Barbera D. C. van Schaik | Bioinformatician
Bioinformatics Laboratory – Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Location AMC | Room J1b-218-1 | PO box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam
T: +31 20 566 68 80 | E: b.d.vanschaik [at] amc.uva.nl
Absent: Friday
I’m broadly interested in DNA research and techniques that aid the analysis, and enjoy teaching these topics to students and other researchers. I have worked on topics ranging from transcriptomics and alternative splicing to virus discovery, comparing bacterial genomes, and searching for variants in whole exome data. Currently I work in the field of immunogenomics.
Projects
- Immunogenomics
- Reconstruction of B cell lineages (current)
- Analysis pipeline for TCR and BCR repertoire sequencing (current)
- Discovery of invariant T cells
- e-Science
- Optimization of sequence alignment on a grid infrastructure
- Porting the GoNL analysis pipeline to the Dutch life science grid
- Grid-based BLAST gateway
- Exome and whole genome sequencing
- Nicolaides Baraitser
- Genome of the Netherlands (GoNL)
- Assembly and comparison of bacterial genomes
- Pneumococcal meningitis
- Alternative splicing
- Identification of alternative exon use
- Virus discovery
- VIDISCA-454 sequence analysis
- Human transcriptome map
- Discovery of high and low expressed regions of the genome
- USAGE – Gene expression analysis on SAGE data
- Addition of statistical methods to the USAGE application
Personal stuff
In my spare time I go to concerts and festivals, cook (all cuisines), grow vegetables in my garden, read books (fantasy, popular science/philosophy, Dutch literature) and make things (sewing, electronics, laser cutting, welding, 3d-printing, a house). Occasionally, I write about my hobbies and I maintain a database with Indonesian recipes: http://rabarbera.nl/