Training biologists in Unix command-line skills: From curriculum to interactive online tutorials As the generation of data in the life and health sciences expands rapidly, there is a growing need for professionals and students in these fields to master core bioinformatics skills, particularly tho...

From @robert.bio @helenechiapello.bsky.social @mthomaschollier.bsky.social & col. in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Training biologists in #Unix command-line skills: From curriculum to interactive online tutorials|#Education #OpenEducationalResources | 🖥️ 🧪
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Discover the SIB Remarkable Outputs 2025 Seven outstanding data resources, software tools, and peer-reviewed publications from our members have been recognized as SIB Remarkable Outputs – an annual spotlight on the excellence and diver...

Congratulations to the awardees of the @sib.swiss Remarkable Outputs from 2025 - the submissions were of such high-quality it was really difficult to select the most remarkable! www.sib.swiss/news/discove...

From @nature.com ’s #Systems #Biology & #Application | From #FAIR to #CURE: guidelines for computational #models of biological systems | #Education #OpenScience #Credible #Understandable #Reproducible #Extensible | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Online tutorial on survival analysis for biomarker discovery Author summary In teaching data science, one of the biggest challenges is engaging the audience. Hands-on learning is a powerful way to do this—after all, the field itself starts with data. Another ke...

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Online tutorial on survival analysis for biomarker discovery | #Bioinformatics #Education #OpenScience #OpenEducationalResources #Tutorial #Biomarker #Kaplan-Meier | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Co-authorship as a traded commodity: the experiences of early career education academics in Hong Kong, Canada and the UK It is estimated that almost a half of all authors listed in co-authored papers do not satisfy widely adopted international guidelines with respect to legitimate co-authorship. In order to better un...

From @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Studies in #Higher #Education | Co-authorship as a traded commodity: the experiences of early career #education #academics in #HongKong, #Canada and the #UK | #OpenScience #Ethics #Publications |🧪🔓 via @retractionwatch.com
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Alessandro Cuozzo Vilá (UNIL & SIB), from SIB Vincent Zoete's group, will present "Développement d’outils basés sur les connaissances pour la conception de médicaments assistée par ordinateur" 👏👏👏

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Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.

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From @nature.com 's #Scientific #Data | CODE beyond FAIR: a roadmap for reusable research software | #Education #CODE #FAIR #Research #OpenScience #OpenSource #PublisherToEnforceOpenSource 🧪🔓
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“NCCRs are a key instrument for strengthening cutting-edge research… From spring 2026, the Swiss Confederation will support six new National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs). The Swiss National Science Foundation…

From spring 2026, Switzerland will support six new National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCRs). In an interview, @snf-fns.ch Research Council President Torsten Schwede explains how projects are selected and why the new NCCRs matter for Switzerland’s research landscape ⬇️

Ten quick tips for building FAIR workflows Research data is accumulating rapidly and with it the challenge of fully reproducible science. As a consequence, implementation of high-quality management of scientific data has become a global priori...

From @anna-niehues.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten quick tips for building FAIR workflows | #FAIR #FAIR4RS #Education #PLOSCBQT 🧪 🔓 CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social
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Remembering Phil Bourne Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor

'Phil was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology, where he created the beloved Ten Simple Rules series. He was so prolific in the series that the meta-article “Ten Simple Rules for Writing a PLOS Ten Simple Rules Article” literally includes, as Rule 4: “Be Philip E. Bourne.”

So sad news. I'm pretty sure that a big part of PLOS CB success is thanks to Phil's incredible idea of the Ten Simple Rules collection. He will be missed, also by the bioinformatics trainer's community. 😢

Remembering Phil Bourne Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor

Remembering Phil Bourne. Personal reflections on a legendary scientist, leader, builder, and mentor. blog.stephenturner.us/p/rememberin...

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Ascona workshop "Statistical and AI methods for multi-modal multi-scale modeling of biological systems", 28 June - 3 July.

Deadline for registration Mon 16 March, 23:59 CET.
There are ~10-12 places left.

Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature curation Abstract. Biological knowledgebases facilitate discovery across the life sciences by structuring experimental findings into human-readable and computable f

From #OUP s @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal | Empowering biological knowledgebases: advances in human-in-the-loop AI-driven literature #curation | #Bioinformatics #AI #LLM #OpenScience #Biocuration | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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📣 #ECCB2026 proceedings deadline extended to 16 March 13:00 CET
Submit to 1 of our 6️⃣ sessions:
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Discover the new SIB learning paths 🧬 Structured #Bioinformatics training from beginner to advanced levels, including machine learning and omics data analysis. Plan your next learning step and share within your network

📣 Reminder! Share your research with the global bioinformatics community at ECCB 2026.
3️⃣ submission types:
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Don’t miss this chance to present your latest findings and connect with over 1,000 international experts!
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📣Reminder! 3 days left for submitting proceedings at #ECCB2026🎤
Submit your abstract in 1 of the 6️⃣sessions :
🔹Genomics
🔹Transcriptomics & gene regulation
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🔹Systems biology
🔹Environmental bioinformatics
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HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program On 5 February 2026, our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of HPC Carpentry as the fourth official lesson program of The Carpentries, alongside the Data Carpentry, Library Ca...

From The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org | HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program | #HPC #OpenScience #Education 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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From Permits to Samples: Addressing Key Challenges for High‐Quality Reference Genome Generation in Europe High-quality reference genome assemblies have become essential for deepening our understanding of biodiversity, yet obtaining them for many species remains surprisingly challenging. Drawing on experi...

From the @ergabiodiv.bsky.social community & Sampling & Sample Processing (SSP) Committee onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Outputs like this are great examples of the bottom-up co-creation philosophy of ERGA actions - congratulations to the whole team! #biodiversity #genomics

New collaborative work our team in @plos.org Plos Computational Bio. Our goal was to demystify the annotation process and make it more accessible. Give it a try! @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social @bhcri.bsky.social

Rubrics, Not Vibes: Consistency as a Feature in Peer Review with AI Responsibly using AI for a structured first pass manuscript / grant proposal review can reduce reviewer variance while keeping human judgment central. Bonus: a prompt I use for my own draft proposals.

From @stephenturner.us | Rubrics, Not Vibes: Consistency as a Feature in Peer Review with AI | 🧪 #AI #OpenScience #PeerReview #Grants #Publications #PairedEnds
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Graphic celebrating a milestone for the Galaxy Training Network. Large text at the top reads “Congratulations to the Galaxy Training Network on 500+ tutorials!” Below is a screenshot of the Galaxy Training Hall of Fame page showing statistics: 517 contributors, 35 topics, 501 tutorials, and 10.6 years. The “501 tutorials” box is highlighted with a red starburst. A world map with contributor locations appears beneath the statistics.

🎉 Time to celebrate! The Galaxy Training Network just passed 500 tutorials!
Free. Open. Community-built. Reproducible.
Powered by 500+ contributors worldwide, making data analysis accessible to everyone.
Be sure to check out this amazing team and the GTN, here: training.galaxyproject.org

Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) Author summary Galaxy is a free, community-built web interface that helps scientists analyse data in a way that’s easy to use, transparent and reproducible. While it is widely used in biology and othe...

From @bebatut.bsky.social @abretaud.bsky.social @hrhotz.bsky.social et al. in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) | #Bioinformatics #Education #UseGalaxy 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @galaxyproject.bsky.social
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