What is the major bottleneck in your bioinformatics research when it comes to data and software? I asked this a number of bioinformatics researchers from pharma and food industry at the ISMB conference. It's a very general question, but it never[…]

Battling standardization in metabolomics BETHESDA, MD – Imagine a snow-covered Washington DC, just before Christmas. That was the scene where metabolomics researchers from around the world headed on December 15, 2010. They gathered at the National[…]

Today I want to check out LabKey, an open source software suite which claims to be ‘the best way to manage your biomedical research data’. Its website looks promising, and so does their list of participants and funding parties. When it comes to open[…]

For about a year now, I am technical project manager of the Nutrional Phenotype Database (dbNP)project, which was initiated by The European Nutrigenomics Organisation (NuGO). Nutrigenomics is what I would call ‘applied bioinformatics’. It is[…]

We are happy to announce that The Hyve has become partner in yet another IMI project: ND4BB Translocation (http://www.translocation.eu/). The New Drugs 4 Bad Bugs (ND4BB) initiative is a series of programmes designed to address some of the[…]