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Researchers develop model for hollowing of blood vessels

Researchers Sonja Boas and Roeland Merks from the Life Sciences group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, have developed a new computational model that simulates the hollowing of blood …

Vidi grant for Alexander Schönhuth and Matthias Christandl

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Alexander Schönhuth and Matthias Christandl.

Inken Wohlers defends thesis on protein structure comparison

CWI simulates brain activity on video cards

Neuroinformaticists of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam managed to simulate complex brain activity on simple video cards. The simulated brain contains 50,000 neurons communicating with 35 million signals per second. …

CWI builds online application for protein comparison

Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed a new method to compare proteins. This enables biologists to discover the function of new proteins more efficiently.

Gunnar Klau Extraordinary Professor at VU University Amsterdam

As of 1 July 2012, Gunnar Klau is instated as Extraordinary Professor of Bioinformatics and Operations Research at VU University Amsterdam.

New computer techniques speed up drug research

A computer algorithm developed by bioinformaticists at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam speeds up simulations predicting the effect of drugs on the human body. This allows pharmaceutical researchers to discover …

Early genetic code very resistant to mutation

Researchers of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam show that the genetic code is remarkably resistant to DNA replication errors. This might explain the success of the common ancestor of all …