Christophe Dessimoz

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Director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (@SIB) and Professor at the University of Lausanne.
SIB websitehttps://sib.swiss
Lab websitehttps://lab.dessimoz.org

Interested in attending the leading European event in computational biology? Don't miss the early bird registration period for #ECCB2026, until 31 March!

πŸ’‘ From 31 Aug to 4 Sept 2026, 1,000+ experts in comp bio, bioinformatics, & data-driven life sciences will gather in #Geneva to explore the latest advancements in fields such as genomics, transcriptomics, structural bioinformatics, systems biology, medicine, & environmental bioinformatics.

πŸ‘‰ Register: https://eccb2026.org/registration-information

🌿 Excited to announce the
Biodiversity Bioinformatics Summer School 2026!
πŸ—“οΈ 21–26 June 2026
πŸ“ Siegen, Germany
🀝 Jointly organised by @deNBI and @SIB
πŸ”¬ Project-based, hands-on summer school:
β€’ Biodiversity across scales (eDNA to ecosystems)
β€’ Pangenomes & genetic diversity
β€’ Genomic Essential Biodiversity Variables
β€’ Comparative genomics insights
πŸ‘©β€πŸ’» Group work, expert trainers, lectures & networking
πŸ“ For more jnformation see: https://www.denbi.de/de-nbi-events/2029-biodiversity-bioinformatics-summer-school-2026
#Biodiversity #Bioinformatics

1/ 🦟 Big news: #Pathoplexus now supports Dengue virus & Yellow Fever virus - two arboviruses responsible for over 400 million infections and up to 94,000 deaths per year.
Here's what’s new in our latest update πŸ‘‡πŸ»

Read the full update: https://pathoplexus.org/news/2026-03-12-expanding-pathoplexus-arbos πŸ“°

Learning Paths | SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Cellosaurus update
The Cellosaurus team is continuing its activities. With the full support of the SIB direction, a reorganization of the team is currently underway. Annotation of new cell lines has resumed, including RRID assignments and will be published in upcoming releases. We thank the community for its patience and continued support

RE: https://mas.to/@kakape/115853371077572858

This needs boosting.
How we share data now, determines how prepared we are for tomorrow. That includes having access to *all* who need it (inccitizen scientists like Ryan Hisner) & being able to use it in dashboards & apps.
Having one place control it all - is dangerous.

#GISAID ruining science. This is a great shame.

covSPECTRUM, an invaluable tool, will continue to work with open data from the INSDC system (ENA, NCBI, DDBJ).

But historical data and data from many countries only feeding into GISAID will be unavailable.

Our raxtax tool for taxonomic classification is published: it is 2.7–100 times faster than competing tools but equally accurate - raxtax has increasing speedups with growing query and reference sequence numbers compared to existing tools: https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article/41/12/btaf620/8328298
We are excited to announce a new training course on Bgee 🧬
Course: Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee
Date: Friday 29 May 2026
Taught by: the Bgee team (FrΓ©dΓ©ric Bastian and Marc Robinson-Rechavi)
Learn more: https://www.sib.swiss/training/course/20260529_BGEEL
#bioinformatics #training #RNAseq #singlecell #GeneExpression #bgee
@SIB @marcrr @fbastian
Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee

Attendance is free of charge; however, registration is mandatory. Overview Bgee is a curated database of gene expression in animals, including model s

#ecology job alert πŸŽ“

two group leader positions at WSL in Switzerland πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1813/pub/2/index.html (conservation biology)

https://apply.refline.ch/273855/1817/pub/2/index.html (soil community ecology)

Switzerland is one of the best places in the world, both for living and for doing research!

Group Leader Conservation Biology 80% (f/m/d)

The research unit Biodiversity and Conservation Biology investigates the diversity of life in its various forms, from genetic diversity to the diversity of species and ecosystems and their interactions, and provides the basis for evidence-based nature conservation. In order of succession planning to fill in by 1st August 2026, or by agreement we offer the position of a

Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL