Frequently Asked Questions

SIB is not a higher education institution but a federation of bioinformatics research and service groups and cannot admit PhD students under its direct supervision. To start a PhD in bioinformatics, you can contact one of the SIB Group Leaders affiliated with a Swiss University in one of the field of your interest from this list.
To facilitate your inquiry, you can use our "Find an expert/expertise" search tool on our homepage and use the different criteria fields to get targeted results.

To join the SIB PhD Training Network, you must be registered in a Swiss University and be supervised by (or collaborate with) an SIB Group Leader. You can find SIB Group Leaders working in the bioinformatics field of your interest from this list.
To facilitate your inquiry, you can use our "Find an expert/expertise" search tool on our homepage and use the different criteria fields to get targeted results.

Unless specified otherwise, our courses are opened to everyone. We recommend you to check the course's description for details on applicable fees.

All our vacancies are listed here. This list includes positions at SIB as well as in our groups at our partner institutions. Please follow the instructions from the job description to apply, no other form of application will be considered.
We regularly have new job openings: subscribe to our Job Mailing list if you wish to receive such notifications.

If you are interested in working in one of our Groups affiliated with a Swiss University, we suggest you send your application directly to those matching your interest from this list. To facilitate your inquiry, you can use our "Find an expert/expertise" search tool on our homepage and use the different criteria fields to get targeted results. Indeed, as a non-profit organization federating bioinformatics and with about 80 Groups, we are unable to target/redirect spontaneous applications.
If you are interested in working at SIB, please use the list here to check our vacancies, as no other form of application will be considered.
We regularly have new job openings: subscribe to our Job Mailing list if you wish to receive such notifications.

If you are interested in doing an internship in one of our Groups affiliated with a Swiss University, we suggest you send your application directly to those matching your interest from this list. To facilitate your inquiry, you can use our "Find an expert/expertise" search tool on our homepage and use the different criteria fields to get targeted results. As a non-profit organization federating bioinformatics and with about 80 Groups, we are unable to target/redirect all spontaneous applications we receive.

Postdoc positions are regularly advertised in our Groups affiliated with a Swiss University. Please use this list to check our vacancies, subscribe to our Job Mailing list to stay tuned or directly contact one of the SIB Group Leaders affiliated with a Swiss University in one of the field of your interest from this list. To facilitate your inquiry, you can use our "Find an expert/expertise" search tool on our homepage and use the different criteria fields to get targeted results.

You can find all the 150 high-quality databases and software tools developed by SIB Groups for the global life science community on ExPASy, SIB's bioinformatics resource portal. Among them, several core resources - the SIB Resources benefit from the specific support of the Institute.

Please contact the resource's support team indicated on the resource's webpage directly. You can find a list of all resources with a direct link to their website here. If you need to contact a resource supported by the ExPASy Team and cannot reach the resource directly, you can reach out to the ExPASy support.

Please visit this page where you will find all the contact information.

Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter "Swiss Bioinformatics" by putting your email in the Stay tuned box from our website's footer and you will be automatically registered to the mailing-list.

Please fill in the following form to sign up to receive the SIB Profile. You can choose to receive a paperback version (for Swiss-residents only) or an electronic version.

Bioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the understanding and effective use of biological and biomedical data. It is the discipline that stores, analyses and interprets the Big Data generated by life-science experiments, or collected in a clinical context. This multidisciplinary field is driven by experts from a variety of backgrounds: biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, statisticians and physicists. (more).

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an internationally recognized non-profit organization, dedicated to biological and biomedical data science. Its data scientists are passionate about creating knowledge and solving complex questions in many fields, from biodiversity and evolution to medicine. They provide essential databases and software platforms as well as bioinformatics expertise and services to academic, clinical, and industry groups. SIB federates the Swiss bioinformatics community of some 800 scientists, encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing.
The institute contributes to keeping Switzerland at the forefront of innovation by fostering progress in biological research and enhancing health.
Data scientists for life (more)

If you know the name of the person you would like to get in touch with, you can use our directory, which contains all our members' contact information. Alternatively, you can find the name and contact of all SIB Group Leaders (and of their team members) working in the bioinformatics field of your interest from this list. To facilitate your inquiry, you can also use our "Find an expert/expertise" search tool on our homepage and use the different criteria fields to get targeted results.

If you know the name of the person you are trying to reach, you can use our directory to find the person's contact information, otherwise please visit our Organization page where you will find all the divisions of SIB Management with people's roles and contact information.

Our headquarters are located on the University of Lausanne's grounds, Switzerland (more).