Tag: software engineering

Islands are biodiversity hotspots and home to animal species with unique features, including dwarfs that evolved to very small sizes compared to their mainland relatives, and giants. An international study now shows that those species have a higher...

SIB takes part in the international project ENDOTARGET launched this month.

If you are interested in making the most of your scientific website, database or software, learning how to convert user feedback into new developments is key. And putting the user at the centre was a key aspect of the redesign of Expasy, our...

Exploring the 160 databases and software tools developed by SIB Groups has never been this easy. Created in 1993, Expasy, the SIB bioinformatics resource portal, is now available as a new release, after a major overhaul.

In this in silico talk, SIB’s Ugnė Stolz from Tanja Stadler’s Group at ETH Zurich introduces CoalRe, a framework enabling to take into account reassortment when inferring virus evolution and infection pathways.

Focus on the group's mission The Vital-IT team provides bioinformatics collaborative support to life science projects in Switzerland and abroad through collaborations with academic and industry partners. Thanks to its diverse expertise in...

Data management We organize, clean & control the quality of your datasets for subsequent analysis. In addition, we can process, transform and align your datasets to existing standards and make them available as a database. We can propose...

What we do The responsibility of the proteome informatics at the FGCZ is to evaluate and provide services to the mass spectrometry scientists at our center, ranging from sample annotation, data archiving, processing, analysis, visualization up to...

What we do Our group’s overall research focuses in the emerging field of artificial intelligence applied to health. Health data is generated from a variety of sources and comprises molecular profiles, medical records, digital biomarkers and social...

Researchers from UNIL, UNIGE and SIB provide the researchers’ community with an extremely powerful computer tool to facilitate the interpretation of the genome’s Big Data

What we do Our group is interested in the regulatory machinery controlling gene expression. We investigate it by analyzing population scale multi-omics data sets (e.g. genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics) in which we use genetic...

SIB Group Leader Niko Beerenwinkel at ETH Zurich introduces V-Pipe, a new end-to-end pipeline tool to mine viral genomes and improve clinical diagnostics.

In 2019, the SIB Bioinformatics Awards will be presented for the 10th time, providing a great occasion to reach out to past laureates and ask them where they are now in their career. In this interview, we met with Shameer Khader, recipient of...

In 2019, the SIB Bioinformatics Awards will be presented for the 10th time, providing a great occasion to reach out to past laureates and ask them where they are now in their career. In this interview, we met with Inanc Birol, recipient of the...

A new method to analyze genetic data, developed by two SIB Groups, shows that the relationships between living species, from bacteria to plants and animals, are different from previous estimates. Created by the group led by Nicolas Salamin and the...

Following the success of previous editions, children aged 9 to 14 are once again invited to take part in SIB's bioinformatics hackathon in Geneva on Saturday 23 March.

On 16 December 2018, the count of total jobs run on the SIB Resource SwissDrugDesign passed the symbolic one-million mark.

Fifteen years after its creation, Vital-IT – one of SIB’s largest groups and Switzerland’s earliest bioinformatics core facility – continues to evolve. Find out how the Group is consolidating its position as the reference in bioinformatics for...

Take a closer look at an SIB Resource dedicated to making protein modelling accessible to life scientists from around the world: on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, we put a few questions to the SWISS-MODEL development team...

What does it imply to increase the impact of a bioinformatics resource when its scientific relevance is already established and recognized? Since February 2018, a dedicated SIB team has been working hand-in-hand with resource developers to create a...

IPortal, taming biomedical dataData, like money, seems to be driving the world these days. Data-producing technology has evolved so fast in the past few decades that it has created – and continues to do so – huge amounts of data that, like a very...

The start of a new academic year is always a good time to engage in strategic thinking. What are the major themes for SIB's development? Where will SIB be adding value in the years to come? Following the directions set out in SIB's Roadmap, over...

What we do We are interested in studying ecological and evolutionary factors that determine the structure, function and diversity of microbial communities – with a focus on the ocean ecosystem and the gastrointestinal tract of animals and humans....

What we do We develop statistical and computational methods to answer biological questions from big data, from genomic sequence data to images. Our work is motivated by both the wealth of biological data currently being generated, as well as by...

What we do The group is active in the fields of comparative genomics and shotgun metagenomics. We study molecular evolution, develop approaches to genomics data analyses, and implement computational pipelines. We apply evolutionary models to...

What we do The group’s research is focused on elucidating interactions between gene evolution and gene function through developing computational approaches to interrogate evolutionary and functional genomics data. We are developing quantifications...

What we do We focus on the bioinformatic analysis and integration of state-of-the-art functional genomics data that we obtain through close collaboration with experimental biologists (genome sequences, gene and protein expression, metabolomics,...

What we do We are the NEXUS Personalized Health Technologies at the ETH Zurich. Our unit offers highly customizable bioinformatics, biostatistics and software engineering services for projects in the field of biomedical research and development....

What we do sciCORE is a center of competence in scientific computing located at the University of Basel. Over 240 research groups and facilities in the fields of bioinformatics, computational chemistry, physics, biology, medicine, and economics...

What we do In the Computational Evolution Group, we develop phylogenetic tools in order to understand evolutionary processes. Using our phylogenetic methods, we aim to improve our understanding of past evolutionary and population dynamic processes...

What we do SIS is an interdisciplinary bioinformatics and scientific IT support group which builds up computational tools. These tools range from lab databases to reusable framework components that enable and support both data analysis and data...

What we do We study gene regulation through the analysis and modelling of genome-wide datasets. We collaborate closely with experimental researchers on various biological topics, including cancer progression, chromatin biology and cellular...

What we do In the Science IT (S3IT) unit, we provide support for science in general, and for life science and medicine in particular. S3IT serves as a partner for both local and national projects to enable competitive research with the advanced...

What we do We are dedicated to the processing, analysis and interpretation of next-generation sequencing data. We interact closely with research groups, and provide tailored comprehensive bioinformatics solutions. Additionally, we provide standard...

What we do We specialize in Information Extraction from biomedically relevant textual sources, such as the scientific literature, clinical records, or social media. We focus in particular on the extraction of domain-specific entities (such as...

What we do With the advent of high-throughput technologies and clinical information systems, the life sciences and clinical sciences now produce very large amounts of data (big data). Our goal at CI4CB is to uncover hidden patterns in these data,...

What we do We combine Evolutionary and Developmental Biology as well as genomic approaches with the study of physical processes to understand the mechanisms generating life’s complexity and diversity. The self-organizational capabilities of...

What we do The Molecular Modelling Group studies molecular interactions using modelling techniques such as homology modelling, molecular dynamics, docking and free energy simulations. Our main activity consists in developing and applying methods...

What we do In the Computational Biochemistry Research Group, we are interested in the modelling and analysis of biological problems at the molecular level. In particular, our expertise lies in searching algorithms, optimizing algorithms,...

What we do The Computational Biology Group (CoBi) develops computational models of developmental processes. We focus on the delineation of fundamental developmental mechanisms and develop data-driven mechanistic 4D in silico models of...

What we do Our main goal at the Laboratory for Biomolecular Modeling is to understand the physical and chemical properties of complex biological systems, in particular their function with regard to structure and dynamics. To this end, we use and...

What we do In the Scientific and Parallel Computing (SPC) Group, we develop new algorithms and methods to better understand and/or predict various phenomena in biology. We focus on multiscale modelling and computing, high-performance computing,...

What we do We develop concepts and algorithmic tools for the analysis of large-scale biological and clinical data. We participate in many genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for human traits and have a particular interest in the integration of...

Bioinformatics is now essential to life science. But what is this discipline about? And who are the people behind it?

The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) and SIB are teaming up on developing software platforms, services and best practices for privacy-conscious data-driven science in the context of SPHN.

Children aged 9 to 14 are invited to take part in the second edition of SIB's public bioinformatics hackathon in Geneva on Saturday 14 April.