applied Molecular Engineering (CAME) at University of Salzburg in Austria. He will hold a presentation on protein fold space and structure prediction.
Paper in Nature genetics
2009-05-03
Several people from the Bioinformatics centre participated in a paper published in Nature genetics this month. The paper is named "The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line".
Seminar on transcription initiation
2009-03-23
Albin Sandelin from the promoter group at the Bioinformatics centre will be holding a talk titled "A code for transcription initiation in mammalian genomes". The talk is part of a larger seminar in the Cell and Molecular Biology seminar series hosted by the Department of Biology
Paper in Bioinformatics
2009-03-23
Thomas Hamelryck at the structure group is one of the co-authors of a recently published paper on the Biopython package, a set of freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology. Hamelryck has been part of Biopython development for many years, working on the classes that deal with macromolecular crystal structure.
Seminar by Marc Friedlander Friday 27th February
2009-02-24
Seminar 1 in the series "What is Bioinformatics?":Discovery and profiling of small RNAs from deep sequencing data by Marc Fridländer. Room 1-2-03 in the Biocenter , Friday Feb. 27th at 14:0.
Refreshments afterwards. Everyone is welcome!
New paper published: Hippocampus promoter detection by DeepCAGE (Genome Research)
2009-01-12
Together with scientists from Japan, Australia and Italy, Eivind Valen, Albin Sandelin and the promoter group published a paper in Genome Research describing the landscape of core promoters in mouse hippocampus.
New paper published: Drosha and DGCR8 regulate each other posttranscriptionally (Cell)
2009-01-12
Jakob Pedersen and collegues have published a paper in Cell showing that the microRNA maturation proteins Drosha and DGCR8 regulate each other posttranscriptionally.
Apply for admission to the Master's program in Bioinformatics
2009-01-08
Deadline to apply for admission to the Master's program in Bioinformatics is May 1st for EU students and March 15th for other students. There is no tuition fees for students from the EU.
Facebook group for the Bioinformatics Centre
2009-01-08
We have made a group in Facebook. We hope that all former students and staff will join it. Please visit the group if you want to find people affiliated with Binf.
