ILMAC, a leading Swiss fair for pharmaceuticals, chemicals and biotechnology is having its first event in Western Switzerland in October. SIB will be present to showcase its activities, with a special focus on its training offer for the private sector. Our booth will be hosted by BioAlps – the life science cluster of Western Switzerland – together with other institutional co-exhibitors and the event is expected to attract ca. 300 visitors a day.
Last week, the 13th edition of the Basel Computational Biology Conference, co-organized by SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and the Biozentrum University of Basel, gathered over 500 participants from all over the globe. Among them, world-leading researchers as well as promising junior scientists – who returned home with prestigious awards.
Light gave life a chance to be. Without it, our planet would not be inhabited by so many living beings of all shapes and sizes. Over time, animals, plants and all sorts of microorganisms have emerged and evolved using this source of photons in different ways. Like hosts of other creatures, we use light for vision so that we can discern individual entities that make up our environment, as well as movement within it.
V-Pipe – an emerging tool to help virus genomics investigations –, and SwissLipids – a comprehensive knowledgebase of lipids – recently joined the ranks of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics resources. They are filling important gaps in the current landscape of biological resources.
Manual expert curation of the leading protein information resource is coping well with the ever-growing biomedical literature, a recent study shows.
Some viruses could be much older than previously thought, suggests a new study led by SIB scientists Moritz Saxenhofer and Gerald Heckel, from the University of Bern.
