This 2-day course will introduce participants to the core concepts of Bayesian statistics through lectures and practical exercises. The exercises will be implemented in the widely used R programming language and the Rstan library. They will enable participants to use standard Bayesian statistical tools and interpret their results.
Registration deadline: April 22, 2024 or as soon as the course is full
Bioinformaticians of the world, it's your time to shine! The SIB Bioinformatics Awards promote excellence, diversity and innovation in the field of bioinformatics, and are now open to entries until 31 January 2023.
SIB created the Bioinformatics Awards in 2008 to acknowledge early career bioinformaticians and ground-breaking resources of national and international standing. The international awards honour excellence in bioinformatics and computational biology within three categories:
The awards are assigned by an international jury, revised by the SIB Award Committee and announced during the biennial [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference.
More info available here: https://www.sib.swiss/science-promotion/bioinformatics-awards