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✨ Awesome network visualizations created by one of the winners of the #NetBio #Cytoscape visualization contest: Alejandra Paulina Perez Gonzalez #ISMBECCB2025

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🎉 And now it is time to introduce our last and shared keynote with the Microbiome COSI: @fionabrinkman.bsky.social is talking about "Microbiome multitudes and metadata madness" connecting the #Microbiome and #NetworkBiology communities! #ISMBECCB2025

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NetBio Cytoscape Visualization Competition

👋 We wrap up our #NetBio track 2025 with announcing the #Cytoscape network visualization competition winners (woobox.com/b9poce) Congrats: 1: Alejandra Paulina Perez Gonzalez 2. Michael Costanzo 3. Jong Chan Lim 👏👏👏 Exciting to have Alejandra and Jong in the audience and congrats to Michael!

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✨ And it's already time for the last selected #NetBio talk! Piotr Sliwa is presenting "Multilayer Networks Identify Clinically Relevant Patient Endotypes in COVID-19 and Sepsis" #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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📣Last speaker of the #NetBio morning session: Samuele Firmani is presenting GATE (Graph Antiviral Target Explorer) to predict disease genes in viral infections with Message Passing Neural Networks" #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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✨Johannes Kersting just presented his cool #Nextflow Pipeline for Network-Based Disease Module Identification and Drug Repurposing nf-co.re/diseasemodul... github.com/nf-core/dise... #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #NetBio

🎤 Next up is Terence Egbelo He is sharing his research on "Improving Target-Adverse Event Association Prediction by Mitigating Topological Imbalance in Knowledge Graphs" with the #NetBio audience! ✨ #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #KnowledgeGraphs

🔊 Nicoleta Siminea just presented her work on "Interactome-based computational solutions to support personalized drug therapy decisions in glioblastoma" at the #NetBio track at #ISMBECCB2025!

#NetBio talks are continuing in room 1B: Dongmin Bang is presenting his proceeding paper on "MixingDTA: Improved Drug-Target Affinity Prediction by Extending Mixup with Guilt-By-Association" doi.org/10.1093/bioi... #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

✨After a very well-attended first poster session with lots of discussions, we are now starting with the second day of #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025! Make sure you visit our #NetworkBiology posters in the next two days! Lots of: - tools/resources - methods/algorithms - biomedical applications/use cases

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⌛It's already time for our last #NetBio speaker of today: ✨🔊We are excited to welcome our 2nd keynote speaker Jan Baumbach talking about "Quantum computing for network medicine-based epistatic disease mechanism mining - Fake it till you make it?" ✨ #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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🎤 Next talk at #NetBio is by Aritra Bose from IBM Research presenting their work on "Quantum Random Walks for Biomarker Discovery in Biomolecular Networks". #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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After lots of #NetBio discussions over coffee, we are now starting the last session for today: Lucas Gillenwater is presenting his #ISMBECCB2025 proceeding paper "GRACKLE: An interpretable matrix factorization approach for biomedical representation learning". doi.org/10.1093/bioi... #NetworkBiology

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🎤 Next talk at #NetBio: @beatrizurda.bsky.social: Disentangling the genetic and non-genetic origin of disease co-occurrences #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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☕️ The #NetBio COSI team will be around during the 4PM coffee break in Room 1B! Come chat about the COSI, getting involved, or anything else. We’ve got open roles (incl. one Abstract Chair position) for next year. Let’s connect if you are interested! #ISMBECCB2025

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🔊 Next in #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025 Dewei Hu presents: SPACE: STRING proteins as complementary embeddings Cross-species network embeddings meet protein function prediction, leveraging STRING across 1,300+ eukaryotes. A powerful complement to sequence embeddings! #NetworkBiology

🎤 Next #NetBio talk: Erik Sonnhammer presents #FunCoup6, an upgrade to the functional association network database, now with enhanced regulatory links, a redesigned interface, and powerful new tools for comparative interactomics and disease module analysis. funcoup.org #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

🎙️Next #NetBio talk: Kivilcim Ozturk uncovers how mutations in intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) disrupt protein interactions in cancer, revealing potential cellular vulnerabilities. #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

🔊 Now presenting in our #NetBio track: Ibrahim Alsaggaf introduces Sup-EGsCL, a contrastive learning method using enhanced Gaussian noise augmentation to better predict gene longevity effects from protein-protein interaction networks. github.com/ibrahimsagga... #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

🔊 Up next at #NetBio: Sindhura Kommu presents her work on "Prediction of Gene Regulatory Connections with Joint Single-Cell Foundation Models and Graph-Based Learning." She couldn’t join us onsite in Liverpool, but is connecting live to share her research ✨! #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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Our #NetBio track will continue in a few minutes in room 1B with another set of great talks! Have you already seen our new logo ✨👏? Thanks @romanayanez.bsky.social for the beautiful design 🥰!

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🧬Excited to welcome Giulia Cesaro to present #CellGOSSIP, a novel strategy to decode cell-specific intracellular signaling from noisy single-cell data using personalized network propagation. 🎯 Reveal hidden pathway dynamics and functional cell states! #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology #NetBio

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📢 Next up: @SaniyaKhullar presents NetREm, a powerful new method revealing how transcription factors coordinate gene regulation across cell types. From immune cells to Alzheimer’s brains, NetREm maps regulatory networks with real-world validation. #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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📢 Next up at #NetBio: We're excited to welcome Mayra Luisa Ruiz Tejada Segura presenting: "Nichesphere: A Method to Identify Disease-Specific Physical Cell-Cell Interactions and Communication Networks" #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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🚨 Excited to announce our first keynote for #NetBio 2025: Laura Cantini (@cantinilab.bsky.social)! She is sharing cutting-edge work on multi-modal learning for single-cell data integration, tackling how to combine diverse omics and spatial data to unlock new insights into cellular heterogeneity.

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✨ @anaisbaudot.bsky.social is opening #NetBio 2025 to a full conference hall here in Liverpool. Exciting to see many network enthusiasts in one room! 👏 #ISMBECCB2025 #NetworkBiology

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⏳ The countdown is on! #NetBio at #ISMBECCB2025 kicks off in just 5 minutes! The organizing team is thrilled to welcome you and share the exciting program. See you there!

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