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de.NBI Cloud Christmas Letter 2023

Dec 22, 2023
Dear de.NBI Cloud user, We would like to thank you for your support in the past year. The de.NBI Cloud has seen another rise in application and project numbers, which underlines the continued need for easily accessible scientific computing capabilities in Germany. Read more...

New Testimonial on OpenStack and the de.NBI Cloud

Nov 16, 2023
Dr. Dilmurat Yusuf from the Bioinformatics Group of the University of Freiburg has submitted a new testimonial in which he describes how the use of the de.NBI Cloud has facilitated the research work of his working group and emphasises the reliability of the infrastructure and the support provided. Read more...

New Testimonial: Interactions in the bacterial pathobiome associated with crown gall disease

Nov 06, 2023
Nemanja Kuzmanović from the Institute of Plant Protection in Horticulture and Urban Green of the Julius Kühn Institute has written a new testimonial on the work within the de.NBI Cloud. Read more...

New testimonial relating to Transposon element annotation

Oct 16, 2023
Jia-Wu Feng and Martin Mascher from the Domestication Genomics at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) have submitted a testimonial in which they give an insight into their work in the de.NBI Cloud in the context of Transposon element annotation. Read more...

New testimonial for SPAAM Summer School 2023

Oct 06, 2023
James Fellows Yates from the Microbiome Sciences Group of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has written a testimonial for the SPAAM Summer School 2023. Read more...

6th de.NBI Cloud User Meeting 2023 - Registration Open

Oct 02, 2023
This year, we are organizing the 6th de.NBI Cloud user meeting as an on-site, in person event at the DJH Youth Hostel in Bielefeld, Germany from November 27th - 29th, 2023. The registration is now open, participation is free-of-charge. https://events.denbi.de/e/clum2023 Read more...

Scheduled maintenance of the LifeScience AAI infrastructure

May 05, 2023
Dear user, due to a scheduled maintenance of the LifeScience AAI infrastructure on Tuesday, May 9th 2023, new user registrations and changes to project resources and membership will not be possible on that day. Access to your instances, if they require authentication via LifeScience AAI, should rem… Read more...

New testimonial regarding the 1st de.NBI BioHackathon

Jan 31, 2023
Naveed Ishaque, who is part of the SpaceHack organisation team, which organized the SpaceHack project as part of the de.NBI BioHackathon, has published a testimonial regarding the work with the cloud and and strongly encourages other hackathon and workshop organisers to use the de.NBI Cloud as well. Read more...

de.NBI Cloud Christmas Letter 2022

Dec 22, 2022
Dear de.NBI Cloud user, We would like to thank you for your support in the past year. The de.NBI Cloud has seen another rise in application and project numbers, which underlines the continued need for easily accessible scientific computing capabilities in Germany. Read more...

5th de.NBI Cloud User Meeting

Oct 25, 2022
For almost 5 years the de.NBI Cloud has provided free of charge computing resources to the life sciences community in Germany. Scientists involved in various research topics, such as metagenomics, medical imaging, epigenetics, and plant biology benefit from the opportunities provided by the de.NBI … Read more...

de.NBI Cloud enables Next Generation Plant Science

Sep 19, 2022
Prof. Boas Pucker from Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, TU Braunschweig has written a testimonial about the de.NBI Cloud Read more...

de.NBI Cloud Brochure online

Sep 13, 2022
We are delighted to present our new de.NBI brochure entitled “Development and operation of the federated de.NBI Cloud“. This brochure showcases the power, strength, and range of the de.NBI Cloud for the life science community by providing the ability to unlock research data and better collaborate a… Read more...

Computational solutions from data science and machine learning to solve biomedical problems

Aug 29, 2022
Prof. Dr. Dominik Heider has written a testimonial about the de.NBI Cloud. Read more...

Plant Breeding Driven By Big Data Analysis

Aug 03, 2022
Prof. Rod Snowdon, Dr. Agnieszka Golicz and Dr. Christian Obermeier from Plant Breeding Departement, Justus Liebig University Giessen have written a testimonial about their work with the de.NBI Cloud in the context of plant breeding and big data analysis. Read more...

ELIXIR AAI to Life Sciences AAI Migration on April 11th, 2022

Apr 11, 2022
Due to the migration of our central authentication and authorization component ELIXIR AAI to Life Sciences AAI, we expect temporary downtimes and unavailability of the de.NBI Cloud Portal on April 11th, 2022. Read more...

New Testimonial from GHGA

Jan 26, 2022
Kersten Breuer, Koray Kirli from The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive have written a testimonial about the de.NBI Cloud. Read more...

de.NBI Cloud Christmas Letter 2021

Dec 23, 2021
Dear de.NBI Cloud user, We would like to thank you for your support in the past year. The de.NBI Cloud has seen another rise in application and project numbers, which underlines the continued need for easily accessible scientific computing capabilities in Germany. Read more...

New Cloud Portal Features (December Update)

Dec 20, 2021
We have new features we would like you to know about! Read more...

4th de.NBI Cloud User Meeting

Nov 10, 2021
For almost 4 years the de.NBI Cloud has provided free of charge computing resources to the life sciences community in Germany. Scientists involved in various research topics, such as metagenomics, medical imaging, epigenetics, and plant biology benefit from the opportunities provided by the de.… Read more...

3rd de.NBI Cloud User Meeting

Aug 03, 2020
We are pleased to announce the third de.NBI Cloud User Meeting. In comparison to preceding meetings, this year`s meeting will be organized as an online conference. Read more...

de.NBI Cloud resources available to fight COVID-19

Jan 15, 2020
The number of SARS-CoV-2 infections increases dramatically in Germany and worldwide from day to day. This poses immense challenges for society and for each of us. Scientists involved in projects to curb the corona pandemic, prevent and treat COVID-19, or other corona virus related work will be giv… Read more...

2nd de.NBI Cloud User Meeting

Aug 01, 2019
The 2nd de.NBI Cloud User Meeting is an upcoming 3-day event (03.09.2019-05.09.2019) in Heidelberg for people interested in Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing or Big Data. Due to the diversity of approaches Read more...

1st de.NBI Cloud User Meeting, 29.-31.10.2018, Bielefeld University

Aug 01, 2019
The de.NBI Cloud offers compute power for life science research in Germany. Active for about a year now, many projects of all sizes and with a variety of use cases are using the vast capacity of the de.NBI Cloud. Due to the diversity of approaches that arise in this exciting and rapidly evolving cl… Read more...

de.NBI Cloud Newsletter March 2019

Mar 01, 2019
With 47 participants, the first de.NBI Cloud User Meeting took place in October 2018 in a 3 day event in Bielefeld. The user meeting was organized in a use case session with presentations from early adopters and a Hands-On session for learning new technologies and best practices in the Cloud. Wor… Read more...

ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum in Germany

Nov 15, 2018
Mon 15 October 2018, 11:00 to Tue 16 October 2018, 13:00 GMT – Frankfurt, Germany This free ELIXIR Innovation and SME Forum on Data Driven Innovation in Industrial Biotechnology in Frankfurt is open to both large and small companies and aims to inform about ELIXIR resources and create a space to… Read more...

de.NBI Cloud Newsletter September 2018

Sep 01, 2018
The de.NBI Cloud has now more than 250 registered developers and 80 projects that scale from 1 virtual machine for simple pipeline development projects up to 100 virtual machines for Big Data use cases. Among those projects there are projects like Galaxy.eu and PhenoMeNal which are used Read more...