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International SIB Bioinformatics Awards

Since 2008, the SIB Bioinformatics Awards acknowledge the best work by early career bioinformaticians and ground-breaking resources every other year. The awards are open to researchers from all over the world. There is something for everyone, with three categories to choose from: PhD Paper Award, Early Career Award and Innovative Resource Award.

Deadline to apply: 31 January 2025.

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Course in EBI, UK: Gene-environment interactions in human health and disease

This introductory course is aimed at MRes/PhD students, researchers, clinicians, and other professionals working in the fields of genomics, exposomics, epidemiology, or toxicology with an interest in understanding how interactions between genes and the environment underlie human phenotypes. The course will cover the underlying concepts, computational resources, and computational modelling methods available to investigate interactions between genes and the environment (including social, biological, and physical exposures).

Registration deadline: 15 December 2024

Date: 17 - 21 March 2025

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Conference in Sweden: The Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW) 2024

The Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW) is an annual event that has been organized by different universities in Sweden since 2000. It is the biggest meeting of bioinformaticians and computational biologists in Sweden. Senior scientists and non-academic participants are welcome. In addition, the SBW2024 is part of the Nordic Computational Biology (Nordic CompBio) week and is open to participants from other Nordic countries (Estonia included).

Application deadline: 1st of October 2024

Date: 4-5 November 2024

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Online: Ensuring More Accurate, Generalisable, and Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Bioinformatics

This course is addressed to life scientists, bioinformaticians, and computational biologists who would like to learn more about general best practices in Machine Learning and get more out of their Machine Learning models: more precise hyper-parameters, more generalizable models, and more interpretable models.

Application deadline: 29 September 2024

Date: 15 October 2024

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