SWISS BIOINFORMATICS

Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2021, to provide the global bioinformatics community with a shortlist of achievements of the year by SIB Scientists that are particularly deserving attention.
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The national secure computing network, BioMedIT, to boost personalized health research is up and running: a major step forward in empowering personalized health research in Switzerland.
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The SIB Board of Directors welcomes Group Leader Robert Waterhouse, Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne, as a new member.
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SIB is a proud supporter of the 'Stick to science' initiative for open and barrier-free collaboration among Europe’s research and innovation (R&I) actors.

Join SIB's parallel sessions as part of the Personalized Health Technologies Conference, 7 June, ETH Zurich, on maximizing the use of clinical data available for research and clinical diagnostic, from across institutions and countries.
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Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology conference – 26-30 June 2022, Château d'Oex, focusing on ‘Climate changes and their impacts on evolution’.
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International Genome Graph Symposium 2022 - 3-7 July, Ascona, focusing on the advances of genome graphs and their applications in the biomedical field.
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Biodiversity: using artificial intelligence to better identify areas to protect and save more species.
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in silico talk: the quest for small-molecule cancer immunotherapeutics, and the bioinformatics and experimental tools used for their design, validation and classification.
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Help improve STRING, a key bioinformatics SIB Resource for protein-protein interaction used by thousands of scientists every day around the globe, by taking a short survey.

How genomic deletions and duplications affect our health, and how they influence on our physical traits and predisposition to diseases.
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How asexual reproduction affects the evolution of genomes, and why species reproducing in this way are generally more vulnerable in the wild.
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Publicly available training materials hosted on GitHub
Do you want to learn bioinformatics, or are you looking for bioinformatics training materials? Explore the SIB Training collection of publicly available courses hosted on GitHub. If your favourite course is not there, let the Training team know. All contributions are welcome!
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Check out our latest courses
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!

Latest Protein spotlight: Luck of the draw. When something gets uncomfortably close to you - in whichever way it may be - you will seek to fend it off. By walking away, choosing to ignore it, using physical force or, if it is a person…
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RTS podcast: are viruses useful? Listen to Philippe Le Mercier, virologist and resource manager at Swiss-Prot, discuss his passion for viruses with Huma Khamis, journalist at CQFD.
Podcast in French