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🌍 BioHackathon Europe is a unique opportunity to bring people together to work on #bioinformatics projects for a week. Mihail Anton, the BioHackathon Europe co-organiser, ✨ highlighted that the many BioHackathon Europe projects continue beyond the event and lead to longer collaborations or even joint applications to EU projects. 🎯 If you have a project idea, but don’t know how to push forward 🏃, submit your proposal now to accelerate your project in #BioHackEU26! Submit now: https://loom.ly/m6hEBcM

EMBL welcomes its new Director General, Tony Hyman, who will take up the mandate of leading EMBL’s six sites as the organisation enters its next phase. Hyman, a group leader and visiting senior scientist at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999, succeeds Interim Director Ewan Birney, who assumed leadership following the death of Interim Director General Peer Bork in January. Together, Bork and Birney had led the institution since former Director General Edith Heard moved to the Francis Crick Institute in London as its new Director and Chief Executive. “This is a moment when biology is changing rapidly,” said Hyman. “Advances in imaging, large-scale data generation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping how we study living systems. EMBL has played an important role in previous periods of change, and I look forward to working with colleagues across the organisation as it enters this next phase.” https://lnkd.in/dATD2DZR

📣 The #SIBRemarkableOutputs 2025 are out! Discover a selection of outstanding contributions from SIB Members across Switzerland—highlighting the latest breakthroughs and innovative ideas in #bioinformatics. 💡 This year’s shortlist spans cutting-edge research and resources, including: - A powerful search engine for biological sequences (Nature) — from the group led by Gunnar Rätsch at ETH Zurich - A tool to evaluate AI-predicted macromolecular complexes (Nature Methods) — from the group led by Torsten Schwede at University of Basel - A method to detect parent-of-origin genetic effects (Nature) — from the group led by Zoltán Kutalik at Université de Lausanne - A gut microbiome resource at subspecies level (Cell Host & Microbe) — from the groups led by Evgeny Zdobnov & Evgenia Kriventseva at Université de Genève  - A structure-based approach to study protein evolution (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology) — from the group led by Christophe Dessimoz at Université de Lausanne - A method to genetically characterise cancer-cell clusters (Nature Genetics) — from the groups led by Niko Beerenwinkel & Nicola Aceto at ETH Zurich  - An AI tool for faster, more efficient drug discovery (Nature) — from the group led by Bruno Correia at EPFL 👉 Explore the full shortlist: https://lnkd.in/eE_8PbK3 Stay tuned as we spotlight each of these remarkable outputs over the coming days 🙏 We warmly thank the SIB Awards Committee for their time and expertise in selecting this year’s Remarkable Outputs: Laurent Falquet (Chair), Charlotte Soneson, Frederique Lisacek, Janna Hastings, Luciano Cascione, Maria Anisimova, Monique Zahn, Robert Ivánek, Robert Waterhouse #SIBRemarkableOutputs #bioinformatics #LifeSciences #DataScience #OpenScience #ComputationalBiology ETH Zürich EPFL University of Lausanne - UNIL University of Basel University of Geneva ELIXIR BioAlps - Swiss Health Valley Campus Biotech University of Bern University of Zurich Life Sciences Switzerland (LS2)

✨ The next 3D-BioInfo webinar will focus on deep learning and #3DBioInfo. Join the webinar to hear about deep learning for structured-based drug design and protein-ligand cofolding methods. 🗓️15 April 2026 | 🕔17:00-18:00 CEST Register now: https://loom.ly/aOcJfJE ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology

🧬 How can AI systems directly interact with and reason over biological data? Join this ECCB 2026 tutorial to explore how large language model (LLM) agents are transforming data access and interpretation through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This hands-on session will introduce the concepts behind MCP and demonstrate how it enables AI systems to query tools, integrate resources, and generate context-aware insights from biological datasets. 🔹 Organized by Damian Szklarczyk (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and University of Zurich) 📆 Thursday 3 September 9:00-17:30 at the CICG congress venue ⚠️ Places are limited and early-bird registration is open until 31 MARCH ➡️ do not miss the opportunity to secure your spot! 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/exy3NPnt #ECCB2026 #Bioinformatics #AIinGenomics #ComputationalBiology #Multiomics Diana Marek Patricia Palagi Graf SIB Training

👀 Have a new #bioinformatics project idea in your mind? Want to work and discuss your ideas with other bioinformaticians? Imagine – you can have a week working with your colleagues 🚀 on interesting and innovative bioinformatics projects without distractions, how much can you achieve? Last year, Berenice Batut told us that the best thing about the BioHackathon is the full week of dedication to projects and sitting together with other bioinformaticians to brainstorm 🙌. 📣 Don't miss the chance to submit your project proposal for #BioHackEU26! We look forward to receiving projects on different bioinformatics research areas! 🔗 Submit your project proposal now: https://lnkd.in/etVTQxeW

👍 Good management of #researchdata enables results to be found, understood and reused by others, increasing scientific value and reducing duplication of effort. #ResearchDataManagement is central to the implementation of the #FAIRprinciples and to broader open science objectives. 🚀 New and enhanced resources to support sustainable Research Data Management services across Europe have been released following a two-year ELIXIR-funded project, DATAREX - Data Management for Research in ELIXIR, strengthening ELIXIR’s RDM Community. Read the news: https://loom.ly/VSx73Rc