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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 23d

🧬 US genomics expert Paul Thomas joins SIB as Swiss-Prot co-director, with @alanbridge.bsky.social
🔍 Leader in gene function research; among the world’s most-cited scientists
📊 His arrival strengthens SIB’s role in generating trustworthy, AI-ready biological knowledge #UniProt #GeneOntology
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US genomics pioneer Paul Thomas joins SIB as Swiss-Prot co-director

Paul Thomas joins Alan Bridge in leading SIB’s largest group, based in Geneva. As a pioneer in computational biology for genomics, principal investigator of a globally important resource on gene...

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Bgee database @bgee.org · 21d

Unlike other rhodopsins, fly Rh7 is expressed in many non-retinal neurons. This recent preprint shows why, and Bgee shows where 🤓 🪰
www.bgee.org/search/expre...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @pingkalai.bsky.social @v-kirsch.bsky.social

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Bgee database @bgee.org · 23d

We are back online! Thank you to all teams @unil.bsky.social for their help in securing our infrastructure. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social

Bgee database @bgee.org · 24d

Following water dammage in the building which hosts our servers, electricity had to be turned off. Thus Bgee and all other databases from the @marcrr.bsky.social group are offline. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring them back online. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social

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Bgee database @bgee.org · 24d

Following water dammage in the building which hosts our servers, electricity had to be turned off. Thus Bgee and all other databases from the @marcrr.bsky.social group are offline. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring them back online. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Aug 27

We have improved the situation with the website and thank you for your patience. We are continuing to make changes to prevent this from happening in the future.

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Aug 19

The Bgee website has been experiencing some issues, thank you for your patience while we work to solve them.

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · Jul 4

Very nice preprint on the importance of #FAIR data resources in the life sciences, for AI and generally for science, by a great @sib.swiss team led by @dessimoz.bsky.social. With @bgee.org inside ;)
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The missing link in FAIR data policy: data resources

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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · Jun 4

Registration is open for our @sib.swiss course Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions! Orthologs, paralogs, non model animal genomes, comparison of gene expression and of function, and more!
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Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions

Overview The aims of this biodiversity bioinformatics course are to (i) explore key evolutionary concepts, (ii) examine different methodological appro

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ELIXIR Europe @elixir-europe.org · Jun 24

📣 ELIXIR has published a position paper on the importance of #OpenData infrastructure for 🌍 European competitiveness in life sciences.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/22XW72k

#ResearchInfrastructure #Science4EU

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Bgee database @bgee.org · May 22

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Bgee database @bgee.org · May 22

The SIB course "Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee" is now available. I you want hands-on experience with Bgee check out our tutorial "The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals" at #BC2. buff.ly/IQc9uGD buff.ly/BI5jySb

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Apr 17

The programme for the #bc2basel tutorials & workshops is out! Including our tutorial T10 - The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals. bc2.ch/tutorials-wo... bsky.app/profile/sib.... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social

Tutorials & workshops

The [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference is Switzerland's main event in the domain of Computational Biology and one of the major events of its kind in Europe. The conference unites scientists…

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Apr 15

We are excited to release our gene expression heatmap visualization tool. Add genes and identify which organs or cell types the genes are highly or lowly expressed in. Try it out here: www.bgee.org/search/expre...
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Bgee database @bgee.org · Apr 7

We had a great time at our workshop on FAIRification of single-cell RNA-Seq data and sharing the goals of #scFAIR at #biocuration2025 @biocurator.bsky.social

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · Apr 3

@bgee.org was used to design stem-cell based vaccines 💉against cancer in mouse models, opening a door to potential application with humans.

🔎 This is an example of the impact that bioinformatics databases and tools developed by SIB groups have.

👉 www.sib.swiss/services/ope...

#SIBResourceImpacts

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albdrg.bsky.social @albdrg.bsky.social · Feb 19

This looks great. I plan to use Bgee open data to further annotate genomic on the fly. I'm already using Wikidata and Uniprot. All this sounds exciting. :)

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Feb 10

Bgee has been featured this week by the Global Biodata Coalition! Bgee is a database for retrieval and comparison of gene expression patterns across multiple animal species.

Read more here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bgee-g...

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What kind of data does this resource provide? Bgee is a database for retrieval and comparison of gene expression patterns across multiple animal species. It provides an intuitive answer to the questio...

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · Feb 4

The SIB Swiss Institute of #Bioinformatics is on Bluesky! We’re a non-profit organization dedicated to biological & biomedical #dataScience, supporting research & innovation. Follow us for updates on personalized health, biodiversity, pathogens, open science and more. Visit us at sib.swiss

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Data scientists for life

As a leading organization in biological and biomedical data science, SIB maximizes scientific impact through FAIR data, biodata resources, and innovation.

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Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN) @zfinmod.bsky.social · Feb 3

ZFIN is now on Bluesky!

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Jan 8

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Jan 8

SWAT4HCLS 2024 conference proceedings are published, including this paper from Rangel et al which shows how Bgee's open data and integration with Wikidata can be used to train LLMs for complex queries. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3890/paper-4.pdf @marcrr.bsky.social @swat4hcls.bsky.social

SPARQL Generation: an analysis on fine-tuningOpenLLaMA for Question Answering over a LifeScience Knowledge Graph

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Jan 7

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Jan 7

The SIB course “Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee” is now available. This course covers the curated gene expression data in Bgee, how to detect active genes from RNA-Seq, and the various tools available to access Bgee gene expression data. https://buff.ly/4j3Zhus

Bgee Course 2024: Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee

The 2024 course on Bgee: a curated database of gene expression in animals, including model species such as human, mouse, and drosophila, and others such as l...

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Bgee database @bgee.org · Dec 11

Bgee in 2024! Single-cell integrated with bulk RNAseq and other technologies, 52 species, and new programmatic and web access.
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Bgee in 2024: focus on curated single-cell RNA-seq datasets, and query tools

Bgee (https://www.bgee.org/) is a database to retrieve and compare gene expression patterns in multiple animal species

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