Centre for Bioinformatics

Our research

We constitute the hub of bioinformatics and computational biology. Our competence spans from precision medicine through all aspects of genomics, regardless of species and populations, through to protein structure.

Scientia Fellows

Two postdoctoral fellowship are available at the Centre for Bioinformatics within the research topics of Bioinformatics: Precision medicine and 3D genome modeling. Find out more and apply now!

Events

Tuesday seminars at the centre:

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Recommended seminars

Sven Furberg Seminars in Bioinformatics and Statistical Genomics:

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News

Scientia fellows - two postdoctoral fellowships open! Jan. 30, 2020 12:06 AM
Paper on precision medicine published in Nature May 20, 2019 9:12 AM

A position paper on precision medicine in the Nordics, where we have contributed, has been published in Nature, the renowned international journal of science.

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Software

Selected software being developed at the centre:

Genomic HyperBrowser

Statistical methodology and computing power to handle a variety of biological inquires on genomic datasets
Swarm

A robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies
VSEARCH

A versatile open source tool for metagenomics

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Publications

Three latest publications from the centre:

Rødevand L, Bahrami S, Frei O, Lin A, Gani O, Shadrin A, Smeland OB, Connell KSO, Elvsåshagen T, Winterton A, Quintana DS, Hindley GFL, Werner MCF, Djurovic S, Dale AM, Lagerberg TV, Steen NE, Andreassen OA (2021)
Polygenic overlap and shared genetic loci between loneliness, severe mental disorders, and cardiovascular disease risk factors suggest shared molecular mechanisms
Transl Psychiatry, 11 (1), 3
DOI 10.1038/s41398-020-01142-4, PubMed 33414458

Dominguez-Valentin M, Crosbie EJ, Engel C, Aretz S, Macrae F, Winship I, Capella G, Thomas H, Nakken S, Hovig E, Nielsen M, Sijmons RH, Bertario L, Bonanni B, Tibiletti MG, Cavestro GM, Mints M, Gluck N, Katz L, Heinimann K, Vaccaro CA, Green K, Lalloo F, Hill J, Schmiegel W et al. (2020)
Risk-reducing hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in female heterozygotes of pathogenic mismatch repair variants: a Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database report
Genet Med
DOI 10.1038/s41436-020-01029-1, PubMed 33257847

Zhao S, Agafonov O, Azab A, Stokowy T, Hovig E (2020)
Accuracy and efficiency of germline variant calling pipelines for human genome data
Sci Rep, 10 (1), 20222
DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-77218-4, PubMed 33214604

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Collaborations

ELIXIR Norway

ELIXIR Norway is the Norwegian national node of ELIXIR, the pan-European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine, environment, the bioindustries and society. This organization is a virtual organization where the Center of Bioinformatics hosts the regional Oslo node. It participates to the national help-desk user support, and in that activity also collaborates and coordinates closely with the Helse Sør-Øst-funded Bioinformatics Core facility.