Glasgow Computational Biology Community

Sign up now for our third annual Hackathon on the 10th-12th June: forms.office.com/e/yLwuuAx4AJ We look forward to seeing many of you there! More info: glasgow-compbio.github.io/events/20260...

Reminder: our February meeting on Bioinformatics Tools with speakers Yiyi Cheng and Elcid Aaron Pangilinan is happening tomorrow! Date: 27th February, 3-4pm Location: Room 331b, Maths and Stats (Note: this isn't the usual lecture theatre)

Don't forget to come along today!

That’s a wrap! Thank you to all speakers, poster presenters and attendees for making #CompBioGlasgow a success. We hope the posts have sparked your interest in future CompBio events and that we'll see you in October for our next event!

Massive congratulations to the winners of our awards: Nina Fajs - Best Presentation Benjamin Livesey and Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig - Best Poster They combined exciting research with engaging communication and visual design for high impact, insightful work.

This afternoon, we welcomed Dr. Katherine R Duncan from Newcastle University for our final keynote on exploring marine microbial biodiscovery. We thank her for her insights and for sparking some interesting discussions! #CompBioGlasgow

Our Software Engineering Panel explored pertinent questions for modern research and teaching. Is research code overvalued? How much coding do biologists really need to know given ChatGPT? To find the answer, come to #CompBioGlasgow and discuss with the UK's brightest minds.

Day 2 begins with a keynote from Prof. Ram DasGupta. Excited to dive into single-cell analysis to understand immunotherapy response. An exciting start to day 2 of #CompBioGlasgow conference 2025.

Poster session is underway! Brilliant work from our community. Stop by, ask questions #CompBioGlasgow Featured: Rubayet Alam - Antigenic evolution of viruses. Javier Sanz-Cruzado Puig - Accelerating cross-encoders for biomedical linking. Nina Fajs - Genetics link between vitamin D and suicidality.

A selection of the excellent talks today, demonstrating the breadth of knowledge shared at #CompBioGlasgow Zita Borbala F. - Improving brain cancer treatment with electric fields. Dr Thomas A. Wright - bioinformatics for rectal cancer. Britt van Abeelen - Proliterative tRNA clustering.

CompBio Conference 2025 Networking Session: Computational biology & bioinformatics can feel isolating as many labs have just one computational person. Our Networking Session today is all about breaking those silos and building connections across groups. #CompBioGlasgow Follow for more updates.

We’re kicking off with our first keynote: Dr. Ava Khamseh sharing insights on high-order expression dependencies in single-cell data. A fantastic start to #CompBioGlasgow!

Welcome to Day 1 of the Computational Biology Conference here in the ARC at the University of Glasgow! Registration is open. Grab your name tag, meet new faces, and get ready for an exciting day ahead. #CompBioGlasgow

Last week we hosted the 2nd CompBio Hackathon! Participants picked one of 4 projects before implementing solutions across 3 days. It was great to see those interdisciplinary collaborations! Thanks to the Centre for Data Science and AI, @uofglasgow.bsky.social and MVLS NERD for providing the funding.

There's still time to sign up for our Writing Retreat this week! 22/05, 9:00-13:00 ARC 237AB Sign up here: tinyurl.com/wos25compbio More info: glasgow-compbio.github.io/events/20250... #writing #wos25 #apr #compbio

Also this month... Need to write that paper or tricky Thesis chapter? Join our inaugural Writing Retreat as part of Write of Spring 2025 - a supportive space to focus & network with fellow computational biologists (with cake!) 22/05, 9:00-13:00 ARC 237AB tinyurl.com/wos25compbio #writing #wos25

Excited to confirm the details of our March event. We are chatting metagenomics with Umer Ijaz @uofgengineering.bsky.social Andrew Free @edinburghuni.bsky.social and Hannah Lepper. 31st of March Maths&Stats Lecture Theatre

Save the date as we are back for our 5th!!! CompBio conference. This September, 15th and 16th, @uofgarc.bsky.social. More details to follow soon! #compbio #cbc25

Stay tuned for an announcement on our next monthly meeting of cutting edge computational biology! #compbio #metagenomics

Thanks for attending our #variants event on Monday. We had a great turnout at the wonderful ARC, with two brilliant speakers! @jmarshlab.bsky.social highlighted the importance of well-trained variant effect models, while @ailithewing.bsky.social revealed the impact of mutational events in HGSOC.

Our next monthly event will focus on Variants with two exciting speakers from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @ailithewing.bsky.social and @jmarshlab.bsky.social 🗓️ February 17th, 3-5pm 🏠 237B, University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre #compbio #variants

Still time to send us an abstract if you would like to lead one of our 2025 CompBio Hackathon projects!

Not long now! Join us for our end of the year fun ❄️🎄

Join us for a bit of holiday cheer at the annual CompBio Xmas quiz. December 11th, from 4:30 @uofgcompsci.bsky.social 422/423. 🎄🎅

Hello world! Following the success of our 2024 Hackathon, we would like to bring you another opportunity to drive forward exciting science! Call for projects is now open and we cannot wait to hear from you. Send us a project abstract by 18th of December. #compbio #science #hackathon