SWISS BIOINFORMATICS

SIB NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 2022

IN THIS ISSUE

SIB is bidding farewell to Christine Durinx, its Joint Executive Director and pioneer in biodata infrastructure, who will leave the institute at the end of March to take on a new position in Belgium. Christophe Dessimoz, SIB Group Leader at the University of Lausanne and a professor at University College London, will be succeeding her, and we are looking forward to sharing his vision for Swiss bioinformatics with you in the next edition!

Also in this edition: SIB’s role in international efforts for COVID-19 data sharing; dates for [BC]² 2023; latest software and resources to join the SIB portfolio; a website to popularize evolutionary biology, and more.

TAKING THE PULSE OF SIB

Christophe Dessimoz is appointed Joint Executive Director, succeeding Christine Durinx, from 1 April 2022.
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SIB is co-steering European efforts to foster open sharing of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data. Through SIB, Switzerland will thus be sharing its experience setting up and using a national viral genomics platform.
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Discover the open science software and databases in SIB’s infrastructure portfolio for the life sciences, allowing single-cell molecular insights, vaccine development and real-time pathogen tracking.
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RESEARCH & RESOURCES

Mark your calendar for the next [BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference 2023, organized by SIB, taking place on 12-14 September 2023.
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Venom factories: a surprising molecular convergence, from wasps to snakes. SIB scientists have conducted the first comparative analysis of gene expression profiles of venom glands across different animals.
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One entry-point to query them all: the SPHN Federated Query System is online. For the first time, biomedical researchers can assess the availability of consented datasets over all five university hospitals in Switzerland at once.
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Submit your abstract and register to the Personalized Health Technologies Conference 2022, 7 & 8 June 2022, ETH Zurich. The event is sponsored by SIB.
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PERFECT YOUR BIOINFORMATICS SKILLS

Discover the 2022 training programme
Data analysis, reproducible research, machine learning, statistics… Are you starting a project on a topic outside your area of expertise? Do you or your colleagues need a refresher course? Do you need to bring a new hire up to speed? Subscribe to the upcoming courses mailing list and watch our online courses. Also, check out our training brochure for companies!

BIOINFORMATICS FOR ALL

Launch of lightofevolution.org, to understand through interactive stories what we, humans, have in common with bananas, what the evolution of coronaviruses tells us about the pandemic, and more.
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Latest Protein spotlight: Constructive futility. Idleness is not encouraged in our parts of the world. With our twisted notion of Carpe diem, the days are filled with…
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