GRASShopPER (GPU overlap GRaph ASSembler using Paired End Reads) is the novel assembly method that follows the approach of overlap–layout–consensus (OLC). The whole project was created in group: A. Swiercz, W. Frohmberg, M. Kierzynka, P. Wojciechowski, P. Zurkowski, J. Badura, A. Laskowski, M. Kasprzak, J. Blazewicz.More information

Polish Press Agency writes about our achievements in the field of RNA structural bioinformatics:http://naukawpolsce.pap.pl/

International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering 2018 will take place 25-27th of April in Granada (Spain). Organizers encourage to submit papers related to that topics: 1. Computational proteomics. 2. Next generation sequencing and sequence analysis. 3. High performance in Bioinformatics. 4. Biomedicine. 5. Biomedical Engineering 6. Computational systems for modeling biological processes. 7. Healthcare and diseases. 8. E-Health

For many years, Division IV of Technical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences has followed a tradition to recognize the outstanding achievements of young scientist with several Awards related to various fields of technology. This year, one of the six Awards has been given to prof. Marta Szachniuk for computational methods to recognize and model RNA 3D structures.

EURO WG 2018 Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine which is co-organized by our team will be held in Instanbul, Turkey on 4th – 8th August 2018. More information you can find on the conference website http://cbbm.ku.edu.tr.

Melania Nowicka won the Polish Bioinformatics Society Award for the best master thesis in bioinformatics defended in 2016. Title of his thesis is "Optymalizacja użycia par kodonów w projektowaniu syntetycznych otwartych ramek odczytu". Her supervisor was dr. Marcin Radom. Moreover, another student, Piotr Żurkowski received a distinction for his thesis "DNA de novo assembly algorithm with repetition sensitive graph traversal". His supervisor was dr. Aleksandra Świercz.

The symposium was organised in Uniejów in Poland by our group. The objective of the conference was to promote high-quality research in the field of Bioinformatics.More information:http://ptbi2017.cs.put.poznan.pl/