The olive was one of the first trees to be domesticated in the history of mankind, probably some 6,000 years ago. A Mediterranean emblem par excellence, it is of vital importance to the Spanish and other regional economies (Italy, Greece and Portugal). In fact, Spain is the leading producer of...

Four new papers, co-published by several BLUEPRINT members and others in Nature Biotechnology and Nature Communications, mark the feasibility of epigenetic analysis for clinical diagnostics and precision medicine.  ...

BBMRI- LPC (Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – Large Prospective Cohorts) is one of the largest biobanking networks in Europe aiming to facilitate scientists’ access to large prospective study sets on...

Tomàs Marquès-Bonet has been appointed new Vice Director of the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF) in substitution of David Comas, who was recently appointed Director of the UPF CEXS Department. Tomàs Marquès-Bonet is the leader of the Comparative Genomics team with dual affiliation...

BCN, May 2016.- The Centre Nacional d’Anàlisi Genòmica (CNAG-CRG), one of the leading genome analysis centers in Europe is pleased to announce that has been accredited according to UNE-EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standard by ENAC (Entidad Nacional de Acreditación) who is an independent non-profit...

The CNAG Data Analysis team organised the 2nd CNAG Workshop “Introduction to Genome Analysis” on April 6th, 2016. Sergi Beltran, Sophia Derdak, Raul Tonda and Steven Laurie gave seminars and led an extensive hands-on session. The main topics of the workshop were to explain the principles of genomic...