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Holiday catch-up

Hi all, Now that the team is finally back from days off, we can start writing more here (and do some more science, miauw!). For now, we put a lot of work in an AOP information gathering website, which should result in some nice AOP being built before the end of the year (check our portal ). Besides this, lots of manual curation was done on our Pathway collection (check our wiki ). This curation was needed for a poster presentation at the ISMB conference in Prague, where the work of several of our colleagues was presented on shortest path calculations  in a metabolite directed network. For now, we wish you a nice summer and hope you check out our Twitter account.

Another day, more bachelor internship presentations, and cake!

So, today we  see more student presentations. Lots of talks about SNPs (which are not related to our PhD unfortunately); these BSc students are on their way to becoming MSc students. Two of the talks are related to obesity, a growing epidemic. However, the reasons why certain people become obese, can be caused by small changes in genes (among others, off course). Also, an important Adverse Outcome Pathway(AOP) Telcon took place this morning, in which we proposed an AOP-development strategy. The discussion was very fruitful and the partners of EU-ToxRisk were very positive about the strategy proposal. Soon we will kick off the AOP development, in which BiGCaT will have a supervising and organizing role in the process. On the sidenote, our colleague made a delicious blackberry cheescake . F is famous for her cakes, so we were lucky that we could grab the last couple of slices. We hope that the cake will be digested in a metabolically sound way, not stored as fat-cells, so we are not

Start of a blog!

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Today, we created our own blog, SMaLLCaT, to follow our Open Science Guru (who is also our supervisor) into the online world of communication about science. Guess the name of our research group... BiGCaT! While we are writing our first post, there are bachelor thesis presentations going on. These studentes are on the verge of finishing their bachelor internships. Quite interesting! However, on important matter, F has cake tomorrow! During the break we had an elaborate discussion about a cake we will receive tommorow, because one of our collegeas is invited to give  talk at a conference. The cake will probably consist out of apples, and little black berries that look like raspberries, but aren't. Apparently the english translation for 'bramen' is fairly straight forward... blackberries.. Looking forward to a apple-blackberry cheescake!!