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Alan Bridge

@alanbridge.bsky.social
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Director of the Swiss-Prot group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland, PI of UniProt and the Rhea reaction knowledgebase.

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Rhea knowledgebase @rhea-db.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The first release of 2026 of the Rhea database is out! Release 140 (2026-01-28) contains 18,343 unique reactions and 15,125 unique reaction participants, with 25M protein sequence entries annotated with Rhea reactions in UniProtKB.
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 12/01/2026
🎉 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
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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...
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 30/10/2025
💡 No AI in health without great data. In @BilanMagazine’s health supplement, Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social makes the case for Switzerland as a leader in trusted, high-quality health data — and how turning data into public value starts with strong infrastructures. 👇 Read more
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Reliable data for better care
Every medical revolution has been driven by a technological breakthrough: chemical synthesis paved the way for modern medicines, genetics for the first gene therapies. The next frontier will be determ...
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 15/09/2025
🧬 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 More 👇
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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...
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 13/06/2025
SIB Executive Director @dessimoz.bsky.social‬ highlights Switzerland’s opportunity to invest in science where others are retreating, arguing for: 🇨🇭strengthened ERI funding & international collaboration; 🚀 funding for data infrastructure as a driver of innovation. See more👇
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Switzerland’s science future: continued leadership or drift into decline?
The United States offers a cautionary tale of how a leading science nation can face abrupt disruption. Switzerland has an opportunity to decisively strengthen its own science leadership&nbsp...
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FlyBase @flybase.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We currently have a call for support that has gone out to European labs, to support FlyBase-UK. We are asking our colleagues from labs in the US and other countries to wait for a similar call to them that will go out in the near future, to support the US sites. We thank you for your patience.
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IntAct @intact-ebi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Thrilled to announce that the protein–protein interactions of 396 SLC transporters, characterized by interaction proteomics from the RESOLUTE project, is now integrated into IntAct! Congratulations to #‪Superti-FurgaLab, #FabianFrommelt Explore the interactome at www.ebi.ac.uk/intact/searc...
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VIB.AI @vibai.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Don't miss the opportunity to join the Machine Learning in Life Sciences Summer School, organized by @viblifesciences.bsky.social and @sib.swiss. Expect a dynamic hackathon-style format with expert guidance and inspiring lectures. ✉️ Submit your application by Tue! tinyurl.com/krvaajwb
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Marc Robinson-Rechavi @marcrr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great opportunity to join University of Lausanne as tenure-track professor of AI-oriented computational biology! Applications to molecular evolution are especially welcome 😃. career5.successfactors.eu/career?compa...
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 04/03/2025
Fully open, FAIR and AI-ready biodiversity data by 2035 – this is the goal of a new roadmap already signed by natural history collections, journal publishers, global biodiversity networks & research infrastructures including SIB. See more 👇🏽 @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @libroscope.bsky.social
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Liberating global biodiversity knowledge from scientific literature
SIB and other leading infrastructures and biodiversity information experts will make crucial knowledge on our planet’s species openly available in FAIR, machine-readable and AI-ready formats. The �...
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Torsten Schwede @torstenschwede.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🧪🧬🔬 Postdoc in Computational Structural Biology at the @biozentrum.unibas.ch & @sib.swiss in Basel, Switzerland. www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/open-positio... The position is initially funded for 3 years, possibility to start immediately. #StructurePrediction, #Bioinformatics, #Uniprot3D, #AI
Open Postdoc Position at the schwede lab, Biozentrum Basel.
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bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
KG-Microbe - Building Modular and Scalable Knowledge Graphs for Microbiome and Microbial Sciences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Chris Mungall @cmungall.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
82% of human protein-coding genes now have robust, consistent functional annotations, thanks to the combined efforts of biocurators across the GO consortium, Model Organism Databases, SwissProt/UniProtKB, all based on explicit evolutionary modeling via PANTHER families!
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Christophe Dessimoz @dessimoz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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 @marcfeuermann.bsky.social, Pascale Gaudet & collaborators! www.sib.swiss/news/sib-hel...
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SIB helps create most complete, accurate resource for human gene functions
For the first time, biodata from humans have been integrated with that of other organisms to provide the most comprehensive picture of human gene function to date. The new ‘PAN-GO’ resource used e...
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SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss · 27/02/2025
🧬 Known functions are available for over 20,000, or 82%, of human protein-coding genes in the new PAN-GO resource – thanks to evolutionary modelling co-developed by SIB scientists @marcfeuermann.bsky.social and Pascale Gaudet & published in ‪@nature.com‬. See more👇 #OpenData #LifeSciences
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SIB helps create most complete, accurate resource for human gene functions
For the first time, biodata from humans have been integrated with that of other organisms to provide the most comprehensive picture of human gene function to date. The new ‘PAN-GO’ resource used e...
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