Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
The Génopode building of the University of Lausanne hosts the Center for Integrative Genomics of the University of Lausanne and the central administration of the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics.
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| Abbreviation | SIB |
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| Formation | March 30, 1998 |
| Type | academic not-for-profit foundation |
| Headquarters | SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Quartier Sorge Batiment Genopode 1015 Lausanne Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°31′10″N 6°34′28″E / 46.519433°N 6.574533°ECoordinates: 46°31′10″N 6°34′28″E / 46.519433°N 6.574533°E |
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Switzerland |
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Prof. Ron Appel |
| Website | sib |
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an academic not-for-profit foundation 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 science research community in fields such as genomics, proteomics and systems biology as well as to lead and coordinate the field of bioinformatics in Switzerland. In particular, it promotes research, develops databanks and computer technologies, and is involved in teaching and service activities.
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 create SIB. Once created, the institute could then apply for funding under a Swiss law that allows the government to fund up to 50% of expenses of vital research and teaching infrastructures.
The first director of the institute was Victor Jongeneel followed by Ernest Feytmans between 2001 and September 2007. Since 1 October 2007, the institute is led by Ron Appel, one of its founding members.
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is a federation of research groups with affiliated bioinformaticians at SIB partner institutions: the Universities of Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich, the Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne and Zurich, the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, and the Geneva School of Business Administration (HEG). Current research groups in SIB are located in Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Lugano and Zurich.
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