🗓️ Today marks #DataProtectionDay, a global reminder of the importance of safeguarding personal information in an increasingly digital world. Artificial Intelligence (#AI) has emerged as a transformative force for enhancing data security and privacy protection. But, it also

Imagine standing in front of experts, sharing your research, and making an impact. Make it a reality—submit your abstract for ISMB/ECCB 2025 by April 17!

In case you missed the feature in our February newsletter: ISCB is happy to share this year’s ISCB 2025 award recipients! Please join us in congratulating each of our 2025 awardees!

Since abstract submissions to #ISMBECCB2025 are organized by #COSI, we wanted to share more information on what each of the COSIs—Communities of Special Interest—are all about! Today, we're sharing a little bit of history on how the COSIs got started! Starting in March, we'll

In 2024, sandbox.bio had >170,000 tutorial page views! 🥳 The most popular tutorials were: 1. ​Terminal basics 2. ​Genomic intervals with bedtools 3. ​Terminal exercises 4. ​Data exploration with awk 5. ​DNA sequencing QC Check them out here: sandbox.bio/tutorials

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4i2EaIb

🌐The 14th ISCB Wikipedia Competition is still underway! Help advance open science in computational biology by taking part. Check the flyer for details or click to get started today: t.ly/hIJQy ISCB Wikipedia Team

Today, we’re talking about CSI: Computational Systems Immunology! The newest addition to ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest, CSI brings together researchers developing computational methods to decode immune responses and tackle complex challenges in immunology.

📢New Research!🧬 Prof. Analabha Basu in collaboration with JNU uncovered genetic & socioeconomic drivers of childhood obesity using GWAS & ExWAS.Their findings open doors for targeted interventions to combat obesity in India! 🔗doi.org/10.1002/oby.24… #Genomics #ChildhoodObesity

📣The Parallel Session "How is Open Science part of Research Assessment: New Metrics for Real Impact" has started! Join Brian Cahill, Dr Karen Stroobants, Helen Clare, and James Morris for an insightful session. #MCAAConf2025

High-throughput proteomics is helping us understand the biological basis (with causality) for diseases. Today for asthma cell.com/cell-genomics/… Cell Genomics UK Biobank Mark McCarthy

This week's genome editing triumph is a big deal. Here's why erictopol.substack.com/p/the-first-hu…

We are proud to collaborate with Global Bioinformatics Education Summit to co-organize #GBES2025. Hope to see many of you next week in Mexico and online! #bioinformatics #computational #biology ISCB News EMBL-EBI Training EMBL-EBI Tecnológico de Monterrey

GeneRanger is a web-server application that provides access to processed data about the expression of human genes and proteins across human cell types, tissues, and cell lines from several atlases. generanger.maayanlab.cloud/en/gene/A1CF?d…

Are you attending ECCB/ISMB this year? I'm looking for candidates to apply to Marie Curie/EMBO postdoc fellowships to join our group & study how local frustration shapes protein biophysical properties at evolutionary timescales. If interested let's grab a coffee in Liverpool 🙌🤝

Preprinting means sharing an early version of your research, generally before journal-organised review. Many organisations are starting to offer and recognise peer-reviewed preprints. But how can preprinting benefit you? Check out our 5 Fs of preprinting.elifesciences.org/inside-elife/8…

ISCB Student Council is coming to #ISMB2025 in Liverpool! 🇬🇧 Ready for Liverpool? We can’t wait to see you! Here’s where you’ll find us: 1️⃣ SCS2025 – Our flagship Student Council Symposium: 👉 iscb.org/scs2025/home 2️⃣ Our Booth – Daily in the exhibitor space (Hall 2, Lower Level) 3️⃣

An excellent scientific event on "Decoding Life: Computational and Biological Frontiers" at Kingston ECE with ISCB RSG UK . If you are a PhD student/ Post-Doc, join us to listen to inspiring talks from scientists from across the globe! Nelly Selem Meg

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A recent distress call: a student has taken about ₹70L ($80K) debt at 12% to get a master's degree in a small college in the US. The problem: the job scene in IT is bad, especially so for foreign students and payments on the loan are starting soon. I don't know what we could