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Bgee database
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Bgee is a database at SIB and UNIL to retrieve and compare gene expression patterns in multiple animal species.
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Network Medicine GPT trained on PrimeKG which used @bgee.org expression knowledge: curated data is useful data.
marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
First talk of "Al in Biology & Medicine" #lgd2026 session:
Jan Baumbach "Network Medicine GPT -A knowledge-graphs based foundation model for drug repurposing"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.04.697552v1.full
I see with pleasure that the knowledge graph they trained on, PrimeKG ( […]
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February 2, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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CAMK1D is "mostly expressed in the central nervous system within mammals" as seen through Bgee's integration and comparison of data in 25 mammals
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Bgee Expression Comparison
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February 2, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to Bgee and the two complementary SwissOrthology knowledgebases, OMA and OrthoDB, for being selected as ELIXIR Core Data Resources! See more👇

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Three further SIB knowledgebases gain prestigious European recognition
A total of eight expertly curated knowledgebases developed by SIB scientists are now designated as ELIXIR Core Data Resources (CDRs) – with the three new additions representing half of those sel...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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Congratulations to Xenbase for 25 years of froggy biocuration!
January 8, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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We are excited to announce a new training course on Bgee 🧬
Course: Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee
Date: Friday 29 May 2026
Taught by: the Bgee team (Frédéric Bastian and Marc Robinson-Rechavi)
Learn more: www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
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Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee
Overview This is a course on bioinformatics resources taught by the developers of the resources. Bgee is a curated database of gene expression in anim
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December 16, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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All of the Bgee team shares the shock and sadness of the community. Amos's support was instrumental in guiding Bgee towards high quality curation and a focus on being useful to the community. He will be deeply missed. @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (@sib.swiss)
We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Amos Bairoch, pioneer of bioinformatics and co-founder of SIB. His lifelong commitment for high-quality, open data transformed global research. We…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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🧬 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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September 15, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Unlike other rhodopsins, fly Rh7 is expressed in many non-retinal neurons. This recent preprint shows why, and Bgee shows where 🤓 🪰
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September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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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.org Bgee database @bgee.org · Sep 14
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
September 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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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
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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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.
August 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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The Bgee website has been experiencing some issues, thank you for your patience while we work to solve them.
August 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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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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July 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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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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June 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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📣 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
June 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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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
May 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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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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April 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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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April 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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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
April 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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@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
April 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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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. :)
February 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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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February 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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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
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February 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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ZFIN is now on Bluesky!
February 3, 2025 at 11:00 PM