SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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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.
We provide essential resources, expertise and services and represent Swiss bioinformatics.
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👀 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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🚀 Partner with ECCB 2026 in Geneva (31 Aug–4 Sept), gathering 1,000+ experts in compbio, bioinformatics, AI, biodiversity & data-driven health, to:
🔹Showcase your innovations
🔹Increase your visibility in Europe
🔹Recruit top talents
👉 Explore our packages: eccb2026.org/become-partner
🔹Showcase your innovations
🔹Increase your visibility in Europe
🔹Recruit top talents
👉 Explore our packages: eccb2026.org/become-partner
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🚀 Partner with ECCB 2026 in Geneva (31 Aug–4 Sept), gathering 1,000+ experts in compbio, bioinformatics, AI, biodiversity & data-driven health, to:
🔹Showcase your innovations
🔹Increase your visibility in Europe
🔹Recruit top talents
👉 Explore our packages: eccb2026.org/become-partner
🔹Showcase your innovations
🔹Increase your visibility in Europe
🔹Recruit top talents
👉 Explore our packages: eccb2026.org/become-partner
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Cannot hide my joy, relief, excitement being able to share the outcome of persevering (to say the least) collaborative work. So... the MS glyco(proteomics) guidelines are published!! www.mcponline.org/article/S153...
Many thanks to @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @glycosmos.bsky.social @sib.swiss
Many thanks to @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @glycosmos.bsky.social @sib.swiss
Update and new implementation of the MIRAGE reporting guidelines for mass spectrometry experiments in glycoscience
The MIRAGE (Minimum Information Required for A Glycomics Experiment) guidelines for
mass spectrometry (MS) data were initially developed to standardize the reporting
of instrumentation, data acquisiti...
www.mcponline.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Cannot hide my joy, relief, excitement being able to share the outcome of persevering (to say the least) collaborative work. So... the MS glyco(proteomics) guidelines are published!! www.mcponline.org/article/S153...
Many thanks to @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @glycosmos.bsky.social @sib.swiss
Many thanks to @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @glycosmos.bsky.social @sib.swiss
🗣️ “Several of the past winners of this award and their work have been very inspiring and important to me”, said @skinnider.bsky.social, SIB Bioinformatics Early Career Award 2025 laureate.
Read full interview. www.sib.swiss/news/several...
Read full interview. www.sib.swiss/news/several...
“Several of the past winners of this award and their work have been very inspiring and important to me”
Michael Skinnider, assistant professor at Princeton University (US), received the SIB Bioinformatics Early Career Award 2025 at the [BC]2 conference in Basel. The jury was particularly impressed by th...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🗣️ “Several of the past winners of this award and their work have been very inspiring and important to me”, said @skinnider.bsky.social, SIB Bioinformatics Early Career Award 2025 laureate.
Read full interview. www.sib.swiss/news/several...
Read full interview. www.sib.swiss/news/several...
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📢 New Scientific Talk!
🗣️“Cancer Genomics Data: From Local Resources to Global Federation with GA4GH Standards”, by Dr. Michael Baudis (Professor at University of Zurich & Group Leader at
@sib.swiss)
🗓️ December 18th, 2025
📌 Felix Serratosa, @PCB_UB (BCN)
📝Register here: www.cnag.eu/scientific-t...
🗣️“Cancer Genomics Data: From Local Resources to Global Federation with GA4GH Standards”, by Dr. Michael Baudis (Professor at University of Zurich & Group Leader at
@sib.swiss)
🗓️ December 18th, 2025
📌 Felix Serratosa, @PCB_UB (BCN)
📝Register here: www.cnag.eu/scientific-t...
November 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
📢 New Scientific Talk!
🗣️“Cancer Genomics Data: From Local Resources to Global Federation with GA4GH Standards”, by Dr. Michael Baudis (Professor at University of Zurich & Group Leader at
@sib.swiss)
🗓️ December 18th, 2025
📌 Felix Serratosa, @PCB_UB (BCN)
📝Register here: www.cnag.eu/scientific-t...
🗣️“Cancer Genomics Data: From Local Resources to Global Federation with GA4GH Standards”, by Dr. Michael Baudis (Professor at University of Zurich & Group Leader at
@sib.swiss)
🗓️ December 18th, 2025
📌 Felix Serratosa, @PCB_UB (BCN)
📝Register here: www.cnag.eu/scientific-t...
👉 Make sure to register for this webinar on 27 November, in which Emma Hodcroft will present “PathoPlexus: A Community-Driven Solution for Transparent and Equitable Viral Genomic Data Sharing”.
📢 Next Viruses in silico lecture:
🎙️ Pathoplexus: A Community-Driven Solution for Transparent and Equitable Viral Genomic Data Sharing
👩🔬 Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social (@swisstph.ch @sib.swiss)
🗓️ 27 Nov 2025 🕑 4 PM CET
📍 Zoom - Register to receive login details
👉 tinyurl.com/VirInSilico
🎙️ Pathoplexus: A Community-Driven Solution for Transparent and Equitable Viral Genomic Data Sharing
👩🔬 Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social (@swisstph.ch @sib.swiss)
🗓️ 27 Nov 2025 🕑 4 PM CET
📍 Zoom - Register to receive login details
👉 tinyurl.com/VirInSilico
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
👉 Make sure to register for this webinar on 27 November, in which Emma Hodcroft will present “PathoPlexus: A Community-Driven Solution for Transparent and Equitable Viral Genomic Data Sharing”.
Join our upcoming @fidelis-project.bsky.social network training event, organized by SIB, to explore: AI for Digital Repositories: Opportunities and Challenges, on 2 December 2025, 15:00–16:30 CET. eden-fidelis.eu/events/ai-di...
@sduvaud.bsky.social @geertvangeest.bsky.social
@sduvaud.bsky.social @geertvangeest.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Join our upcoming @fidelis-project.bsky.social network training event, organized by SIB, to explore: AI for Digital Repositories: Opportunities and Challenges, on 2 December 2025, 15:00–16:30 CET. eden-fidelis.eu/events/ai-di...
@sduvaud.bsky.social @geertvangeest.bsky.social
@sduvaud.bsky.social @geertvangeest.bsky.social
“This public recognition is an important step towards my goal of setting up my own lab” says @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award Laureate 2025 in his interview www.sib.swiss/news/this-pu...
“This public recognition is an important step towards my goal of setting up my own lab”
David Meyer, Bioinformatician at the Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease, Uniklinik Köln, received the SIB Bioinformatics PhD Paper Award 2025 for his paper “Aging...
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November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“This public recognition is an important step towards my goal of setting up my own lab” says @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award Laureate 2025 in his interview www.sib.swiss/news/this-pu...
💡 UniProt will provide a more complete and non-redundant reference for proteins and their functions, with the new changes outlined below ⬇️.
The changes will simplify and streamline searches, analyses and downloads for users, and better support comparative proteomics research.
The changes will simplify and streamline searches, analyses and downloads for users, and better support comparative proteomics research.
UniProt is changing its reference proteomes resource.
Reference proteomes will remain in UniProtKB, while others will move to UniParc.
Read more about these changes:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
🧬 🖥️
Uniprot is a collaboration between EMBL-EBI, @sib.swiss & the Protein Information Resource.
Reference proteomes will remain in UniProtKB, while others will move to UniParc.
Read more about these changes:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
🧬 🖥️
Uniprot is a collaboration between EMBL-EBI, @sib.swiss & the Protein Information Resource.
Changes to UniProt proteomes
UniProt, the data resource for protein sequence and function information, is making major changes to its proteomes resource and to the UniProt Knowledgebase. UniProt has developed a new workflow that ...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:47 AM
💡 UniProt will provide a more complete and non-redundant reference for proteins and their functions, with the new changes outlined below ⬇️.
The changes will simplify and streamline searches, analyses and downloads for users, and better support comparative proteomics research.
The changes will simplify and streamline searches, analyses and downloads for users, and better support comparative proteomics research.
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Beyond science, the stakes are national. Having Swiss-based, reference-quality data collections — managed in line with our laws and values — strengthens our ability to make informed decisions and act independently.
💡 No AI in health without great data. In @BilanMagazine’s health supplement, Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social makes the case for Switzerland as a leader in trusted, high-quality health data — and how turning data into public value starts with strong infrastructures.
👇 Read more
👇 Read more
Reliable data for better care
Every medical revolution has been driven by a technological breakthrough: chemical synthesis paved the way for modern medicines, genetics for the first gene therapies. The next frontier will be determ...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Beyond science, the stakes are national. Having Swiss-based, reference-quality data collections — managed in line with our laws and values — strengthens our ability to make informed decisions and act independently.
SIB is organizing the next edition of #eccb2026 (Geneva, 31.08.2026 - 04.09.2026), and we are now inviting the community to submit their tutorial and workshop proposals.
👉 A great opportunity to share tools, methods and expertise with 1,000+ international participants. Deadline: 5 January 2026.
👉 A great opportunity to share tools, methods and expertise with 1,000+ international participants. Deadline: 5 January 2026.
📣 The call for tutorials & workshops at #ECCB2026 is now open! Share your tools, methods or expertise with the community.
🗓️ Deadline: 5 January 2026
👉 Submit: tinyurl.com/tw-eccb26
💡 ECCB will take place on 31 Aug–4 Sept in Geneva, gathering 1,000+ scientists from academia, industry, & healthcare.
🗓️ Deadline: 5 January 2026
👉 Submit: tinyurl.com/tw-eccb26
💡 ECCB will take place on 31 Aug–4 Sept in Geneva, gathering 1,000+ scientists from academia, industry, & healthcare.
November 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
SIB is organizing the next edition of #eccb2026 (Geneva, 31.08.2026 - 04.09.2026), and we are now inviting the community to submit their tutorial and workshop proposals.
👉 A great opportunity to share tools, methods and expertise with 1,000+ international participants. Deadline: 5 January 2026.
👉 A great opportunity to share tools, methods and expertise with 1,000+ international participants. Deadline: 5 January 2026.
💡 No AI in health without great data. In @BilanMagazine’s health supplement, Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social makes the case for Switzerland as a leader in trusted, high-quality health data — and how turning data into public value starts with strong infrastructures.
👇 Read more
👇 Read more
Reliable data for better care
Every medical revolution has been driven by a technological breakthrough: chemical synthesis paved the way for modern medicines, genetics for the first gene therapies. The next frontier will be determ...
www.sib.swiss
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
💡 No AI in health without great data. In @BilanMagazine’s health supplement, Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social makes the case for Switzerland as a leader in trusted, high-quality health data — and how turning data into public value starts with strong infrastructures.
👇 Read more
👇 Read more
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🎉 Meet the ECCB 2026 Scientific Committee! A diverse team of experts ensuring the scientific excellence of #ECCB2026, one of Europe’s leading events in computational biology.
👥 Each session is led by 1 area chair and 3 co-chairs
👉 Discover the full committee: eccb2026.org/committees
👥 Each session is led by 1 area chair and 3 co-chairs
👉 Discover the full committee: eccb2026.org/committees
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
🎉 Meet the ECCB 2026 Scientific Committee! A diverse team of experts ensuring the scientific excellence of #ECCB2026, one of Europe’s leading events in computational biology.
👥 Each session is led by 1 area chair and 3 co-chairs
👉 Discover the full committee: eccb2026.org/committees
👥 Each session is led by 1 area chair and 3 co-chairs
👉 Discover the full committee: eccb2026.org/committees
Join our interdisciplinary online workshop on the Galaxy platform! Nov 6, 2025 | 13:30–16:05 (CET)
Learn how to build reproducible data analysis workflows using Galaxy, a powerful, user-friendly platform. The session is intended for the Swiss rsrch community.
Register forms.gle/Y3vxW1u62FLM...
Learn how to build reproducible data analysis workflows using Galaxy, a powerful, user-friendly platform. The session is intended for the Swiss rsrch community.
Register forms.gle/Y3vxW1u62FLM...
GALAXY-CH Transdisciplinary Workflows Workshop Registration
Galaxy is a web-based and open-source platform (see e.g. https://usegalaxy.eu/). It shall enable researchers to access and use computational tools and high-performance compute infrastructures easily. ...
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October 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Join our interdisciplinary online workshop on the Galaxy platform! Nov 6, 2025 | 13:30–16:05 (CET)
Learn how to build reproducible data analysis workflows using Galaxy, a powerful, user-friendly platform. The session is intended for the Swiss rsrch community.
Register forms.gle/Y3vxW1u62FLM...
Learn how to build reproducible data analysis workflows using Galaxy, a powerful, user-friendly platform. The session is intended for the Swiss rsrch community.
Register forms.gle/Y3vxW1u62FLM...
🎥 Meet the 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Awards laureates:
⭐ David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award
⭐ Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social Early Career Award
⭐ scverse @scverse.bsky.social, Innovative Resource Award, accepted by Ilan Gold
Watch their award ceremony talks👇& congrats to all!
⭐ David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award
⭐ Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social Early Career Award
⭐ scverse @scverse.bsky.social, Innovative Resource Award, accepted by Ilan Gold
Watch their award ceremony talks👇& congrats to all!
Celebrating excellence: meet the 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Awards laureates
Two early career bioinformaticians have been recognized for their mathematical and AI models, along with a collaborative resource for single-cell data analyses. The three 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Award...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🎥 Meet the 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Awards laureates:
⭐ David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award
⭐ Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social Early Career Award
⭐ scverse @scverse.bsky.social, Innovative Resource Award, accepted by Ilan Gold
Watch their award ceremony talks👇& congrats to all!
⭐ David Meyer @meyerdh.bsky.social, PhD Paper Award
⭐ Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social Early Career Award
⭐ scverse @scverse.bsky.social, Innovative Resource Award, accepted by Ilan Gold
Watch their award ceremony talks👇& congrats to all!
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Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Our lab has published a couple of major papers in the past few months, which I would like to highlight in this thread! 🧵
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Job alert🚨📢! Join us as Director of the SIB Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, on a topic where global collaboration is particularly important, in a highly stimulating environment. This is a research infrastructure leadership position.
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics
The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...
apply.refline.ch
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Job alert🚨📢! Join us as Director of the SIB Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, on a topic where global collaboration is particularly important, in a highly stimulating environment. This is a research infrastructure leadership position.
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
Apply or spread the word!
apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/...
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📖 Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) spoke during “Disentis Roadmap: A Decadal Roadmap for Liberating Global Biodiversity Knowledge from Literature”, presenting “From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod organismal and ecological traits with machine learning”.
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
📖 Robert Waterhouse (@sib.swiss) spoke during “Disentis Roadmap: A Decadal Roadmap for Liberating Global Biodiversity Knowledge from Literature”, presenting “From literature to biodiversity data: mining arthropod organismal and ecological traits with machine learning”.
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Come find me at #LivingData2025 to chat about #genomics for #biodiversity & @ergabiodiv.bsky.social as well as species monitoring & modelling via @bmd-project.eu ... I'm based in Switzerland @sib.swiss
October 22, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Come find me at #LivingData2025 to chat about #genomics for #biodiversity & @ergabiodiv.bsky.social as well as species monitoring & modelling via @bmd-project.eu ... I'm based in Switzerland @sib.swiss
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Presenting FAIR actions from @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @biogeneurope.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 in Bogota
October 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Presenting FAIR actions from @ergabiodiv.bsky.social and @biogeneurope.bsky.social at #LivingData2025 in Bogota
🎓 SIB participates to the CAS in Data Stewardship. First laureates are here: a milestone for Swiss research & open science 🚀
The next edition takes place in 2026 — register by 12 Dec 2025 👉 www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/re...
The next edition takes place in 2026 — register by 12 Dec 2025 👉 www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/re...
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🎓 SIB participates to the CAS in Data Stewardship. First laureates are here: a milestone for Swiss research & open science 🚀
The next edition takes place in 2026 — register by 12 Dec 2025 👉 www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/re...
The next edition takes place in 2026 — register by 12 Dec 2025 👉 www.formation-continue-unil-epfl.ch/formation/re...
🤝 SPHN acts as a trusted partner between industry and hospitals. The first pilot project, in collaboration with Novartis, investigated risk factors for cardiovascular disease using anonymized data from hospitals in Aarau and Basel. Read more:
SPHN is a trusted partner between hospitals and private companies
A new collaboration framework allows private partners to transform sensitive Swiss health data into actionable insights while preserving patient privacy. The first pilot project examines risk factors ...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
🤝 SPHN acts as a trusted partner between industry and hospitals. The first pilot project, in collaboration with Novartis, investigated risk factors for cardiovascular disease using anonymized data from hospitals in Aarau and Basel. Read more:
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Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social @ethz.ch awarded prestigious #DoronPrize for pioneering work in computational evolution and public health. Big congrats, Tanja!
> u.ethz.ch/IxSY8
> u.ethz.ch/IxSY8
October 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social @ethz.ch awarded prestigious #DoronPrize for pioneering work in computational evolution and public health. Big congrats, Tanja!
> u.ethz.ch/IxSY8
> u.ethz.ch/IxSY8
🔎 Check out MetaGraph – a powerful search engine for DNA, RNA and protein sequences in large public repositories. This important milestone in computational genomics was published in Nature, by SIB scientists at ETH Zurich.
A fast, accurate ‘sequence search engine’
The MetaGraph tool can search through millions of published DNA, RNA and protein records in a matter of seconds. Developed by SIB scientists at ETH Zurich, the tool overcomes current limitations in an...
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October 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🔎 Check out MetaGraph – a powerful search engine for DNA, RNA and protein sequences in large public repositories. This important milestone in computational genomics was published in Nature, by SIB scientists at ETH Zurich.
The Pathogen Data Network (PDN), led by SIB & funded by NIH, enters year 2 to turn pathogen data into actionable insights for public health — from fair data sharing to wastewater early-warning, AI-driven analysis & training. Learn more 👇
Pathogen Data Network, year 2: actionable insights against epidemics
The Pathogen Data Network (PDN) enters its second year of enabling a worldwide ecosystem of linked data and tools that support infectious disease research and public health responses. This next phase ...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Pathogen Data Network (PDN), led by SIB & funded by NIH, enters year 2 to turn pathogen data into actionable insights for public health — from fair data sharing to wastewater early-warning, AI-driven analysis & training. Learn more 👇
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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
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...
#bc2basel
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...
#bc2basel
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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October 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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