🚨 New preprint We present an extended version of ScAPE, the method that won one of the prizes 🏆 in the @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2023 Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction challenge. 📄 preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧬 code: github.com/scapeML/scape

🥁 Check out our new preprint on OmniPath, the prior knowledge resource for #SystemsBiology, and its brand-new OmniPath Explorer web app! 🥳 📖 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🔍 Explorer: explore.omnipathdb.org OmniPath integrates 160+ resources for multi-omics analysis & modeling. 🧶⬇️

Introducing ParTIpy, a python package for Pareto Task Inference that scales to large-scale datasets, including single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. 🔗 Manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💻 Code: partipy.readthedocs.io

@embl.org PhD programme just open - many interesting projects, including two with us @saezlab.bsky.social @ebi.embl.org - one on #host-microbiome interactions using #spatial omics, and one on #AI in #proteomics 👇

👋 Time to say goodbye to another one of our PhD students, @smuellerdott.bsky.social. She was working on the integration of phosphoproteomics and transcriptomics data and will now join the Computational Oncology Team at Merck. We wish her all the best for this new chapter! 🚀 ✨

We present our MetaProViz #Rpackage for #metabolomics analysis & prior knowledge integration to generate mechanistic hypotheses on how metabolic changes affect metabolite classes, pathways & environment interaction 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 📦 saezlab.github.io/MetaProViz/ 🧵 Thread ⬇️

👀 we are involved in projects 1 & 6 on the list: 1️⃣ Multicellular molecular characterisation of inflammatory bowel disease 6️⃣ Designing Efficient Single-Cell Perturbation Experiments with Lab-in-the-Loop AI Agents 📅 Application deadline is 30th September ❗

Glad to contribute to this collaborative community platform. A case study shows MCP servers working together - combining BioContextAI Knowledgebase with our omnipath omnipathdb.org MCP (work in progress) to showcase interoperability. Looking forward to see how the ecosystem evolves!

🎉 The revised version of CORNETO, our unified Python framework for knowledge-driven network inference from omics data, is published in peer reviewed form 🔗 Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 📖 News & Views: www.nature.com/articles/s42... 💻 Code: corneto.org 🧵 Thread 👇

Four more days to apply to our postdoctoral position 👇

Four more days to apply to our curator position 👇

Don't miss talks in our sponsored Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods – DREAM – session, kicking off with a talk by our Head of Research, @juliosaezrod.bsky.social on benchmarking foundation models in biology www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025... #ISMB2025

Our group @ebi.embl.org‬ is a host for the ARISE2 MSCA-funded post-doc fellowship, in collab with @bioimagearchive.bsky.social‬ and ‪@scilifelab.se (esp. A Mezger and S. Giacomello) to support the development of next-gen spatial data infrastructures. Apply by 30/09 www.embl.org/training/ari...

Postdoc position in our group at @ebi.embl.org about analyzing single cell data sets to better understand and treat neurodegen diseases, in collab with A Bassett, M Lotfollahi, @bayraktarlab.bsky.social, M Strauss and others within Open Targets. Deadline 20/07. Please share tinyurl.com/87wj466m

We have a curator position at @ebi.embl.org to work with GSK within a project to understand fibrotic processes (no PhD required). Deadline 20th July. Please share 🙏 embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

I wrote a short piece on how becoming an IgA Nephropathy patient has changed my perspective on biomedical research, developing an appreciation for the challenges in data interpretability & availability and the importance of patient engagement www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The final version of our multi-omics study on kidney fibrosis is out now (tinyurl.com/kidneyfibMSB). Together w/ Pepperkok + Savitski labs @embl.org, we present a time-resolved #multiomics + computational network modeling approach in combination w/ phenotypic assays to study #kidneyfibrosis

👋 Wishing @paubadiam.bsky.social all the best as he leaves our lab to join the Stanford Department of Genetics in @anshulkundaje.bsky.social lab‬! Looking forward to his future contributions to understanding gene regulation through sequence-to-function deep learning models 💻

🔧 decoupler 2.0.6 is out thanks to @paubadiam.bsky.social‬, now as a core @scverse.bsky.social package scverse.org This release includes a streamlined API aligned with scverse standards, updated vignettes, and a new one on pseudotime enrichment analysis 👇 decoupler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

In this Voices article, our @martingarridorc.bsky.social & @juliosaezrod.bsky.social discuss key strategies for building context-specific molecular networks: knowledge and data-driven methods, + future directions in the field bridging to structures and perturbations tinyurl.com/z8t6yych

Ever wondered which method to use to infer kinase activities from phosphoproteomics data? 💻💭Our revised comprehensive evaluation of kinase activity inference tools, done in collaboration with the Zhang lab @bcmhouston.bsky.social, is now out @natcomms.nature.com 🔬 tinyurl.com/4twuc6z4

Great work by @bayraktarlab.bsky.social , @oliverstegle.bsky.social , and @moritzmall.bsky.social ! Happy that our @ahmetrifaioglu.bsky.social contributed to this study by mapping CCC events between spatially co-localized TME and malignant cells using LIANA+ 🧠 github.com/saezlab/lian...

Happy Birthday @scverse.bsky.social - Our @juliosaezrod.bsky.social has just joined scverse's Management Committee and we look forward to further using & contributing to the ecosystem github.com/saezlab/deco... github.com/saezlab/lian... & more

join us at ISMB iscb.bsky.social & @dreamchallenges.bsky.social - benchmarking foundation models w. @anshulkundaje.bsky.social @oldbap.bsky.social G. Stolovitzky @bowang87.bsky.social @mariabrbic.bsky.social K. Kalantar, J. Guinney supported by @ebi.embl.org @cziscience.bsky.social Tempus AI

The latest version of the Kasumi manuscript is now published in Nature Comms www.nature.com/articles/s41... Kasumi identifies patterns in tissue patches, enabling analysis of disease progression and treatment response while providing insights into spatial coordination at cell-type or marker level

We have an opening for a PhD/Postdoc in Spatial Omics for Cardiology in Heidelberg 🫀 #job #academicjob #phd #postdoc #cadiology 👇 jobrxiv.org/job/heidelbe...

🚨 New preprint: Topography Aware Optimal Transport for Alignment of Spatial Omics Data We present our new alignment framework TOAST www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Congrats & Good luck to our @slobentanzer.bsky.social as he starts his group @diabresearch-dzd.bsky.social & @comphealthmunich.bsky.social - he is hiring 👇

Wrapping up in beautiful Ascona ☀️ for the Modern Benchmark Conference sites.google.com/view/ascona2.... Great to see the community discussing a field that’s essential yet often overlooked and challenging @smuellerdott.bsky.social @barbarazpc.bsky.social @ivanovaos.bsky.social @paubadiam.bsky.social

Congrats to our @juliosaezrod.bsky.social and all other elected fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) as part of the 2025 Class

6 days left to apply to the Post-doc opening in our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics & #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

📄 Update on our preprint about Gene Regulatory Net (GRN) benchmarking 📄 We have included the original and decoupled version of SCENIC+, added a new metric and two more databases. Dictys and SCENIC+ outperformed others, but still performed poorly in causal mechanistic tasks. doi.org/10.1101/2024... 👇

Congrats to @shovalmiyara.bsky.social,Miri Adler, @eldadtzahor.bsky.social & @urialonlab.bsky.social on this great work! We're glad to have supported the translation of findings from theoretical and animal models to human myocardial infarction data using LIANA+ (liana-py.readthedocs.io)

The first version of NetworkCommons is now published in Bioinformatics. Next, we’ll focus on involving more of the network biology community. academic.oup.com/bioinformati... In parallel, we’ll continue expanding benchmarks and developing new applications. Interested in contributing? Reach out! ⬇️

Post-doc opening to join our lab @ebi.embl.org to develop&apply #bioinformatics and #machine-learning methods to study intra-/extra cellular networks to extract disease mechanisms from #single-cell and #spatial multiomic data - please share 🙏 : embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...

Applying LLMs to biomedical research today can go one of two ways: we either use a closed-source web app, or we get coding ourselves. Many researchers lack training for the latter, so their only choice is the former. We want to change that. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are delighted to announce The Health Privacy Challenge, an interactive opportunity for advancement at the intersection of computational biology and privacy research, brought to you as a part of CAMDA Conference at #ISMB/ECCB2025 🫐🍅 Register to participate: benchmarks.elsa-ai.eu?ch=4

We present Gene Regulatory nETwork Analsyis (GRETA), a framework to infer, compare and evaluate gene regulatory networks #GRNs. With it, we have benchmarked multimodal and unimodal GRN inference methods. Check the results here 👇 Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.20.629764 Code: github.com/saezlab/greta

We will be at the inaugural #ESSB conference this week in Berlin: @mariapuschhof.bsky.social a talk on multi-modal brain tumor profiling, @psl-schaefer.bsky.social @tanevski.bsky.social a poster on analyzing condition/temporal spatial data, @changlu9.bsky.social @tanevski.bsky.social [1/2]

We present NetworkCommons, a unified platform 🪐 for network biology, providing access to omics data, knowledge, and contextualization methods, all with a consistent API 👇🧵 Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2024... Docs: networkcommons.readthedocs.io

We have created a starterpack to make it easier to follow current members and alumni from our lab, check it out 👇 (DM us if we forgot about you) Also juliosaezrod.bsky.social has recently joined Bluesky go.bsky.app/5ZtPHPz

What are the key disrupted multicellular processes in heart failure? In our new work we combine 23 years of molecular data with recent single-cell atlases to draw a cross-study patient map doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Hi 🦋 This is the saezlab (saezlab.org) bluesky account. We integrate #omics data with mechanistic molecular knowledge into statistical and machine learning #ML methods, and we share our tools as free #opensource packages (github.com/saezlab/) #systemsbiology #biology #compbio