The Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics is a collaborative venture between UCL and Birkbeck College. The BCB is affiliated with the Institute of Structural Molecular Biology.

About the BCB

Research
The BCB acts as a focus for world-class research excellence in bioinformatics within UCL, Birkbeck College and affiliated institutes.

Support
We can provide bioinformatics expertise to develop collaborative research projects between the Centre and research groups within UCL and Birkbeck College.

Training
We conduct a series of tailored training courses to meet the specific needs of members of UCL and Birkbeck College.

Bioinformatics News and Events at UCL/BBK

Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD Interdisciplinary programme in Structural, Computational and Chemical Biology at UCL/Birkbeck/NIMR

The BCB is a partner in a unique new 4-year PhD programme which addresses key research questions at the interface of chemistry, protein structure and bioinformatics. We are now accepting applications for entry in October 2009. The application deadline is Wednesday 14th January 2009. For more information, including how to apply, visit the programme home page.

Bioinformatics Database is SET for Success!

Congratulations to James Beattie, MSc Computer Science, for winning the 2008 Science, Engineering and Technology Microsoft Research Award for the Best Computational Science Student www.setawards.org

The award committee judged that James' final year project, Support for Transforming Data between Bioinformatics Resources, supervised by Anthony Finkelstein in collaboration with Jacky Pallas, was judged the best in the computational science category. James developed a flexible database for capturing and annotating microarray results. The database is being used to analyse ChIP-chip experiments as part of the BCB microarray support service. Please contact Sonia Shah (mail to: PLEASE ENABLE JAVASCRIPT TO VIEW OUR EMAIL ADDRESSES) for further details.