We're getting ready for Maustag 2025 www.mdsi.tum.de/en/mdsi/late... at the @tum.de Munich Data Science Institute, where we @daisybio.de plan to show children why AI and bioinformatics are important for studying the code of life. I dare say that our first practice session went quite well :-)

And for those who enjoyed our tutorial on network medicine and drug repurposing: if you are spontaneous, consider joining us for the RExPO conference organized by @repo4eu.bsky.social repo4.eu/rexpo25/ later this month.

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.

En route to Basel for the @sib.swiss #BC2 conference. We're contributing to a workshop on 🕸️ network medicine and 💊 drug repurposing, with tools developed in @repo4eu.bsky.social incl. drugst.one for which we've just released the DREAM extension doi.org/10.58647/DRU... simplifying expert annotation.

A flowery surprise at our @tum.de campus Freising yesterday. Congratulations to all students who celebrated their graduation.

En route to visit the @cosybio-uhh.bsky.social lab in Hamburg who are kindly organizing the latest @repo4eu.bsky.social WP2 workshop. Looking forward to discussing the refinement of our computational pipelines for drug repurposing. Hope the train will not be too much delayed...

Had a great time in Innsbruck. The scenery here with the mountains in the background is always impressive, even when the weather is not so nice. Thanks @francescafinotello.bsky.social for inviting me!

For those of you who are not in Innsbruck to see me today, you might instead listen to @judith-bernett.bsky.social at the @iscb.bsky.social NetBio webinar!

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Traveling to Innsbruck by invitation of @francescafinotello.bsky.social to talk about data leakage, a widespread issue in biomedical machine learning applications. I'll talk about challenges in protein-protein interaction (doi.org/10.1093/bib/...) and drug response prediction (upcoming preprint!).

We realize here that PPI networks might look different than we think. Normalizing for study bias promotes proteins such as chaperones and demotes disease-relevant proteins, showing that disease-attention bias could potentially be mitigated.

I'm excited to visit the German University in Cairo next week as a speaker of the GEM-CAP symposium on Microbiome and Bioinformatics. Participation is free and registration open until Nov. 25th if you happen to be around: www.guc.edu.eg/Conference/G...

Had great fun attending the #gcb2024 in Bielefeld. Our group had the honor of contributing 2 talks (Judith Bernett on guiding questions to avoid data leakage and Johannes Kersting on GRN inference with DysRegNet. A surprise at the end: Alex Dietrich won the poster prize with the project omnideconv!

Nice to see that Bluesky is getting some traction.