The Health Research Infrastructure (Health-RI) conference, on January 30th in the Jaarbeurs Utrecht was kind of a “home game” for us as The Hyve’s office is only a few blocks away. Even better: the event was sold out! It was pretty special to be[…]

On Thursday 17th of January was the 4th HealthRI meeting, marking already four years of bringing together a number of Dutch health data research projects and infrastructure (such as CTMM TraIT, BBMRI, ELIXIR-NL, DTL, NFU etc.) under one umbrella[…]

Janneke “At this year's NBIC Conference in Lunteren, I was very fortunate to attend a talk by Ilya Smulevich from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). This was a very inspiring session, where he introduced us to the very rich and heterogenous datasource[…]

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[…]

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[…]