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Special VanBUG Seminar, Dr. Temple Smith, May 5, 1PM‏

Dear all, VanBUG is hosting a special seminar for Prof. Em. Temple Smith. Dr. Smith developed the Smith-Waterman algorithm with Michael Waterman in 1981. This algorithm is the basis of sequence comparison, allowing us to identify similar DNA or protein sequences. He will be talking about the molecular evolution of a number of protein families, […]

Call for Papers: CIBB 2015 special session on ‘New knowledge from old data: power of data analysis and integration methods’‏

Call for Papers: CIBB 2015 special session on ‘New knowledge from old data: power of data analysis and integration methods’September 10-12, 2015Naples, Italyhttp://bioinfo.na.iac.cnr.it/cibb2015/ AIMS AND SCOPE: Mammalian systems constitute over 200 cell types, each specialized to perform a distinct function, and yet all cell types share the same DNA sequence. Epigenetic marks on DNA and histone tails […]

BC Food Protection Association – Spring Speaker’s Evening on May 6, 2015

The VanBUG team occasionally forwards events of interest to the localbioinformatics community. The upcoming event is posted on theBioinformatics Event Calendar at:http://www.vanbug.org/calendar/——————————————————————————————————— Dear all, Below is an event with a few talks applying genomics and bioinformatics to food safety issues.  They may be of interest to some.  Thanks. For more information, please contact Simon Cowell […]