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: https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20260529_BGEEL
#bioinformatics #training #RNAseq #singlecell #GeneExpression #bgee
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📢 Highlight talk and poster submissions are now open!
We invite abstracts showcasing significant & topical advances in computational biology and bioinformatics, based on work published from 1 March 2025 onwards or accepted for publication as a preprint.
🎤 Accepted contributions will be presented in person: 15-minute presentations + 3-minute discussion. Posters are welcome across all areas of the field.
🗓️ Deadline: 20 April 2026
👉 More info & submission: https://eccb2026.org/call-highlight-talk-poster
@fabianegli Great topic! While it’s outside the five core scientific areas, it fits well under the Tutorials & Workshops call. ECCB2026 workshops are interactive and can address methodological or community themes supporting computational biology. A session on sustainable open-source practices and lowering contribution barriers would be very relevant. Just frame it with an interactive format.
We encourage you to submit!
Details: https://eccb2026.org/call-tutorials-workshops
📢 ECCB2026 - Call for proceedings now open !
The ECCB 2026 Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of full manuscripts presenting original and unpublished work in computational biology.
Accepted papers will be:
Presented as 15-minute talks at ECCB 2026 (Geneva, 31 Aug–4 Sep)
Published in an open-access supplementary issue of the Bioinformatics journal (OUP)
🗓 Deadline: 5 March 2026, 1 p.m. CET
🔗 https://eccb2026.org/call-proceedings
#ECCB2026 #Bioinformatics #ComputationalBiology #CallForPapers
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 honour his legacy by continuing to build the future of bioinformatics. https://www.sib.swiss/news/amos-bairoch-swiss-pioneer-of-bioinformatics-passes-away
Josefina Lascano Maillard, together with José Basílio and Clemens Spielvogel, co-authored a chapter on gene regulatory networks in vascular disease, highlighting how NGS and computational methods drive new insights. This collab advances research on atherosclerosis. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/edited-volume/abs/pii/B9780443330643000177?via%3Dihub
MetaNetX @metanetx v4.5 is out! 🚀
Expanded metabolite/reaction coverage, improved normalization (InChI/SMILES), better cross-database mapping, and richer RDF/SPARQL access for AI & multi-omics. A key resource for systems biology.
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaf1286
🗣️ “Several of the past winners of this award and their work have been very inspiring and important to me”, said Michael Skinnider, SIB Bioinformatics Early Career Award 2025 laureate.
Read full interview
https://www.sib.swiss/news/several-of-the-past-winners-of-this-award-and-their-work-have-been-very-inspiring
“This public recognition is an important step towards my goal of setting up my own lab” says David Meyer, PhD Paper Award Laureate 2025 in his interview https://www.sib.swiss/news/this-public-recognition-is-an-important-step-towards-my-goal-of-setting-up-my-own-lab
📣 Want to share your expertise, your tools, methods & insights in a tutorial or workshop at the European Computational Biology Conference (#ECCB2026)? Then submit by 📅 5 January 2026.
👉 Submit: https://tinyurl.com/2hhe9pmk
💡 ECCB 2026 will take place on 31 August–4 Sept in Geneva, CH. The conference will bring together 1,000+ international scientists from academia, industry, and healthcare to explore the latest advances at the intersection of health, AI, and biodiversity.
💡 No AI in health without great data. In Bilan Magazine’s health supplement, @dessimoz 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.
👉 More: https://www.sib.swiss/news/reliable-data-for-better-care
🎥 Meet the 2025 SIB Bioinformatics Awards laureates:
⭐ David Meyer, PhD Paper Award
⭐ Michael Skinnider, Early Career Award
⭐ @scverse Innovative Resource Award, accepted by Ilan Gold
Watch their award ceremony talks 👇 & congrats to all!
https://www.sib.swiss/news/celebrating-excellence-meet-the-2025-sib-bioinformatics-awards-laureates
🤝 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: https://www.sib.swiss/news/sphn-is-a-trusted-partner-between-hospitals-and-private-companies
🔎 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. https://www.sib.swiss/news/a-fast-accurate-sequence-search-engine
🌍 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: https://www.sib.swiss/news/pathogen-data-network-year-2-actionable-insights-against-epidemics
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 👉 https://tinyurl.com/NIAIDBRCWebinar
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. 🔓📊
Such great insights and memories from the 2025 [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference – check out, or revisit, the highlights 👉 https://tinyurl.com/5v6wh5pd
Thanks again to our amazing scientific committee – and see you at the next edition in 2027!
RNA’s mysteries meet AI 🧬🤖
Join us at the @AICenter on 8 October, 2pm for a mini-symposium exploring how AI is decoding one of life’s most fascinating molecules.
👉 Register here: https://www.sib.swiss/conferences/ai-for-rna-biology-mini-symposium
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: https://sib.swiss
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