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  • From Open Data to Open Knowledge: a video!

    Discover, in a short video clip, SIB’s vision on Open Data, one of the many facets of Open Science – the movement to make scientific research and its dissemination accessible to all levels of the society.

  • January Virtual Seminar by Claire Clivaz: an interview

    Digging deeper into the human experienceIn the recent years, bioinformatics has crept into the arts and humanities. Software tools initially developed for the life sciences are being adapted to interpret ancient manuscripts, for instance, or to...

  • SIB takes part in a cloud system to facilitate transcontinental human data exchange

    The CINECA project, led by EMBL-EBI, aims to unite more than a million human data sets from across Africa, Canada and Europe. SIB is among the initiative’s 18 partner organisations...

  • Robert Waterhouse's group

    What we do The group’s research is focused on elucidating interactions between gene evolution and gene function through developing computational approaches to interrogate evolutionary and functional genomics data. We are developing quantifications...

  • Fabio Rinaldi's group

    What we do We specialize in Information Extraction from biomedically relevant textual sources, such as the scientific literature, clinical records, or social media. We focus in particular on the extraction of domain-specific entities (such as...

  • Michael Baudis's group

    What we do The Computational Oncogenomics Group works on the computational analysis of structural genome variations in cancer, centred around our arrayMap and Progenetix resources of curated molecular-cytogenetic and sequencing data.Specific...

  • STRING-database overall best-performing network resource according to a Californian study

    With over 20,000 protein-coding genes in humans, discovering those that are linked to a given disease amounts to finding a molecular needle in a haystack.

  • SIB’s Swiss-Prot Group co-director Alan Bridge on the future of biocuration

    As announced in May, Alan Bridge is taking up the co-director role of SIB’s Swiss-Prot Group, thus succeeding to Lydie Bougueleret. He gives us his vision of the future for a unique profession, biocuration, and for the Swiss-Prot Group, one of its...

  • SourceData is making data discoverable

    A push for a paradigm change in scientific publication. Bringing to the surface information buried in the figures of scientific papers: this is the purpose of SourceData, an open-access platform developed by EMBO in collaboration with the SIB Swiss...