Bioinformaticians meet at UCC for the VIBE Bioinformatics Conference
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Bioinformaticians meet at UCC for the VIBE Bioinformatics Conference
20.09.2010
Some one hundred bioinformaticians, computer scientists and experimental biologists met in UCC recently for the VIBE (Virtual Institute of Bioinformatics (Éire)) Conference to present the results of their latest research in the area of "bioinformatics", a rapidly developing field that uses computer technologies to address a variety of problems in contemporary Biology.
The meeting opened with a stimulating talk by Dr James McInerney (NUIM), who described his recent work on illucidation of the origin of the eukaryotes, currently in press in the journal PNAS. Other papers covered a wide range of topics, from the latest developments in the popular multiple alignment software Clustal (Dr Fabian Sievers, UCD) to the evolutionary history of cholera strains (Dr Angela McCann, UCC). VIBE,) was founded in 2000. Members organize bi-annual meetings with the purpose of consolidating bioinformatics research efforts in Ireland, promoting collaborations, and providing a forum for emerging bioinformaticians (especially PhD students and postdoctoral fellows) to discuss their research (http://www.bioinf.org/). The latest meeting was organised by three UCC bioinformaticians, Drs Marcus Claesson (Microbiology), Pasha Baranov (Biochemistry) and Avril Coghlan (Microbiology), and was attended by researchers from around Ireland, including NUIG, NUIM, DCU, TCD, UCC, Teagasc and UCD.

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