title: Proceedings of the EuBIC Winter School 2017.
abstract: The 2017 EuBIC Winter School was held from January 10th to January 13th 2017 in Semmering, Austria. This meeting gathered international researchers in the fields of bioinformatics and proteomics to discuss current challenges in data analysis and biological interpretation. This article outlines the scientific program and exchanges that took place on this occasion and presents the current challenges of this ever-growing field.
  
  
  
  The EUPA bioinformatics community (EuBIC) organized its first winter school in January 2017. This successful event illustrates the growing need of the bioinformatics community in proteomics to gather and discuss current and future challenges in the field. In addition to the organization of yearly meetings, the young and active EuBIC community aims to develop new collaborative open source projects, spread bioinformatics knowledge in Europe, and actively promote data sharing through public repositories.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
authors.forename: Sander
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authors.lastname: Willems
authors.affiliation: CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale), Toulouse, France; Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: David
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authors.lastname: Bouyssié
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Sciences du Numérique de Nantes, Nantes University, 44035 Nantes, France.
authors.forename: Matthieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: David
authors.affiliation: CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et Biologie Structurale), Toulouse, France; Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Locard-Paulet
authors.affiliation: Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria; IMBA Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Dr. Bohr-Gasse 3, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mechtler
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, VILLUM Center for Bioanalytical Sciences, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark.
authors.forename: Veit
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schwämmle
authors.affiliation: Medizinisches Proteom-Center, Ruhr-University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44801 Bochum, Germany.
authors.forename: Julian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Uszkoreit
authors.affiliation: KG Jebsen Center for Diabetes Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Norway; Center for Medical Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vaudel
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics Research Group, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Softwarepark 11, 4232 Hagenberg, Austria. Electronic address: viktoria.dorfer@fh-hagenberg.at.
authors.forename: Viktoria
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authors.lastname: Dorfer
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration; D005060:Europe; D040901:Proteomics / Q000193:education / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D012958:Societies, Scientific
keywords: Bioinformatics; Mass spectrometry; Proteomics; Winter School