Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Protein Spotlight Update: a tail of protection

Movement is essential to all organisms. Long before the advent of legs for instance, Nature had devised cilia to satisfy the essential need of mobility – both self-mobility and the capacity to create mobility. These tail-like protrusions, which appear on the surface of many eukaryotic cells and are known as motile cilia, are capable of propelling protozoans forward, for example, or of pushing an ovum along the fallopian tube towards the uterus. A second type of cilium also exists. These are... More

Monday, 02 August 2010

HUG choose SmileMS for emergency clinical toxicology screening

HUG choose SmileMS for emergency clinical toxicology screening After close collaboration and thorough testing for over a year, SmileMS small molecule identification software is now relied upon for emergency clinical toxicology screening at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG - Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève). Medical doctors treating patients with toxicological symptoms need fast and reliable identification of the causing toxic agent. Existing screening methods in clinical routine laborator... More

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Protein Spotlight in Japanese

We are pleased to announce that, thanks to Professor Ikuo Obataya, Protein Spotlight articles now exist in Japanese and a site was launched in June this year: http://ja.edu-wiki.org/protein-spotlight/ More

Tuesday, 06 July 2010

Protein Spotlight Update: a mind astray

He hadn’t been able to dial the full number for some time. But he had told his family that the phone was out of order. Until one of his daughters realised that it was not the phone which was faulty but her father’s memory. This is just one of the many manifestations of what could be the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). A disease which affects millions of people worldwide, and sends their families into a whirlpool of doubt, impatience, pain and disbelief. Slowly but surely, Alzhei... More

Friday, 25 June 2010

SIB honours two young bioinformaticians for their outstanding research work

Today, during the 8th [BC]2 Computational Biology Conference in Basel, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics announced the two winners of the SIB Awards 2010  2010 SIB Young Bioinformatician AwardThe winner of the 2010 SIB Young Bioinformatician Award is SIB Member Aitana Morton de Lachapelle, 27, PhD student in the Computational Biology Group led by Prof. Sven Bergmann at the Department of Medical Genetics of the University of Lausanne, which she joined after graduating in Physics from the... More

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Sequencing of the human body louse genome

Sequencing of the human body louse Genome: an important step towards the control of this disease-vector insect. The results of the sequencing and analysis of the human body louse genome, which were published on June 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offer new insights into the intriguing biology of this disease-vector insect. The project involved more than 70 international scientists led by Professor Evgeny Zdobnov at the University of Geneva Medical School an... More

Tuesday, 15 June 2010

Launch of IMIDIA

An Innovative Medicines Initiative Project for Diabetes. Academia. biotech and the pharmaceutical industry have joined forces to fight diabetes. Frankfurt, Germany / Lausanne, Switzerland / Paris, France - June 14, 2010. IMIDIA (“Innovative Medicines Initiative for Diabetes”), a public private consortium funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), announced today the launch of a project focusing on pancreatic islet cell function and survival. Academia, biotech and pharma industry... More

Friday, 21 May 2010

GeneBio, CURML-UTCF Collaborate to Enhance SmileMS for Forensic Toxicology

GeneBio, CURML-UTCF Collaborate to Enhance SmileMS for Forensic ToxicologyGeneva and Lausanne, Switzerland – May 21, 2010 - Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA and the Centre Universitaire Romand de Médecine Légale – Unité de Toxicologie et Chimie Forensiques (CURML-UTCF / University Center of Legal Medicine, Lausanne-Geneva – Forensic Toxicology and Chemistry Unit) today announced their collaboration to enhance the capabilities of GeneBio’s SmileMS software platform for large scale... More

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

SIB and NBIC formalise Collaboration

SIB and the Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to formalise their existing collaboration. With this document, both organisations underline their intention to actively organise collaborative projects in research and education and to join forces in the international bioinformatics arena where relevant. The high-level SIB/NBIC Summer School is a good example of our collaboration as this annual event allows to gather teachers and students fro... More

Thursday, 20 May 2010

Highest-cited Swiss paper in the world

« SWISS-MODEL: An automated protein homology-modeling server », written by Torsten Schwede, Jürgen Kopp, Nicolas Guex and Manuel Peitsch has become the highest-cited Swiss paper in the worldwide scientific litterature for the past 10 years. http://sciencewatch.com/dr/cou/2010/10janALLPAPRS/   More

Monday, 03 May 2010

Chromosome walk, a saunter along the human genome

From May 1st to June 30, Divonne-les-Bains welcomes the Chromosome Walk, a saunter along the human genome exhibition.More information More

Thursday, 29 April 2010

Amos Bairoch is awarded the Otto Naegeli Prize 2010

29 April 2010 This evening, Professor Amos Bairoch is awarded the Otto Naegeli Prize 2010. This award acknowledges his exceptional contribution to the field of protein sequence analysis and more particularly to the developmentof resources such as databases that have been put at the disposal of the scientific community. While still a PhD student, Amos Bairoch,recognized the power of applying computer science techniques to the study of the molecules of life, DNA and proteins. He first develop... More

Monday, 26 April 2010

Protein Spotlight Update: A complicated affair

There is no life without communication. A heart will not beat, an eye will not see, a flower will not bloom, unless cells are exchanging information continuously. Such information comes both from the outside environment – such as light and temperature, for instance – and the inside environment – such as calcium, hormones or pressure, for example. Take a plant. A given leaf does not grow into its shape or size without the help of multiple upstream messages which have been processe... More

Friday, 16 April 2010

SIB/NBIC Summerschool 2010

Quantitative imaging and modelling of biological processes, August 2-6, Amsterdam, More information More

Tuesday, 20 April 2010

BC2 Registration Now Open

[BC]2 Computational Biology Conference in Basel, 24 and 25 JuneRegistration for the Conference is now open. As this event is, after the SIB days, our second opportunity to meet all together, all members are encouraged to participate. Please remind the members of your respective groups about it.****Please register at the following link: http://www.bc2.ch/2010/****  More

Monday, 29 March 2010

Protein Spotlight Update: Love at first smell

Protein Spotlight Update: Love at first smellThe making of life is demanding. Take any form – from fungus to bacteria, and plants to humans – the creation of progeny does not just happen. It takes a lot of molecular dialogue to divide E.coli into two, to cloak pistils with pollen or to get sperm to wriggle its way into the egg. The most complex biochemical pathways are triggered off so that life can not only start to exist but also develop in the best way possible. Lately, some intriguing... More

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

8th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference

8th [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, "Regulation and Control in Biological Systems", Conference Center Basel, June 24 & 25, 2010, More information More