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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an academic not-for-profit foundation dedicated to biological and biomedical data science which federates bioinformatics activities throughout Switzerland.
The institute was established on 30 March 1998 and its mission is to provide core bioinformatics resources to the national and international life sciences research community in fields such as genomics, proteomics and systems biology, as well as to lead and coordinate the field of bioinformatics in Switzerland. It promotes research, develops open databanks and software tools, is involved in teaching and service activities and in the coordination of national and international life science infrastructure projects.
It is partly funded by the Swiss government as a research infrastructure of national importance under the Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation (RIPA).
The institute was originally created to provide a framework for stable long-term funding for both the Swiss-Prot database and the Swiss EMBnet node. Swiss-Prot in particular went through a major funding crisis in 1996, which led the leaders of the five research groups active in bioinformatics in Geneva and Lausanne, Ron Appel, Amos Bairoch, Philipp Bucher, Victor Jongeneel and Manuel Peitsch to propose the creation of SIB.
The Swiss government was at the time looking to support transdisciplinary centers of excellence in future economically important scientific fields, and provided the seed funding. Once established as a non-profit Foundation, the Institute could then apply for Federal funding: by law that support could only amount to 50% of expenses, however. The rest had to come from other sources, i.e. competitive grants and matching funds.
The SIB includes about 200 employees distributed across Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, Zurich), along with 700 affiliated members across most of Switzerland’s major academic institutions.
SIB’s 90 groups are active in fields as varied as environmental bioinformatics, proteomics, transcriptomics, genomics, systems biology, structural bioinformatics, evolutionary bioinformatics, modelling, imaging, biophysics, population genetics and clinical bioinformatics. SIB organizes a biannual international scientific meeting, the [BC]2 (Basel Computational Biology Conference).
The first director of the institute was Victor Jongeneel followed by Ernest Feytmans. Ron Appel, one of its founding members, then led the institution until 2022.
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Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an academic not-for-profit foundation dedicated to biological and biomedical data science which federates bioinformatics activities throughout Switzerland.
The institute was established on 30 March 1998 and its mission is to provide core bioinformatics resources to the national and international life sciences research community in fields such as genomics, proteomics and systems biology, as well as to lead and coordinate the field of bioinformatics in Switzerland. It promotes research, develops open databanks and software tools, is involved in teaching and service activities and in the coordination of national and international life science infrastructure projects.
It is partly funded by the Swiss government as a research infrastructure of national importance under the Federal Act on the Promotion of Research and Innovation (RIPA).
The institute was originally created to provide a framework for stable long-term funding for both the Swiss-Prot database and the Swiss EMBnet node. Swiss-Prot in particular went through a major funding crisis in 1996, which led the leaders of the five research groups active in bioinformatics in Geneva and Lausanne, Ron Appel, Amos Bairoch, Philipp Bucher, Victor Jongeneel and Manuel Peitsch to propose the creation of SIB.
The Swiss government was at the time looking to support transdisciplinary centers of excellence in future economically important scientific fields, and provided the seed funding. Once established as a non-profit Foundation, the Institute could then apply for Federal funding: by law that support could only amount to 50% of expenses, however. The rest had to come from other sources, i.e. competitive grants and matching funds.
The SIB includes about 200 employees distributed across Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, Zurich), along with 700 affiliated members across most of Switzerland’s major academic institutions.
SIB’s 90 groups are active in fields as varied as environmental bioinformatics, proteomics, transcriptomics, genomics, systems biology, structural bioinformatics, evolutionary bioinformatics, modelling, imaging, biophysics, population genetics and clinical bioinformatics. SIB organizes a biannual international scientific meeting, the [BC]2 (Basel Computational Biology Conference).
The first director of the institute was Victor Jongeneel followed by Ernest Feytmans. Ron Appel, one of its founding members, then led the institution until 2022.