SWISS BIOINFORMATICS

Switzerland establishes a national infrastructure to track COVID-19 and its variants
The platform and joint efforts contribute to put Switzerland among the largest contributors of SARS-CoV-2 sequences worldwide.
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Taking 'open science' for research to the next level with SwissBioData
A national infrastructure proposal to give researchers access to an open space of data, workflows, software...
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Submit and register to the LS² Annual Meeting "Life Sciences in the 2020s: quantitation, integration and prediction", 17-18 February
Featuring an SIB symposium "Handling large-scale Complex Datasets: Integration, Modeling, Prediction" with Julia Vogt (ETH Zurich) & Damian Roqueiro (ETH Zurich).
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Bioinformatics Awards 2021: a series of talks to discover the laureates’ work
From predicting gene function to anticipating circulatory failure and enabling reproducible genomic computation…
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Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) featured in Cell Genomics
A sum-up of latest advances from the worldwide initiative to accelerate biomedical advances by enabling the responsible sharing of clinical and genomic data.
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Scaling up biodiversity genomics across Europe
As members of the Swiss node of the European Reference Genome Atlas initiative, several SIB Groups sequence reference genomes for selected species across Europe.
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BY-COVID: A new EU/ELIXIR project for pandemic preparedness
A new project to tackle the data challenges that can hinder effective pandemic response. 
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How to make biomedical research data able to interact?
Swiss specialists in data semantics define the national strategy for the interoperability of research data.
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A case for convergent evolution of circular RNAs
Franziska Gruhl and colleagues at University of Lausanne investigate the evolution of circRNAs conserved across five mammalian species...
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Early 2022 programme and new training brochure for companies
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 new training brochure for companies!

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at SIB: screening of "Picture a scientist" and follow-up discussion
The first event organized by the Diversity working group aimed to raise awareness about EDI-related issues at the workplace, in science and beyond, through a sponsored screening of the movie Picture a Scientist, followed-up by an informal virtual discussion to exchange views, experiences and ideas.
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Gender bias in academia, online roundtable by the University of Lausanne - 9 December, 17:00-19:00
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Sex and gender bias in artificial intelligence and health: a webinar series and a summary report, by Bioinfo4Women
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What happens to research data that are not used? Discover the documentary ‘Forgotten data: the leftovers of science’ featured SIB's Group Leader Mihaela Zavolan.
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Latest Protein spotlight: On guard. Picture a sentry watching out for the enemy from a castle turret. Suddenly, in a growing cloud of dust, a cavalcade of horsemen emerges, moving towards him fast...
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