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The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an internationally recognized non-profit organization dedicated to biological and biomedical #DataScience. We provide essential resources, expertise and services and represent Swiss bioinformatics.

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · Aug 20

👀 What does bioinformatics look like in practise? This year's SIB Profile cover shows an example. See how connecting scattered data on plant chemicals can help identify new drugs and more – plus explore further contributions to science and society – in the #SIBProfile 2025: issuu.com/sibswissinst...

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yifanzhao.bsky.social @yifanzhao.bsky.social · 3d

Super grateful that our scETM work (from my summer internship with Dr. Yue Li, in collab. with Huiyu Cai and @tangjian.bsky.social) was recognized with an honourable mention at SIB PhD Paper Award competition. Many thanks to the jury and congrats to @meyerdh.bsky.social and Can Chen! #bc2basel

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 29d

The PhD Paper Award jury gives honourable mentions to:

Can Chen for “Structure-Aware Protein Self-Supervised Learning” doi.org/10.1093/bioi...

Yifan Zhao for “Learning interpretable cellular and gene signature embeddings from single-cell transcriptomic data” doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Structure-aware protein self-supervised learning

AbstractMotivation. Protein representation learning methods have shown great potential to many downstream tasks in biological applications. A few recent st

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 9d

Tools for tomorrow: infectious disease 🦠 webinar series

🔬 Monthly updates with new tools & insights for the infectious disease research community.

📅 Every 2nd Friday, 10–11 AM EST (starting Oct 10, 2025)
💻 Virtual via Teams

Register 👉 tinyurl.com/NIAIDBRCWebi...

THE NIAID BRCS PRESENT TOOLS FOR TOMORROW INFECTIOUS DISEASE WEBINAR SERIES

The NIAID-funded Bioinformatics Resource Centers provide sustainable, data-driven platforms, portable computational tools, and interoperability standards - all designed to serve the infectious diseases research community. Register now to hear monthly updates across the BRCs.
SECOND FRIDAY EVERY MONTH
STARTING OCTOBER 10TH 2025 2:00 PM -2:30 PM UTC
Please register at
https://tinyurl.com/NIAIDBRCWebinar

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 9d

Julien Gobeill from SIB and Wolmar Nyberg Åkerström from @uu.se will co-chair a #SciDataCon2025 session on turning supplementary & generalist repository data into FAIR datasets on 14/10, 11:30am. Making hidden research data usable for all. 🔓📊

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#FAIRdata #OpenScience

SciDataCon 2025

SciDataCon 2025 Programme Daily programme schedules for SciDataCon 2025 have been published. IDW 2025 full programme can be consulted at: https://idw2025.org/program-at-a-glance/ About SciDataCon SciD...

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Katja @jaggakatja.bsky.social · 15d

Looking forward to #LS2AM2026 and our mini-symposium “Bioinformatics Driving the One Health Concept”, organised by the LS2 Intersection Bioinformatics @sib.swiss.
Main speaker: Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social on @pathoplexus.org and how bioinformatics drives biomedical insights.

Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2) @lifesciswitzerland.bsky.social · 15d

🚨 Save the date!
LS2 Annual Meeting 2026:
📍 Zürich | 🗓 Feb 11–12 (YSS: Feb 10)
Join us for keynotes by Sarah-Maria Fendt, Heidi McBride & Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz + 11 symposia, poster session, & networking.
🔗 Abstracts due Nov 9
🔗 Register by Jan 11, 2026: annual-meeting.ls2.ch/2026/registr...

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 13d

Such great insights and memories from the 2025 [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference – check out, or revisit, the highlights👇
Thanks again to our amazing scientific committee – and see you at the next edition in 2027!

Experts share AI and bioinformatics innovations for data-driven biology

The 17th edition of SIB’s flagship biennial event, the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, continued its long-standing success in connecting the Swiss and global bioinformatics communi...

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 19d

RNA’s mysteries meet AI 🧬🤖

Join us at @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social on 8 Oct 2025 for a mini-symposium exploring how AI is decoding one of life’s most fascinating molecules.

👉 Register here: www.sib.swiss/conferences/...

#RNA #AI #Bioinformatics

AI for RNA Biology - Mini-Symposium

Twenty-five years from now, fascination with RNA will likely span disciplines, gaining both visibility and conceptual depth, its influence spreading as irresistibly as its viral forms. Decoding RNA&rs...

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 20d

"Within the competition to bring this field to a new level, SimuCell3D is remarkable and will mark a clear evolution of the topic."
🥁That’s what the committee said about this #SIBRemarkableOutputs 2024
👉Discover the output: tinyurl.com/53arz2rz
@iberd.bsky.social

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 22d

Our website is now available in automated German, French and Italian translations, in addition to the authoritative English. As the national organisation for life science data, discover our contributions to healthier, more sustainable societies and a stronger Switzerland. Learn more: 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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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 · 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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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 27d

We're glad you had a good time with us! Thanks for coming and see you soon.

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 27d

Glad you enjoyed the conference. Thanks for coming.

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 27d

Thanks a lot for coming! We were glad to have you.

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

That will be all for this year’s [BC]² 2025. Thank you to all the speakers, sponsors and attendees for making this edition such a success. We wish you a safe journey home 👋 and see you at @eccb-europe.bsky.social in 2026 and at the next edition of [BC]² in 2027! #bc2basel

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

We now turn to the closing words from @dessimoz.bsky.social, SIB’s Executive Director.

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

We’ve reached the last session of [BC]² 2025 with the closing keynote address from Julia Merkenschlager who is presenting (remotely) on immunology. Title of her talk: “Affinity maturation: Against the odds” #bc2basel

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Congratulations to all #posterprize winners!
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Qingyao Huang for
“Fostering Sustainability and Environmental Awareness at Work” #bc2basel #posterprize

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Siyuan Luo for
“On metrics for subpopulation detection in single-cell and spatial omics data” #bc2basel #posterprize

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Océane Follonier @oceanef.bsky.social for
“From bytes to binders: design, score and optimize” #bc2basel #posterprize

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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Laura Voitl
“Identifying Genetic Variants for a Mendelian Trait using Long Read Sequencing in Three Domestic Animal Species” #bc2basel #posterprize

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Benjamin Heiniger for
“Proteogenomics identifies conserved and lineage-specific novel small proteins in clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis reference strains” #bc2basel #posterprize

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Alen Stambolliu for
“Deciphering Retrotransposable Elements dynamics in tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes through combination of short- and long-read single-cell RNA sequencing” #bc2basel #posterprize

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 28d

Poster prize winners for #bc2basel 2025 are: Cassandra Litchfield for “Integrating FFPE derived Whole Genome Sequencing into Routine Molecular Pathology: Validation and Establishment of a Bioinformatics Workflow” and…

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Markus List @itisalist.bsky.social · 28d

I enjoyed visiting the BC2 conference: cool talks,
great networking, beautiful location. Thanks to the organizers at @sib.swiss I appreciated especially today's session on startups in bioinformatics, that was insightful.

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