340+ curious minds joined our workshop at Les Mystères de l'UNIL to explore proteins — keys to life and the brain 🧠🔬 Huge thanks to our visitors and amazing team for making it all happen!

#ScienceEducation #Outreach #Proteins

💡SIB's open data, knowledge, and tools accelerate discoveries for human and planetary health, such as new ways to:
💉improve mRNA vaccine delivery
🍅 monitor crop pathogens
💧 remove toxic chemicals from water
🦠 combat drug-resistant bacteria

See how in the #SIBProfile 2025: https://issuu.com/sibswissinstituteofbioinformatics/docs/sib_profile_2025_-_data_scientists_for_life/30

💡 How to make health data more accessible, secure & research-ready across national systems? Join this workshop with experts from 🇨🇭 & 🇩🇪 as they share insights from national initiatives & tackle the challenges of applying FAIR principles to real-world health data.

🎤 Presenters: Caroline Boenisch (Hochschule Stralsund, DE), Sabine Österle & Vasundra Touré (SIB), Dagmar Waltemath and Judith Wodke (Greifswald Uni Hospital, DE)

📆 Mo 8 Sept at #bc2basel

👉 Register: https://tinyurl.com/3y8ay2d6

📖 🇩🇪 Der deutsche Auszug des #SIBProfile 2025 ist erschienen! Entdecken Sie unserer neuesten Beiträge zu:

👉🏼 Beschleunigung biowissenschaftlicher Entdeckungen;
👉🏼 Unterstützung von Forschung und Innovation;
👉🏼 Maximierung von Investitionen in die Wissenschaft;
🇨🇭 als Schweizer Referenzorganisation für biologische und biomedizinische Daten.

Viel Spaß beim Lesen! https://issuu.com/sibswissinstituteofbioinformatics/docs/t_tigkeitsbericht_2025_auszug

The SIB course "Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee" is now available. I you want hands-on experience with Bgee check out our tutorial "The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals" at #BC2. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbJBK0jNmCGJc3_20tO0P9t86bnaojhgJ&si=PjBm2cOaHS-4yL3w https://bc2.ch/tutorials-workshops @SIB @marcrr @fbastian

🧬 On #WorldBiodiversityDay, discover how we help turn biodiversity data into conservation action through collaborations on Biodiversity Meets Data, @erga_biodiv,
@libroscope and others.

🌍 Learn more: www.sib.swiss/biodiversity

#BiodiversityDay #DataForNature #ConservationScience

📖 🇫🇷 L'extrait français du #SIBProfile 2025 est disponible ! Découvrez nos dernières contributions à :
👉🏼 l'accélération des découvertes en sciences de la vie ;
👉🏼 le soutien à la recherche et à l'innovation ;
👉🏼 l'optimisation des investissements scientifiques ;
🇨🇭 en tant qu'organisation suisse de référence pour les données biologiques et biomédicales.

Bonne lecture ! https://issuu.com/sibswissinstituteofbioinformatics/docs/rapport_d_activit_2025_extrait

📖 The #SIBProfile 2025 is out! Discover our latest contibutions to:

👉🏼 accelerating life science discoveries;
👉🏼 supporting research and innovation;
👉🏼 maximizing science investments;
🇨🇭 as the Swiss organization of reference for biological and biomedical data.

Plus in-depth features on how our data science experts:
🤖 contributed to the first Nobel-winning AI model
🦠 are ensuring efficient epidemic preparedness.

Enjoy the read! https://issuu.com/sibswissinstituteofbioinformatics/docs/sib_profile_2025_-_data_scientists_for_life

PDN Director Aitana Neves joined WHO's International Pathogen Surveillance Network (IPSN) Community of Practice on Genomics Data — joining Deputy Director Guy Cochrane in representing PDN at the global level.

👉 Read more: https://pathogendatanetwork.org/pdn-directors-contribute-expertise-to-who-pathogen-surveillance-network/

Applications for the CAS in personalized molecular #oncology jointly organized by @unibasel, CHUV and SIB are still open. See https://pmo.unibas.ch to learn more and apply!

Robert Gonzalez, an alumn, explains the value of the programme:

💡 Have an idea for a scientific resource, but not sure how to build it? Join this [BC]² tutorial that will guide you through the full lifecycle of developing tools, from identifying your audience & building MVPs, to creating user-friendly interfaces, secure APIs, & sustainable long-term strategies.

🔹 Taught by Qingyao Huang & Damian Szklarczyk (SIB)

📆 Mon 8 Sept at #bc2basel

👉 Register: https://tinyurl.com/3y8ay2d6

#bioinformatics #OpenScience #FAIRdata
@P_Palagi @valentynbez

🧠 Du 22 au 25 mai, retrouvez le SIB aux Mystères de l’UNIL !

On vous attend au Génopode avec notre atelier « Les protéines, clés de la vie et du cerveau » et le jeu mobile Genome Jumper.

📍 Plus d’infos : https://reg.mysteres.ch/activite/les-proteines-cles-de-la-vie-et-du-cerveau

#SciencePourTous #MystèresUNIL #Bioinformatics

🚀 Interested in building and managing microbial genomic databases? Join the hands-on tutorial on Loculus & learn how to:
• set up and customize Loculus for lab or global use
• streamline data storage, preprocessing & analysis
• build your own prototype instance during the session

🔹 Taught by @chaoranchen & Anna Parker, from @ethzurich.bsky.social

📆 8 Sept, 9:00 - 16:15, at #bc2basel

👉 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3y8ay2d6

@P_Palagi @valentynbez #BioinformaticsTraining

🎉 Welcome to Maria Boulos-Richter, our newest Board member at SIB! She joins as an external advisor and recently took part in her first meeting.

More on our governance: https://www.sib.swiss/about/governance-and-organization

#Bioinformatics

🤖 ExpasyGPT has launched! This powerful tool makes it faster and easier than ever to explore, retrieve and compile data and information to answer complex biological questions. Its specialized knowledge and advanced capabilities come from SIB’s expertise in generative AI and knowledge representation. The tool is integrated into Expasy, the Swiss bioinformatics portal.

Try the beta version of ExpasyGPT today 👉🏼 https://www.expasy.org/chat 👈🏼 and see more about its development: https://tinyurl.com/bde47ktw

📣 Registration is now open for the DataSHIELD Conference, 23-26 September 2025 in Lausanne, Switzerland!

Whether you are an experienced user or just discovering DataSHIELD, join us for four days of talks, workshops, and open discussions on privacy-preserving data analysis.

🗓️ Abstract submissions are open until 23 May, do not miss the chance to contribute!

Hosted by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics at UNIL.

👉 More info: https://www.sib.swiss/event-coordination/event/20250923_DataSHIELD2025

💡 Have you ever tried to combine symbolic & neural AI to tackle biomedical challenges? This tutorial will enable you to harness the power of biomedical knowledge graphs & LLM to support evidence-based discovery with concrete examples in antibiotic research & oncology.

🔹 Tutorial organized by Maxime Delmas and Andre Freitas, from the Idiap Research Institute, CH

📆 8 Sept, 13:00 - 16:15, at #bc2basel

👉 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3y8ay2d6

@P_Palagi @valentynbez #BioinformaticsTraining

Diverse non-human biodata will be mobilized and integrated to support research on biodiversity, food security and pathogens, under a strategy co-developed by SIB Group Director Robert Waterhouse & released by the European life sciences infrastructure @elixir_europe
The strategy guides 21 European countries to interconnect data from genetics, observation and omics studies, to enable research for One Health solutions to ecological & food production challenges. See more 👉 https://tinyurl.com/ptw5f352

At #CitSciHelvetia25 (June 5–6, UNIL), @rmwaterhouse will speak on co-creating biodiversity genomics projects with civil society. His talk highlights inclusive science through the #BGE initiative & local collaborations.

🔗 https://www.citscihelvetia.ch/conference-2025

#CitizenScience #Genomics #Biodiversity #OpenScience #Sustainability

🎤 It’s a pleasure to welcome @stephaniehicks from the Johns Hopkins Dept of Biostatistics at [BC]2. She will present in the session 'Computational methods for single-cell and spatial omics: from data to biological insights'.

🔹Session chaired by Marianna Rapsomaniki (Biomedical Data Science Center, CHUV/Université de Lausanne) and Julien Roux (University of Basel)

👉Interested in participating? Register now: https://tinyurl.com/3edr5hy6

📅 Deadline early bird fee: 30 June