Bioinformatics in Life Science
Bioinformatics in Life Science constitutes the hub of bioinformatics and computational biology. Our competences span wide and include many aspects of genomics, regardless of species and populations, from biodiversity to precision medicine and protein structure.
BiLS event gallery
BiLS seminar audience.
Roger Simm presenting at the seminar.
Sveinung Gundersen presenting at the seminar.
Trine Ballestad Rounge presenting at the seminar.
BiLS seminar audience.
Vipin Kumar presenting at the seminar.
Andreas Kleppe presenting at the seminar.
Matt Salganik (Princeton University) presenting at the seminar.
BiLS seminar audience.
BiLS seminar audience.
BiLS leadership members. From left to right: Eivind Valen, Anthony Mathelier, Jonas Paulsen, Lex Nederbragt, Rein Aasland, Trine Ballestad Rounge, and Eivind Hovig (missing).
Events
December 7th-11th 2026 will see the fifth edition of the Oslo Bioinformatics Workshop Week at the University of Oslo, Norway. This event is organised by the Trainee Committee of BiLS (Bioinformatics in Life Science) at UiO. These workshops are open to the scientific community in Oslo and the surrounding area.
BiLS e-mail lists:
Seminars and meetings: bils-seminars@mn.uio.no
To subscribe to announcements, navigate to https://sympa.uio.no/mn.uio.no/info/bils-seminars, log in using Feide with your UiO username and password, search for the list, and click "Subscribe" in the left-hand menu. If this doesn’t work, please just send a request to the BiLS leadership group mail below:
BiLS Leadership Group: bils-core@mn.uio.no
BiLS Trainee Committee: oslo-bioinfo-workshops@ifi.uio.no
Software developed at BiLS
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CARMA
Software for extraction of DNA copy number motifs in cancer
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Chimeraviz
Chimeraviz manages data from fusion gene finders and provides useful visualization tools.
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CompAIRR
Comparison of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoires
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Genomic HyperBrowser
Statistical methodology and computing power to handle a variety of biological inquires on genomic datasets
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HoCoRT
Host contamination removal tool
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immuneML
immuneML: an ecosystem for machine learning analysis of adaptive immune receptor repertoires
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KAGE
Kmer-based Alignment-free Graph Genotyper
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MoDLE
MoDLE: High-performance stochastic modeling of DNA loop extrusion interactions
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ScaR
ScaR — a tool for sensitive detection of known fusion transcripts: establishing prevalence of fusions in testicular germ cell tumors
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Swarm
Highly-scalable and high-resolution amplicon clustering
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VSEARCH
A versatile open source tool for metagenomics