Congratulations to Xenbase for 25 years of froggy biocuration!

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: www.sib.swiss/training/cou... #bgee @marcrr.bsky.social

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 @marcrr.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/sib....

🧬 US genomics expert Paul Thomas joins SIB as Swiss-Prot co-director, with @alanbridge.bsky.social 🔍 Leader in gene function research; among the world’s most-cited scientists 📊 His arrival strengthens SIB’s role in generating trustworthy, AI-ready biological knowledge #UniProt #GeneOntology More 👇

Unlike other rhodopsins, fly Rh7 is expressed in many non-retinal neurons. This recent preprint shows why, and Bgee shows where 🤓 🪰 www.bgee.org/search/expre... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @pingkalai.bsky.social @v-kirsch.bsky.social

We are back online! Thank you to all teams @unil.bsky.social for their help in securing our infrastructure. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social

Following water dammage in the building which hosts our servers, electricity had to be turned off. Thus Bgee and all other databases from the @marcrr.bsky.social group are offline. We apologize for the inconvenience, and are working to bring them back online. @sib.swiss @dee-unil.bsky.social

We have improved the situation with the website and thank you for your patience. We are continuing to make changes to prevent this from happening in the future.

The Bgee website has been experiencing some issues, thank you for your patience while we work to solve them.

Very nice preprint on the importance of #FAIR data resources in the life sciences, for AI and generally for science, by a great @sib.swiss team led by @dessimoz.bsky.social. With @bgee.org inside ;) zenodo.org/records/1572...

Registration is open for our @sib.swiss course Biodiversity bioinformatics: from large-scale phylogenomics to gene families and functions! Orthologs, paralogs, non model animal genomes, comparison of gene expression and of function, and more! www.sib.swiss/training/cou...

📣 ELIXIR has published a position paper on the importance of #OpenData infrastructure for 🌍 European competitiveness in life sciences. Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/22XW72k #ResearchInfrastructure #Science4EU

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. buff.ly/IQc9uGD buff.ly/BI5jySb

The programme for the #bc2basel tutorials & workshops is out! Including our tutorial T10 - The Bgee suite: leveraging standardized and comparable transcriptomics data across animals. bc2.ch/tutorials-wo... bsky.app/profile/sib.... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social

We are excited to release our gene expression heatmap visualization tool. Add genes and identify which organs or cell types the genes are highly or lowly expressed in. Try it out here: www.bgee.org/search/expre... @sib.swiss @marcrr.bsky.social

We had a great time at our workshop on FAIRification of single-cell RNA-Seq data and sharing the goals of #scFAIR at #biocuration2025 @biocurator.bsky.social

@bgee.org was used to design stem-cell based vaccines 💉against cancer in mouse models, opening a door to potential application with humans. 🔎 This is an example of the impact that bioinformatics databases and tools developed by SIB groups have. 👉 www.sib.swiss/services/ope... #SIBResourceImpacts

This looks great. I plan to use Bgee open data to further annotate genomic on the fly. I'm already using Wikidata and Uniprot. All this sounds exciting. :)

Bgee has been featured this week by the Global Biodata Coalition! Bgee is a database for retrieval and comparison of gene expression patterns across multiple animal species. Read more here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/bgee-g...

The SIB Swiss Institute of #Bioinformatics is on Bluesky! We’re a non-profit organization dedicated to biological & biomedical #dataScience, supporting research & innovation. Follow us for updates on personalized health, biodiversity, pathogens, open science and more. Visit us at sib.swiss

ZFIN is now on Bluesky!

SWAT4HCLS 2024 conference proceedings are published, including this paper from Rangel et al which shows how Bgee's open data and integration with Wikidata can be used to train LLMs for complex queries. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3890/paper-4.pdf @marcrr.bsky.social @swat4hcls.bsky.social

The SIB course “Gene expression made useful easily: tools and database of Bgee” is now available. This course covers the curated gene expression data in Bgee, how to detect active genes from RNA-Seq, and the various tools available to access Bgee gene expression data. https://buff.ly/4j3Zhus

Bgee in 2024! Single-cell integrated with bulk RNAseq and other technologies, 52 species, and new programmatic and web access. https://buff.ly/3BzV9Bn @SIB.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy @marcrr.bsky.social

It's great when PubPeer allows dialogue with researchers to improve single-cell annotation 😀 https://buff.ly/3BsVrKe @pubpeer.com @biocurator.bsky.social @marcrr.bsky.social @SIB.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy

There's a lot of new people here. Welcome! So I'm reposting our starter pack. go.bsky.app/Npxsd7h

In this exciting new preprint, Warwick Vesztrocy et al use Bgee to show that "the most diverged orthologues display the greatest change in gene expression, thus suggesting that they have a greater functional divergence" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Coming to #biocuration2025? Join our workshop scFAIR: FAIRification of single-cell data www.stowers.org/events/biocu... @SIB.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy @marcrr.bsky.social sc-fair.org #scRNAseq #FAIR #biocuration #bgee #FAIRdata #FAIRification #scFAIR #SingleCellAnalysis

Do you know gget by the Pachter lab? You should! It now includes efficient querying of Bgee in Python. Get high quality curated gene expression data directly in Python or command line. pachterlab.github.io/gget/en/bgee... #RNAseq #biocuration #Python #scRNAseq

Hi this is the account of the Bgee database of gene expression maintained by the lab of @marcrr.bsky.social & Frederic Bastian at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @SIB.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy and University of Lausanne @dee-unil.bsky.social: bgee.org