SWISS BIOINFORMATICS

SIB NEWSLETTER - APRIL 2023

IN THIS ISSUE

SIB is actively engaged in making Open Research Data (ORD) a reality, and several collaborative projects are kicking off in this context. Among them, a national curriculum for Data Stewards – an emerging profession called to play a pivotal role in supporting researchers reach ORD goals.

Find out more on this below as well as the release of the latest SIB Remarkable Outputs, the registration for the [BC]² conference 2023, our single-cell data expertise, biodiversity research on islands and more.

TAKING THE PULSE OF SIB

Towards a national curriculum for life science Data Stewards. SIB has joined forces with the University of Lausanne to foster training for Data Stewards.
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SIB catalyzes Open Research Data (ORD) practices in Switzerland. Several ORD projects led by or involving SIB Members have been awarded funding by swissuniversities.
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Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2022, the shortlist of achievements over the past year by SIB Members, including publications, software tools and databases that are particularly deserving attention.
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Gathering to foster knowledge exchanges and collaborations. New focus groups are bringing our members together: find out what they aim to achieve, from single-cell omics to epigenomics.
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES

[BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference, 11-13 September 2023. Have a look at the agenda which includes the line-up of speakers and planned tutorials & workshops.
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16^th International Biocuration Conference, 24-26 April 2023, Padua, Italy, with several members co-organizing and chairing sessions including Deepak R. Unni, Frédérique Lisacek and Philippe Le Mercier.
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31^st conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)/ECCB, 23-27 July 2023, Lyon with Patricia Palagi and Torsten Schwede part of the tutorial and steering committees respectively.
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SCIENCE NEWS

A new study unravels why partners often share similar traits. Find out what advanced statistics developed at SIB and applied to large public datasets reveal.
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Extreme dwarfs and giants more likely to go extinct. This, and the finding of higher extinction rates in insular mammals after arrival of modern humans.
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Single-cell data science enables recent breakthroughs in cancer research. Find out how SIB scientists are using cutting-edge expertise to support oncology research.
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Using data science to illuminate the causes of inflammation in arthritis. SIB is coordinating the data management in this international initiative which launched this year.
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RESOURCES FOR LIFE SCIENTISTS

Watch the latest in silico talks: A tool to widen access to resources of glycobiology and a database using machine learning to decipher peptides for T cell recognition.
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PERFECT YOUR BIOINFORMATICS SKILLS

Keep up to date with the latest SIB courses. Upcoming topics include data analysis, data management for reproducible research, machine learning, applied statistics, programming. Subscribe to the mailing list and check out our brochure for training offered for companies!

Search and compare bioinformatics training materials with Glittr. This new website from the Training group allows you to find materials on GitHub or GitLab.
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BIOINFORMATICS FOR ALL

SIB Members featured in Le Temps. Two articles in the newspaper Le Temps featured Amos Bairoch on the SIB Resource Cellosaurus and Phillipe Le Mercier on the risks of emergence of COVID-19 variants in China.

Discover stories on the evolution of species now in German. lightofevolution.org, the website for the public to foster interest in evolution, is now available in German.
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Latest Protein spotlight: On the end of a leash. It has been a long time since I saw a plug hanging from the side of a bathtub. Remember the small triangular ring the chain dangled from…
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