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2012.09.08 | Awards
PhD student Zsuzsanna Sükösd won the prize for best oral presentation at the Student Council Symposium of the 11th European Conference on Computational Biology, held in Basel, Switzerland, September 8-12, 2012. The title of her talk was: "PPfold 3.0: Fast RNA secondary structure prediction using phylogeny and auxiliary data".
2012.09.01 | Research news
The age of the father at the time the child is conceived is actually the most crucial factor for the number of mutations in the child’s DNA, while the age of the mother is of virtually no importance in this context.This is the result of the most comprehensive analysis to date of the genome in nuclear families. Seventy-eight Icelandic children and…
2012.06.20 | Research news
The bonobo is our closest relative along with chimpanzees. As part of an international collaboration, researchers from the Bioinformatics Research Centre have participated in the sequencing of the complete bonobo genome. This work reveals that that for over 3% percent of the our genome we are more closely related to either the bonobo or the…
