SPSP Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform is a collaborative and secure platform centralizing all SARS-CoV-2 sequences in Switzerland and submitting them to ENA and GISAID (read more), provided by the Clinical Bioinformatics group.
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Participate in the EPIC challenge
Posted 09 October 2026
EPIC (Eukaryotic Promoter and transcription Initiation prediction Challenge) aims to establish a rigorous benchmark for promoter and transcription initiation prediction in understudied species, advance sequence-based genomic modelling, and improve our understanding of how regulatory information is encoded in eukaryotic genomes. The closing date is Dec 31, 2026 so you can still join and win!
Upcoming course on Building and Maintaining Scientific Resources
Posted 02 October 2026
Apply to attend the SIB course Building and Maintaining Scientific Resources which will take place online on November 25, 2026! This 0.5-day course is taught by one of the developers of the STRING database of known and predicted protein-protein interactions.
New in Expasy: SPSP SPARQL endpoint
Posted 25 September 2026
Access the public data on viral pathogens from the Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform using the SPSP SPARQL endpoint! There are now a total of 12 SPARQL endpoints listed in Expasy. It's time to SPARQL!
STRING v12.5 is now available!
Posted 17 September 2026
The next version of STRING is ready for use in your analyses: updated networks across STRING, newly available directed regulatory networks, a new typed view showing functional, physical, and regulatory edges in one network, new clustering options and cluster-based layouts … and much more!
Upcoming course on Computer-Aided Drug Design
Posted 02 September 2026
Apply to attend the SIB course Computer-Aided Drug Design which will take place in Bern on October 26 - 28, 2026! This 3-day course is taught by the developers of SwissDrugDesign.