Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee Attendance is free of charge; however, registration is mandatory. Overview Bgee is a curated database of gene expression in animals, including model s

Registration is open for the training course on Bgee 🧬
Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee
Friday 29 May 2026
The course is online, starting at 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EDT / 7:00 PDT
www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
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FlyBase Funding Update – March 2026 The NHGRI funding for FlyBase has been restored for US-based FlyBase teams but the foreign subaward that supported the essential curation team at the University of Cambridge UK has been terminated. Therefore, the Cambridge UK team now requests annual contributions from fly labs to support curation of new data into FlyBase and the Alliance of Genome Resources. Without these annual contributions, FlyBase will become frozen in its current state and become progressively less useful. Please visit the ‘Contribute to FlyBase’ wiki page for details of how to contribute.

FlyBase release FB2026_01 is live!

There is news about FlyBase funding. Go to the FlyBase homepage flybase.org for details.

Network Medicine GPT trained on PrimeKG which used @bgee.org expression knowledge: curated data is useful data.

Bgee Expression Comparison

CAMK1D is "mostly expressed in the central nervous system within mammals" as seen through Bgee's integration and comparison of data in 25 mammals
www.bgee.org/analysis/exp... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social

Three further SIB knowledgebases gain prestigious European recognition A total of eight expertly curated knowledgebases developed by SIB scientists are now designated as ELIXIR Core Data Resources (CDRs) – with the three new additions representing half of those sel...

🎉 Congratulations to Bgee and the two complementary SwissOrthology knowledgebases, OMA and OrthoDB, for being selected as ELIXIR Core Data Resources! See more👇

@bgee.org @marcrr.bsky.social @dessimoz.bsky.social @elixir-europe.org

Congratulations to Xenbase for 25 years of froggy biocuration!

Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee Overview This is a course on bioinformatics resources taught by the developers of the resources. Bgee is a curated database of gene expression in anim

We are excited to announce a new training course on Bgee 🧬
Course: Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee
Date: Friday 29 May 2026
Taught by: the Bgee team (Frédéric Bastian and Marc Robinson-Rechavi)
Learn more: www.sib.swiss/training/cou...
#bgee @marcrr.bsky.social

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (@sib.swiss) We are deeply saddened to share the passing of Amos Bairoch, pioneer of bioinformatics and co-founder of SIB. His lifelong commitment for high-quality, open data transformed global research. We…

All of the Bgee team shares the shock and sadness of the community. Amos's support was instrumental in guiding Bgee towards high quality curation and a focus on being useful to the community. He will be deeply missed. @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social
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US genomics pioneer Paul Thomas joins SIB as Swiss-Prot co-director Paul Thomas joins Alan Bridge in leading SIB’s largest group, based in Geneva. As a pioneer in computational biology for genomics, principal investigator of a globally important resource on gene...

🧬 US genomics expert Paul Thomas joins SIB as Swiss-Prot co-director, with @alanbridge.bsky.social
🔍 Leader in gene function research; among the world’s most-cited scientists
📊 His arrival strengthens SIB’s role in generating trustworthy, AI-ready biological knowledge #UniProt #GeneOntology
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Unlike other rhodopsins, fly Rh7 is expressed in many non-retinal neurons. This recent preprint shows why, and Bgee shows where 🤓 🪰
www.bgee.org/search/expre...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @pingkalai.bsky.social @v-kirsch.bsky.social

We are back online! Thank you to all teams @unil.bsky.social for their help in securing our infrastructure. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social

Following water dammage in the building which hosts our servers, electricity had to be turned off. Thus Bgee and all other databases from the @marcrr.bsky.social group are offline. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring them back online. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social

We have improved the situation with the website and thank you for your patience. We are continuing to make changes to prevent this from happening in the future.

The Bgee website has been experiencing some issues, thank you for your patience while we work to solve them.

Very nice preprint on the importance of #FAIR data resources in the life sciences, for AI and generally for science, by a great @sib.swiss team led by @dessimoz.bsky.social. With @bgee.org inside ;)
zenodo.org/records/1572...

Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions Overview The aims of this biodiversity bioinformatics course are to (i) explore key evolutionary concepts, (ii) examine different methodological appro

Registration is open for our @sib.swiss course Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions! Orthologs, paralogs, non model animal genomes, comparison of gene expression and of function, and more!
www.sib.swiss/training/cou...

📣 ELIXIR has published a position paper on the importance of #OpenData infrastructure for 🌍 European competitiveness in life sciences.
Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/22XW72k

#ResearchInfrastructure #Science4EU

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The SIB course "Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee" is now available. I you want hands-on experience with Bgee check out our tutorial "The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals" at #BC2. buff.ly/IQc9uGD buff.ly/BI5jySb

Tutorials & workshops The [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference is Switzerland's main event in the domain of Computational Biology and one of the major events of its kind in Europe. The conference unites scientists…

The programme for the #bc2basel tutorials & workshops is out! Including our tutorial T10 - The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals. bc2.ch/tutorials-wo... bsky.app/profile/sib.... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social

We are excited to release our gene expression heatmap visualization tool. Add genes and identify which organs or cell types the genes are highly or lowly expressed in. Try it out here: www.bgee.org/search/expre...
@sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social

We had a great time at our workshop on FAIRification of single-cell RNA-Seq data and sharing the goals of #scFAIR at #biocuration2025 @biocurator.bsky.social

@bgee.org was used to design stem-cell based vaccines 💉against cancer in mouse models, opening a door to potential application with humans.

🔎 This is an example of the impact that bioinformatics databases and tools developed by SIB groups have.

👉 www.sib.swiss/services/ope...

#SIBResourceImpacts

This looks great. I plan to use Bgee open data to further annotate genomic on the fly. I'm already using Wikidata and Uniprot. All this sounds exciting. :)

Bgee What kind of data does this resource provide? Bgee is a database for retrieval and comparison of gene expression patterns across multiple animal species. It provides an intuitive answer to the questio...

Bgee has been featured this week by the Global Biodata Coalition! Bgee is a database for retrieval and comparison of gene expression patterns across multiple animal species.

Read more here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bgee-g...

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | Data scientists for life As a leading organization in biological and biomedical data science, SIB maximizes scientific impact through FAIR data, biodata resources, and innovation.

The SIB Swiss Institute of #Bioinformatics is on Bluesky! We’re a non-profit organization dedicated to biological & biomedical #dataScience, supporting research & innovation. Follow us for updates on personalized health, biodiversity, pathogens, open science and more. Visit us at sib.swiss

ZFIN is now on Bluesky!

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SWAT4HCLS 2024 conference proceedings are published, including this paper from Rangel et al which shows how Bgee's open data and integration with Wikidata can be used to train LLMs for complex queries. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3890/paper-4.pdf @marcrr.bsky.social @swat4hcls.bsky.social