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Charlotte Soneson wins Bioconductor Award 2021

Charlotte Soneson, a member of the FMI Computational Biology platform, has been awarded the Bioconductor Award 2021 that recognizes outstanding contributions to the Bioconductor project and community. The Bioconductor project is one of the major software collections for bioinformatics and is used every day by tens-of-thousands of people worldwide.

Spotlight on FMIers: Marco Pregnolato

From imaging neurons to measuring their true activity

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The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), based in Basel, Switzerland, is a world-class biomedical research institute, affiliated with the University of Basel and the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research.

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Tissue regeneration in the African spiny mouse

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The genetic history of plague: From Stone Age to the 21st century

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Single-molecule mRNA and translation imaging in neurons.

Mitchell J, Chao JA

Biochem Soc Trans

A database and deep learning toolbox for noise-optimized, generalized spike inference from calcium imaging.

Rupprecht P, Carta S, Hoffmann A, Echizen M, Blot A, Kwan AC, Dan Y, Hofer SB, Kitamura K, Helmchen F, Friedrich RW

The stabilized Pol31-Pol3 interface counteracts Pol32 ablation with differential effects on repair.

Shimada K, Tsai-Pflugfelder M, Vijeh Motlagh ND, Delgoshaie N, Fuchs J, Gut H, Gasser SM

Life Science Alliance

Polymer Folding Simulations from Hi-C Data.

Zhan Y, Giorgetti L, Tiana G

Methods Mol Biol

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