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NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 24

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 24

🏆 @beatrizurda.bsky.social - in the hurry of putting the award ceremony together, it seems our best talk prize for lost but you'll definitely receive the award from us anyway 🎉🎉

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 24

👏🏆 Congrats to our #NetBio2025 prize winners:
- Best Talk: Beatriz Urda-García
- Best Poster Method: Arne Wehling
- Best Poster Application: Sebastian Urquiza-Zurich
- Best Poster Tool: Estefania Torrejon

Thanks to all the (poster) presenters!!! It's amazing to have you in our community!!

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 24

🎉🏆 Our third featured winner from the #NetBio #Cytoscape Visualization Contest submitted by Michael Costanzo.

This beautiful visualization maps genetic interaction profile similarities among 3,784 human genes in HAP1 cells and their role in biological processes.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Another beautiful winning #Cytoscape #NetBio visualization by Jong Lim with a special and poetic description!

"...Formed in a circular format to resemble a human eye with tears, the network represents the genetic uphill battle some face from the moment they are born."
woobox.com/b9poce/galle...

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you, @cantinilab.bsky.social for the fantastic keynote and for sharing your insights with the #NetBio community at #ISMBECCB2025! It was a real pleasure having you with us.

Safe travels back to Paris! 🌍✈️

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨ Awesome network visualizations created by one of the winners of the #NetBio #Cytoscape visualization contest:
Alejandra Paulina Perez Gonzalez

#ISMBECCB2025

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎉 And now it is time to introduce our last and shared keynote with the Microbiome COSI:
@fionabrinkman.bsky.social is talking about "Microbiome multitudes and metadata madness" connecting the #Microbiome and #NetworkBiology communities!

#ISMBECCB2025

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

👋 We wrap up our #NetBio track 2025 with announcing the #Cytoscape network visualization competition winners (woobox.com/b9poce)

Congrats:
1: Alejandra Paulina Perez Gonzalez
2. Michael Costanzo
3. Jong Chan Lim

👏👏👏 Exciting to have Alejandra and Jong in the audience and congrats to Michael!

NetBio Cytoscape Visualization Competition

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨ And it's already time for the last selected #NetBio talk! Piotr Sliwa is presenting "Multilayer Networks Identify Clinically Relevant Patient Endotypes in COVID-19 and Sepsis"

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣Last speaker of the #NetBio morning session:
Samuele Firmani is presenting GATE (Graph Antiviral Target Explorer) to predict disease genes in viral infections with Message Passing Neural Networks"

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨Johannes Kersting just presented his cool #Nextflow Pipeline for Network-Based Disease Module Identification and Drug Repurposing

nf-co.re/diseasemodul...
github.com/nf-core/dise...
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #NetBio

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🎤 Next up is Terence Egbelo
He is sharing his research on "Improving Target-Adverse Event Association Prediction by Mitigating Topological Imbalance in Knowledge Graphs" with the #NetBio audience! ✨

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #KnowledgeGraphs

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

🔊 Nicoleta Siminea just presented her work on "Interactome-based computational solutions to support personalized drug therapy decisions in glioblastoma" at the #NetBio track at #ISMBECCB2025!

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

#NetBio talks are continuing in room 1B:

Dongmin Bang is presenting his proceeding paper on "MixingDTA: Improved Drug-Target Affinity Prediction by Extending Mixup with Guilt-By-Association"

doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 23

✨After a very well-attended first poster session with lots of discussions, we are now starting with the second day of #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025!

Make sure you visit our #NetworkBiology posters in the next two days! Lots of:
- tools/resources
- methods/algorithms
- biomedical applications/use cases

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

⌛It's already time for our last #NetBio speaker of today:

✨🔊We are excited to welcome our 2nd keynote speaker Jan Baumbach talking about "Quantum computing for network medicine-based epistatic disease mechanism mining - Fake it till you make it?" ✨

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎤 Next talk at #NetBio is by Aritra Bose from IBM Research presenting their work on "Quantum Random Walks for Biomarker Discovery in Biomolecular Networks".

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

After lots of #NetBio discussions over coffee, we are now starting the last session for today:
Lucas Gillenwater is presenting his #ISMBECCB2025 proceeding paper "GRACKLE: An interpretable matrix factorization approach for biomedical representation learning".

doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
#NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

Web application: disease-perception.bsc.es/rgenexcom/

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎤 Next talk at #NetBio:
@beatrizurda.bsky.social: Disentangling the genetic and non-genetic origin of disease co-occurrences

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

☕️ The #NetBio COSI team will be around during the 4PM coffee break in Room 1B!

Come chat about the COSI, getting involved, or anything else. We’ve got open roles (incl. one Abstract Chair position) for next year. Let’s connect if you are interested! #ISMBECCB2025

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔊 Next in #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025
Dewei Hu presents:
SPACE: STRING proteins as complementary embeddings

Cross-species network embeddings meet protein function prediction, leveraging STRING across 1,300+ eukaryotes. A powerful complement to sequence embeddings!

#NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎤 Next #NetBio talk:
Erik Sonnhammer presents #FunCoup6, an upgrade to the functional association network database, now with enhanced regulatory links, a redesigned interface, and powerful new tools for comparative interactomics and disease module analysis.
funcoup.org
#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

NetBio COSI @netbio.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎙️Next #NetBio talk: Kivilcim Ozturk uncovers how mutations in intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) disrupt protein interactions in cancer, revealing potential cellular vulnerabilities.

#ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology