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What we bring to the world of science
From national coordination projects to data services and resources.
Resources
We enable life science research through the provision of world-leading open science databases and software.
Centre of excellence
We leverage our expertise and non-profit status for the benefit of academia, hospitals or the industry, in Switzerland and abroad.
Coordination
We break down silos to bring together data and experts over multicentric projects, and maximise investments.
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What is bioinformatics ?
Life scientists and clinicians have always tried to assemble data and evidence to find the right answers to fundamental questions. Nowadays, there is no shortage of data. But a different kind of problem has emerged. New technologies are producing data at an unprecedented speed. Indeed, so much data – and of such variety – that they can no longer be interpreted by the human mind alone.