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Christophe Dessimoz

@cdessimoz

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Director of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (@ISBSIB) and Prof at Uni of Lausanne (@DBC_UNIL @DessimozLab). Follow me https://t.co/2Ia2DLjWxb

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Joined March 2011
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@LeTemps
Le Temps
2 months
OPINIONS. La Suisse, refuge pour les données scientifiques menacées par Donald Trump? ➡️ https://t.co/HwOrXJEpuA
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@LeTemps
Le Temps
2 months
«C’est une réelle menace pour les progrès de la science»: à la suite des coupes américaines, les chercheurs suisses craignent pour leurs données
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@LeTemps
Le Temps
2 months
🗞️ Voici la une du journal «Le Temps» de ce lundi.
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@JohnMHancock
John M Hancock 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
3 months
Excited to share our new preprint from ELIXIR members on Open & Sustainable AI that tackles challenges in life science research related to AI models and provides actionable recommendations to mitigate them. Preprint: https://t.co/siEyQT6Wyf #ELIXIREurope
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@zkutalik
Zoltán Kutalik
4 months
Very excited to give a virtual talk as part of the @eshgsociety webinar series tomorrow at 4pm (CEST). If you want to listen in, register here: https://t.co/aNxCwjfPZ6 I will talk about all the exciting things we can learn from GWAS summary statistics...
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@DrTedros
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
5 months
Vaccines have saved 6 lives every minute since 1974. Thank you, @VilleDeGeneve, for marking the beginning of #WorldImmunizationWeek. It’s time to show the world that immunization for all is #HumanlyPossible.
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@carmonation
Santiago Carmona 🧬 🖥️ carmonation.bsky.social
6 months
Really excited to join @unige_en Faculty of Medicine as associate professor. I look forward to expanding our research program in systems immunology within the Dep. of Pathology and Immunology and contributing to advance the Faculty's data science capabilities! JOB OPPORTUNITY👇
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@cdessimoz
Christophe Dessimoz
7 months
The PAN-GO paper is a remarkable milestone. It not only provides the most comprehensive picture of human gene function to date, but also carefully maps this knowledge across the tree of life! Congratulations Marc Feuermann, Pascale Gaudet et al! https://t.co/HRL6WZeyuy
@Nature
nature
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Nature research paper: A compendium of human gene functions derived from evolutionary modelling https://t.co/vBbuNvrHpO
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@globalbiodata
GlobalBiodata
7 months
Thank you to leading scientists around the world for signing the GBC’s Open Letter calling for support to sustain global biodata resources. If you haven’t already signed the letter, please do so. Click the link https://t.co/j75uSboQ9Z #biodatacounts #globalbiodata @cdessimoz
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@firefoxx66
Dr Emma Hodcroft
7 months
Wir leben in einer Welt, in der es mehr Technologie und Wissenschaft gibt als je zuvor, daher ist ein klarer, starker Wissenschaftsjournalismus wichtiger denn je! #srf #WissenschaftsjournalismusRetten
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@rmwaterhouse
Rob Waterhouse also @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social
7 months
A successful #PhyloSIB workshop today held @unil with presentations from 15 @ISBSIB groups on a wide range of methods & applications - looking forward to the next edition! #bioinformatics #phylogeny #phylogenomics
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Dr Emma Hodcroft
7 months
Wissenschaftler:innen der ETH und der Universitäten Bern, Zürich, St. Gallen und Basel haben eine Petition gegen die geplanten Sparmassnahmen beim Wissenschaftsjournalismus von SRF. Hier unterschreiben!⬇️ https://t.co/WipY6PfEtI
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@ISBSIB
SIB
7 months
👋 We stopped publishing on this platform. Given the enthusiasm for Bluesky in the scientific community and beyond, you will now find us there at: https://t.co/fnnRp7RNz1
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@eriksonnhammer
Erik Sonnhammer
7 months
How are different #orthology methods related and how well do they perform? Read about this and a new orthology benchmark in "New developments for the Quest for Orthologs benchmark service"
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Abstract. The Quest for Orthologs (QfO) orthology benchmark service (https://orthology.benchmarkservice.org) hosts a wide range of standardized benchmarks
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Dr Emma Hodcroft
8 months
Excited to be in Bern today to launch the Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) - a great collaboration of @SIB, @TanjaStadler_CH & Niko Beerenwinkel @ETH, @richardneher @UniBasel & myself @SwissTPH, to better tackle known & novel pathogens - introduced today by @cdessimoz!
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@ProfKateJones
Kate E. Jones 🦇
8 months
🌍 UCL Lecturer/Ass Prof in Biodiversity, Climate Change & Health | 18 Feb 2025. Join UCL’s People and Nature Lab at @UCLEast to lead innovative 'One Health' research, applying genomic & computational tools to tackle ecological & public health challenges.
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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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@multicellgenome
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
8 months
Fantastic #Sinergia retreat on #animalorigins! A day packed with insights into #multicellularity, #ichthyosporeans, #choanoflagellates & more—capped with a Swiss-style finale. Huge thanks to @dirk_fasshauer @Pahskahrailly @steg0s4urus @cdessimoz @pedrobeltrao @merimonas
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@SinaMajidian
Sina Majidian
8 months
How it works? FastOMA uses 1️⃣A fast k-mer based placement for clustering homologous genes, 2️⃣Highly parallelized, taxonomy-guided processing of gene family. Read more on FastOMA in our behind-the-paper blogpost: https://t.co/cifs3rRb5N
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