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A new lead in FAIR data
HITS researcher Ulrike Wittig will be a new lead in the data platfom of the European life science organization ELIXIR. She …

Getting health data into shape
A multidisciplinary team is set to establish a research data infrastructure for personal health data in Germany: nfdi4health. The project – …

ELIXIR facilitates development of COVID-19 Disease Map
HITS researchers collaborate with ELIXIR Nodes to contribute to the development of a knowledgebase of SARS-CoV-2 virus host-pathogen interactions. Announced last …

Data visualization with SABIO-VIS
Collecting and curating data has never been more important – especially for systems biology. If already existing data isn’t available to …

The COMBINE Meeting celebrates its 10th anniversary!
The “Computational Modeling in Biology” Network (COMBINE) was founded ten years ago as an initiative to coordinate the development of community …

Metabolic signaling as new concept for breast cancer risk estimation
HITS is partner of the international research consortium “MESI-STRAT” that explores the interplay of breast cancer metabolism and oncogenic signaling by …

In memory of Isabel Rojas
On May 11, 2018, Isabel Rojas (1968-2013) would have turned fifty years old. HITS views Isabel Rojas’s fiftieth birthday as an opportunity to …

Call for Proposals for Genomic Information Compression and Storage
MPEG Issues Genomic Information Compression and Storage Joint Call for Proposals in Conjunction with ISO/TC 276/WG5 The introduction of high-throughput …

New Standards in Biotechnology
A new working group for data processing and integration in biotechnology has been set up by the International Organization for Standardization, …

ICSB: Standards for Systems Biology
In September, Martin Golebiewski (SDBV) organized workshops on computer models and standards at the 15th International Conference on Systems Biology (Melbourne, …