Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre

The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre or NBIC

History

In 2003 NBIC was launched

Funding

The Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre was funded by the

The support department of NBIC, BioAssist, consists of task forces that bring together experts in the different fields of Bioinformatics. Together, these people identify common problems in their field that they set out to solve in a collaborative way. BioAssist also has a group, BioInformatics Research Support (BRS),[11]^[12] that helps biological and medical professionals with short bioinformatics projects.

Education

The education part of NBIC, BioWise, organizes courses and trainings at different levels. They provide awareness training at schools,

So far, NBIC has achieved its goal of bringing together the different bioinformatics research groups in the Netherlands. It is now also partnering up with Dutch universities of Applied Sciences (UAS) in the LOBIN network. in July 2011, four UASes have joined.^[14]

Bioinformatics software

A wide variety of

First steps have been made to include commercial entities, among others, via the Bioinformatics Industrial Users Platform (BIUP). The BIUP, though still in its start-up phase in mid-2011, has already attracted partners such as DSM.

Community Building

A large part of NBIC's efforts focus on developing new or strengthening existing bio-informatics communities. For example, NBIC hosted the 2011 Galaxy Community Conference.^[18] The Netherlands Bioinformatics for Proteomics Platform (for short NBPP) is a joint initiative of the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC) and the Netherlands Proteomics Centre (NPC).

The inaugural meeting of the Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET) was held at NBIC in November 2012.^[19]

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