SWISS BIOINFORMATICS

2023 has just started and already exciting prospects lie ahead, from events and awards (still time to apply!) to your next training courses…

Also in this edition, the latest updates from 2022 such as three SIB knowledge bases selected as Global Core Biodata Resources, SIB Members acting for biodiversity with AI and genomics, Big Data in health and more.

2022 was yet another enlightening year for data-driven discoveries across life sciences. Find out how SIB contributed to this by connecting data and people. Wishing you a great start to the year!

Three SIB knowledge bases recognized as critical for life science worldwide: a major step to ensure sustainability of the biodata resources Rhea, STRING and UniProt.
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The SwissBioData ecosystem gains further traction: the vision for biological Open Research Data in Switzerland onboarded new key partners: UNIL and EPFL.
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Interview with Christophe Dessimoz on CQFD: Learn more from our Executive Director on how SIB is moving towards recycling of scientific data to foster more scientific discoveries.
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Big Data in health: an interview with Felix Gutzwiller in NZZ am Sonntag.
Former President of SIB’s Foundation Council explains the importance of making life science data available for research and innovation in Switzerland.
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Calls for abstracts now open for the [BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference 2023! And last chance to submit a tutorial or workshop, by 15 January.
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“Data science in oncology”, first of a series of symposia on AI from IDIAP, 25 January, Martigny: an event sponsored by SIB, co-organized by Raphaëlle Luisier and featuring Olivier Michielin as a keynote.
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14^th Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences Conference (SWAT4HCLS), 13-16 February 2023, Basel, co-organized by Sabine Österle and Jerven Bolleman.
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LS² Annual Meeting, 16-17 February 2023, Zurich, including an SIB symposia by Daniele Silvestro on understanding biodiversity through genome sequencing and AI, chaired by Katja Bärenfaller.
Register before 14 January 2023.

Apply for the Bioinformatics Awards 2023. Entries are open until 31 January 2023 for the PhD Paper Award, Early Career Award and Innovative Resource Award.
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Supporting an urgent call to protect Madagascar’s biodiversity with AI. Daniele Silvestro and his team collaborated on this international study published in Science.
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Using data science to illuminate the causes of inflammation in arthritis. Scientists from SIB are participating in a large international project to explore the causes of severe arthritis.
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Europe’s drive to reverse biodiversity loss through genomics research. Robert Waterhouse is among the coordinators of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe consortium.
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Latest developments on our biodata resources. The STRING database now allows users to submit proteomes to predict interaction networks, and the SwissRegulon portal for regulatory genomics has a new design and online courses.  
 
Watch the latest in silico talks: how to add cell images from SwissBioPics to your resource and a method to accelerate biomarker discovery and translation to improve clinical diagnostics. Read more
 
New SPHN Webinar series on international research infrastructure initiatives for genomics, starting with the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA).

The SIB courses for the first semester of 2023, including training material, are online with a brand-new look and feel. Topics include data analysis (NGS, RNA-seq, long-reads, single-cell, multiomics), data management, machine learning, statistics, programming, and more will be added throughout the year. Save the dates of your favourite courses and receive a notification via the mailing list when registrations open. Also, check out our training brochure for companies!

Step in the shoes of scientists to solve ancient Greek mysteries, or find out why fighting cancer means fighting evolution: these and other stories of evolution on lightofevolution.org.
 
Latest Protein spotlight: Delayed. Better safe than sorry. Leaving - whatever or whoever it may be - is always better when executed with some forethought and organisation. Cells sometimes behave similarly... 
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