Submitted on 19 November 2013
On December 9 and 10, 2013 the 8th edition of the Benelux Bioinformatics Conference will be organized in Brussels by Tom Lenaerts and a number of colleagues from the VUB and ULB. The event will take place in Salle Drupeel on the ULB Solbosch Campus. Next to a number of high quality presentations provided by the participants, there will be plenary invited talkes by three exceptional researchers in the field; Prof. Anna Tramontano (Rome), Prof. Jim Haseloff (Cambridge) and Prof. Alfonso Valencia (Madrid).
Submitted on 15 November 2013
Researchers in Brussels, including Tom Lenaerts, Peter Tompa and Wim Vranken of the VUB, have developped an innovative method to predict a protein's strructural flexibility directly from its amino acid sequence. This publication is a first result produced by the new Interuniversity Institute for Bioinformatics IB2 (or IBsquare). The method allows for the analysis at genomic scale of the dynamic patterns of proteins without knowing their actual structure. This result provides a major breakthrough as dynamics are essential for understanding the function of proteins.
