2021
Awards presentation: 15 September 2021 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
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Early Career Bioinformatician Award |
Laureate: Heba Sailem |
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| Affiliation: University of Oxford, UK | |
| Project: KCML: a Machine Learning framework for inference of multi-scale gene functions from genetic perturbation screens |
Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award 2021 Xinrui Lyu, one of the five laureates |
Laureates: Stephanie Hyland, Martin Faltys, Matthias Hüser, Xinrui Lyu and Thomas Gumbsch |
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| Affiliations: ETH Zurich, Switzerland ; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA; Weill Cornell Medicine, USA ; Zurich University Hospital, Switzerland ; University of Bern ; SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | |
| Paper: Early prediction of circulatory failure in the intensive care unit using Machine Learning |
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Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award 2021 |
Resource: Nextflow, enabling scalable and reproducible scientific workflows using software containers |
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| Represented by: Cédric Notredame | |
| Affiliation: Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain | |
| Project owner: Sequera labs |
2019
Awards presentation: 10 September 2019 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
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Early Career Bioinformatician Award |
Laureate: Eleonora Porcu |
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| Group: University of Lausanne, Zoltán Kutalik, Switzerland | |
| Project: A statistical approach for dissecting the causal molecular underpinning of complex diseases |
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Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award 2019 |
Laureate: Jochen Singer |
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| Group: ETH Zurich, Niko Beerenwinkel, Switzerland | |
| Paper: Single-cell mutation identification via phylogenetic inference |
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Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award 2019 |
Resource: Velocyto - a new framework for the analysis of RNA velocity in single-cell RNAseq data |
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| Represented by: Sten Linnarsson | |
| Group: Linnarsson Lab, Karolinska Institute, Sweden | |
| Project owner: Jointly developed by the Linnarsson Lab, Gioele La Manno (EPFL), Peter Kharchenko (Harvard) and Ruslan Soldatov (Harvard). |
2017
Awards presentation: 15 September 2017 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
| International Young Bioinformatician Award 2017 | Laureate: Sebastian Waszak |
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| Group: EMBL, Jan Korbel, Germany | |
| Project: His outstanding work in computational and statistical biology |
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Best Swiss Bioinformatics Graduate Paper Award 2017 |
Laureate: José Aguilar-Rodríguez |
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| Group: University of Zurich, Andreas Wagner Laboratory | |
| Paper: A thousand empirical adaptive landscapes and their navigability |
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Bioinformatics Resource Innovation Award 2017 |
Resource: RepurposeDB - Reference Database of Drug Repositioning Investigations |
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| Represented by: Khader Shameer | |
| Group: Dudley Lab, Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai (USA) | |
| Project owner: Joel Dudley |
2015
Awards presentation: 10 June 2015 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
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Young Bioinformatician Award 2015 |
Laureate: Shijulal Nelson-Sathi |
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| Group: Institute of Molecular Evolution, Prof. Dr William Martin, Heinrich-Heine-Universität | |
| Project: Major gene fluxes in prokaryote evolution |
| Best Graduate Paper 2015 Read interview |
Laureate: Hannes Röst Steiner |
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| Group: Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Prof. Dr Rudolf Aebersold, ETH Zurich | |
| Paper: OpenSWATH enables automated, targeted analysis of data- independent acquisition MS data |
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International Bioinformatics Resource Award 2015 |
Resource: ABySS, Assembly By Short Sequences - a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler |
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| Represented by: Inanc Birol | |
| Group: Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer Agency | |
| Project owner: Anthony Raymond |
2014
Awards presentation: 26 June 2014 at the SIB Foundation Council meeting in Bern, Switzerland
| Young Bioinformatician Award 2014 Read interview |
Laureate: Joshua Payne |
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| Group: Evolutionary Systems Biology, Andreas Wagner, SIB & University of Zurich | |
| Project: The Robustness and Evolvability of Transcription Factor Binding Sites |
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Best Graduate Paper 2014 |
Laureate: Josephine Daub |
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| Group: Computational and Molecular Population Genetics, Laurent Excoffier, SIB & University of Bern | |
| Paper: Evidence for Polygenic Adaptation to Pathogens in the Human Genome |
2013
Awards presentation: 4-5 July 2013 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
| Young Bioinformatician Award 2013 Read interview |
Laureate: Anamaria Necsulea |
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| Group: Functional Evolutionary Genomics, Henrik Kaessmann, SIB & University of Lausanne | |
| Project: The evolution of vertebrate tissue transcriptomes |
| Best Graduate Paper 2013 Read interview with Slavica Dimitrieva Read interview with Charles E. Vejnar |
Laureates: Charles Vejnar & Slavica Dimitrieva (co-winners - 2 different publications) |
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2012
Awards presentation: 28-29 January 2013 at the SIB Days (SIB’s annual internal conference) in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
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Young Bioinformatician Award 2012 |
Laureate: Christophe Dessimoz |
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| Group: Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Marc Robinson-Rechavi, SIB & University of Lausanne (co-supervised with the EBI- European Bioinformatics Institute) | |
| Project: Resolving the ortholog conjecture: orthologs tend to be weakly, but significantly, more similar in function than paralogs |
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Best Graduate Paper 2012 |
Laureates: Christoph Zechner & Jakob Ruess (co-writers of the same publication) |
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| Group: Heinz Koeppl, ETH Zurich (Christoph Zechner) and John Lygeros, ETH Zurich (Jakob Ruess) | |
| Paper: Moment-based inference predicts bimodality in transient gene expression |
2011
Awards presentation: 23-24 June 2011, at [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
| Young Bioinformatician Award 2011 Read interview |
Laureate: Nacho Molina |
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| Group: Computational Systems Biology Lab, Felix Naef, SIB & EPFL | |
| Project: Mammalian genes are transcribed with widely different bursting kinetics |
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Best Graduate Paper 2011 |
Laureate: Guillaume Rey |
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| Group: Computational Systems Biology Lab, Felix Naef, SIB & EPFL | |
| Paper: Genome-Wide and Phase-Specific DNA-Binding Rhythms of BMAL1 Control Circadian Output Functions in Mouse Live |
2010
Awards presentation: 24-25 June 2010 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel, Switzerland
| Young Bioinformatician Award 2010 Read interview |
Laureate: Aitana Morton de Lachapelle |
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| Group: Computational Biology Group, Prof. Sven Bergmann, SIB & University of Lausanne | |
| Project: Precision and Scaling in Developmental Patterning |
| Best Graduate Paper 2010 Read interview |
Laureate: Rajesh Ramaswamy |
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| Group: MOSAIC Group, Prof. Ivo Sbalzarini, SIB & ETH Zurich | |
| Paper: A new class of highly efficient exact stochastic simulation algorithms for chemical reaction networks |
2009
Awards presentation: 18-19 June 2009 at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel , Switzerland
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Young Bioinformatician Award 2009 |
Laureate: Lukas Burger |
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| Group: SIB Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Group, Prof. Erik van Nimwegen, Biozentrum, University of Basel | |
| Project: How to predict physical interactions between protein residues entirely based on sequence data, using multiple sequence alignments of similar proteins |
| Best Graduate Paper 2009 Read interview |
Laureate: Julien Roux |
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| Group: SIB Evolutionary Bioinformatics Group, Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi , University of Lausanne | |
| Paper: Developmental Constraints on Vertebrate Genome Evolution (PLoS Genetics, December 2008) |
2008
Awards presentation: 24 September 2008, SIB 10th anniversary celebration, Bern, Switzerland
| Young Bioinformatician Award 2008 Read interview |
Laureate: Zoltán Kutalik |
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| Group: SIB Computational Biology Group, Prof. Sven Bergmann, University of Lausanne | |
| Project: Development of a computational tool which may eventually allow scientists to predict the sensitivity of different patients to a range of drugs |