We are excited to announce a new training course on Bgee 🧬 Course: Gene Expression made Useful Easily: Tools and Database of Bgee Date: Friday 29 May 2026 Taught by: the Bgee team (Frédéric Bastian and Marc Robinson-Rechavi) Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eygD8Rrf #bioinformatics #training #RNAseq #singlecell #GeneExpression #bgee
Bgee, a gene expression database
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Bgee is a database at SIB and UNIL to retrieve and compare gene expression patterns in multiple animal species.
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Bgee is a database at SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and University of Lausanne to retrieve and compare gene expression patterns in multiple animal species, produced from multiple data types (RNA-Seq, Affymetrix, in situ hybridization, and EST data) and from multiple data sets (including GTEx data). SIMPLY NORMAL Bgee is based exclusively on curated "normal", healthy, expression data (e.g., no gene knock-out, no treatment, no disease), to provide a comparable reference of normal gene expression. COMPARABLE BETWEEN SPECIES Bgee produces calls of presence/absence of expression, and of differential over-/under-expression, integrated along with information of gene orthology, and of homology between organs. This allows comparisons of expression patterns between species. *To see the original sources of images used in the Bgee LinkedIn page, please visit https://bgee.org and check the bottom of this page. Please do not reproduce them without properly citing the original sources.
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All of the Bgee team shares the shock and sadness of the community. Amos's support was instrumental in guiding Bgee towards high-quality curation and a focus on being useful to the community. He will be deeply missed. SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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Unlike other rhodopsins, fly Rh7 is expressed in many non-retinal neurons. This recent preprint shows why, and Bgee shows where 🤓 🪰 https://lnkd.in/d84cCYAU https://lnkd.in/dRYMiZXb
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We are back online! Thank you to all teams University of Lausanne for their help in securing our infrastructure. Marc Robinson-Rechavi SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Following water dammage in the building which hosts our servers, electricity had to be turned off. Thus Bgee and all other databases from the Marc Robinson-Rechavi group are offline. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring them back online. SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics FBM UNIL - Faculté de biologie et de médecine de l'Université de Lausanne
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Following water dammage in the building which hosts our servers, electricity had to be turned off. Thus Bgee and all other databases from the Marc Robinson-Rechavi group are offline. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring them back online. SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics FBM UNIL - Faculté de biologie et de médecine de l'Université de Lausanne
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What a wonderful week at ISMB/ECCB 2025 in Liverpool! Presentations by our scientists were very well-received, with engaging discussions with researchers from around the world. Highlights include: Amos Bairoch, co-founder of SIB and UniProt, delivered a keynote on biocuration – and received the ISCB Accomplishments by a Senior Scientist Award: https://lnkd.in/ef29UZS8 Christophe Dessimoz, our executive director, gave a presentation on data resources as the missing link in FAIR data policy. Cristina Casals reported on progress in modelling human functional networks in Gene Ontology Causal Activity Models (GO-CAM), as well as pilot projects on receptor–ligand interactions. Anastasia Sveshnikova described the enumeration of 2.25 million lipid-specific reactions as part of the Horizon Europe Recon4IMD project to improve diagnosis and treatment of inherited metabolic diseases. Marc Feuermann presented a new evolutionary model-based resource covering ~82% of human protein-coding genes with GO-based function annotations – available at https://lnkd.in/eC_DeCye. Kristian Axelsen described how Rhea continues to expand with 17,000+ expert-curated reactions, plus progress on LLM-assisted enzyme literature curation and improved reaction visualization techniques. Geert van Geest outlined a global study of stakeholder training needs for FAIR pathogen data, carried out as part of the Pathogen Data Network. Marc Robinson-Rechavi gave a presentation on how gene expression can be used to test hypotheses of functional change after duplication, and how data of diverse species is integrated into Bgee, a gene expression database . And many, many people visited our stand to say hello plus find out more on SIB activities, services, training – and of course ECCB 2026 which we are hosting: https://eccb2026.org/ 👏 Thank you to all our colleagues, collaborators, and friends who made this such an inspiring and impactful event! ISCB - International Society for Computational Biology #Bioinformatics #GeneOntology #MetabolicModeling #GOannotation #RheaDB #SwissProt #Recon4IMD #FAIRdata #ComputationalBiology #Biocuration #SystemsBiology
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The SIB course "Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee" is now available. I you want hands-on experience with Bgee check out our tutorial "The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals" at #BC2. https://lnkd.in/egDWJ_5h https://lnkd.in/eAJwpP_Q SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
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The programme for the #bc2basel tutorials & workshops is out! Including our tutorial T10 - The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals. https://lnkd.in/eAJwpP_Q https://lnkd.in/eBE8q7Ca SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics