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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.
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
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🎓 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...
October 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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...
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"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
September 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
We now turn to the closing words from @dessimoz.bsky.social, SIB’s Executive Director.
September 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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
September 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Congratulations to all #posterprize winners!
#bc2basel
September 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Our [BC]²INGO GAME was won by Nosihle Msomi. Congratulations! #bc2basel
September 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🧬 Turning science into startups! A special session on launching #bioinformatics startups with insights on IP, legal, funding + case studies ( @bigomics.bsky.social, TrueYouOmics) from experts Swiss IP, Lenz&Staehelin, Innosuisse. Session chairs: @abxka.bsky.social, E. Özkırımlı, V. Zoete. #bc2basel
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We love putting together [BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference #bc2basel for you every two years.
And we do so much more! Come by our booth to find out about our vision for life-science data and all the services we offer academia and industry. #bc2basel
September 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
We now have plenary highlights of the latest research submitted in abstracts: from venom evolution & spatial lipidomics to deep learning, glioma cell states & rapid diagnostics for rare disease. Chaired by Katja Bärenfaller and @dgfeller.bsky.social.
#bc2basel #Bioinformatics #Omics #MachineLearning
September 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our invited speakers for the parallel session on ‘Computational methods for single-cell and spatial omics’ is @stephaniehicks.bsky.social from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA. Session is chaired by @marianna-raps.bsky.social and @julienroux.bsky.social. #bc2basel‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
September 10, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In ‘Integrative Bioinformatics for Evolutionary and Environmental Processes’ our invited speaker is Eline Lorenzen from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This session is chaired by Anne-Florence Bitbol and Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas. #bc2basel
September 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Our second keynote address is given by Peer Bork (EMBL Heildelberg, Germany) under the title “Microbiome analysis for human and planetary health”. #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Time for the posters to be presented: enter the gallery and have a look! There's 🍰🧁🎂 #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Our invited speaker for ‘Clinical data science: advancements in diagnostics and patient care’ is Päivi Östling from the @ki.se and @scilifelab.se. The session is chaired by Laura Azzimonti and Valérie Barbié. #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
For ‘Protein design and modeling molecular assemblies: breakthroughs and applications in computational structural biology’ our invited speaker is @laineelodie.bsky.social from Sorbonne University, France. Session chaired by @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social and @ninjani.bsky.social.
#bc2basel‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
September 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The SIB Remarkable Outputs 2024 are out! Explore 8 standout bioinformatics tools & discoveries from the SIB community: AI for enzymes, T-cell models & more. Congratulations to all teams!

Discover them all: sib.swiss/remarkable-o...

#Bioinformatics #SIBRemarkableOutputs2024 #OpenScience #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
💫 The 2025 SIB Innovative Resource Award goes to @scverse.bsky.social 💫
The jury is impressed by the focus of these omics tools on interoperability, usability, and communication. The project’s solid governance and emphasis on open science principles are particularly commendable
#SIBawards #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
With his impactful research in machine learning, metabolomics, single cell genomics, his record in teaching and mentoring students and his contributions to the community, Michael Skinnider @skinnider.bsky.social is the laureate of the 2025 SIB Early Career Award 💫 ! #SIBawards #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
💫 The PhD Paper Award goes to @meyerdh.bsky.social from Uni-Köln 💫

“David Meyer’s paper ‘Aging clocks based on accumulating stochastic variation’ presents a completely novel concept and a fresh way to address the problem”.

#Bioinformatics #SIBawards #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
In the session ‘Bioinformatics for cancer research’, our invited speaker Itay Tirosh (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) presents “Dissecting intra-tumor heterogeneity by single cell and spatial transcriptomics” #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The 2nd day of this year’s [BC]² conference begins with parallel sessions on two health applications for bioinformatics: cancer research and tackling infectious disease challenges from hosts to pathogen #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
We ended the first day with an address from Dr. Lukas Engelberger, Head of the Department of Health of Kanton Basel-Stadt who welcomed us in Basel; and with an apero and dinner. #bc2basel
September 9, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Our first keynote address is from @serenanikzainal.bsky.social (University of Cambridge, UK), on advances in understanding mutational processes in whole genome sequencing data and implications for cancer clinical trials. #bc2basel #genomics #cancer
September 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM