Bioinformatics in the Netherlands: The value of a nationwide community

This review provides a historical overview of the inception and development of bioinformatics research in the Netherlands. Rooted in theoretical biology by foundational figures such as Paulien Hogeweg (at Utrecht University since the 1970s), the developments leading to organizational structures supporting a relatively large Dutch bioinformatics...

Predicting functional effect of human missense mutations

Our aim is to prioritize human missense mutations by their probability of being disease causing. Such a computational method could be used to obtain a reduced set of mutations with a relatively large fraction of disease related mutations, thereby aiding in the search for this type of mutation within a large mutation set.<br/><br/>Whereas a range...

Proposal for an enzyme redesign method to improve production rates in Aspergillus niger

Relating sequence properties to protein secretion

Aspergillus niger is widely used for industrial enzyme production. Knowledge on high-level protein secretion could be useful to improve production rates. We used sequencebased classification methods to identify important properties<br/>for successful high-level secretion, which will be used to redesign proteins for improved secretion.

Logic gene network design: a software tool based on modularity and standardization