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Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility

Sun, 15 Sep 2013 09:22:25 -0500

The Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility has started working in the year 2007 at Presidency College, Kolkata. It is one of the premier institutes of India and boasts of a rich heritage and great alumni. The Infrastructure Facility has a dedicated team headed by Sayak Ganguli and ably supported by Priayanka Dhar. The coordinator of the facility is Abhijit Datta of the Post Graduate Department of Botany. The lab mainly focusses on the analysis of the RNA Induced Silencing Complex. Recent highlights include the presentation of a paper at the RNAi World Congress.

More @ http://bioinfo-presiuniv.edu.in/index.php

Top Journals in Bioinformatics: How to Choose Where to Publish & Why It Matters

LEGE — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:49:02 -0500

Bioinformatics is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of biology, computer science, mathematics, and statistics. As data volumes increase, as well as the diversity of data types (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, imaging, single‑cell data, etc.), the need for robust computational methods, rigorous models, and reproducible tools has never been greater.

A key decision for researchers is: Where should I publish my work? The choice of journal impacts visibility, peer recognition, and long‑term influence of your research. Below I provide a guide to leading journals in bioinformatics, criteria for selecting the journal that best fits your work, and why these considerations matter.

Leading Journals in Bioinformatics

Journal	What it’s Known For / Strengths	Best Fit for What Kind of Work
Bioinformatics (Oxford Journals)	Strong for methods, computational biology, database papers, algorithm development.	New computational methods; tools with broad applicability; databases; methodological advances.
Briefings in Bioinformatics	High impact reviews, overviews, and synthesis articles.	Review‑style articles; comparative studies; widely used tools.
PLOS Computational Biology	Emphasis on method development plus biological insight; open access.	Interdisciplinary work; computational method with biological applications.
BMC Bioinformatics	Broad scope; good for software, pipelines, resources; open access.	Software development; pipelines; data resources; benchmarking.
IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)	Rigor in computation, algorithms, performance.	Algorithmic innovations; statistical/computational method work.
BioData Mining	Focused on data mining / ML in biology.	Machine learning / AI applied to biological datasets; predictive models.

Criteria to Use When Choosing a Journal

Scope & Audience
Impact & Visibility
Review Time & Speed
Open Access
Cost / APCs
Reputation vs Practical Fit
Reproducibility, Data & Code Sharing Policies
Indexing & Reach
Quality of the field
Accelerating discovery
Fair access
Credibility & trust
Read recent papers in the journal
Tailor the manuscript
Check the author guidelines
Have backup journals ready
More emphasis on machine learning / AI
Single‑cell, spatial omics, multimodal data
Cloud workflows, reproducible pipelines
Preprints / open peer review
Alternative metrics (software use, downloads, community adoption)

Selecting where to publish in bioinformatics isn’t just about prestige; it’s about reaching the right audience, ensuring your work is usable, and contributing to the field responsibly.

Chemical Elements of Bioinformatics

Rahul Agarwal — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:35:39 -0500

You must be familiar with periodic table and colour pattern, but this time you are going to amaze by new elements table by Eagle genomics. Just check it out and have fun :)

http://elements.eaglegenomics.com/

Bioinformatician Dreams

Jitendra Narayan — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:50:45 -0500

Bioinformatician life is interconnected, they always dream for a powerful server, little more space on server as they are generating lots of data per run, dream to publish results in good impact journals, meetings reminders :) and research analysis off course!!!

Bioinformatics and Sequencing Courses and Workshops

Rahul Agarwal — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:41:26 -0500

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) organises lots of bioinformatics courses covering wide range of topics:

http://www.isb-sib.ch/education/training-courses.html

Canadian bioinformatics also organises various bioinformatics and sequencing courses:

http://bioinformatics.ca/workshops

In addition to above two, EMBI Europe, EMBO Europe, Cold Spring Harbour USA, Wellcome Trust UK and NOVA Europe also organise bioinformatics and sequencing courses annually:

http://www.embl.de/training/events/index.php?p_outstation=ALL

http://www.embo.org/funding-awards/courses-workshops

http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.html

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Education-resources/Courses-and-conferences/Advanced-Courses-and-Scientific-Conferences/Advanced-Courses/index.htm

http://www.nova-university.org/pagetop.cfm?MenySidorTop_id=2&open=7

R and Bioconductor Tutorial

Jitendra Narayan — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:23:59 -0500

This tutorial is intended to introduce users quickly to the basics of R, focusing on a few common tasks that biologists need to perform some basic analysis: load a table, plot some graphs, and perform some basic statistics. More extensive tutorials can be found on the project website and via bioconductor (not covered here).

You can add more tutorial links in comments if found new pages.

Address of the bookmark: http://manuals.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/home/R_BioCondManual

The Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics (Janet Kelso)

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:57:45 -0500

The focus of this group is to use computational approaches to gain an insight into genome evolution in primates.

PNAS papers:
http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Janet+Kelso&sortspec=date&submit=Submit

Jobs:
http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/jobs.html

Contact:
Kelso Group
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Email: kelso@eva.mpg.de

What is Bioinformatics?

Wed, 28 Aug 2013 06:53:05 -0500

Illustration and Animation: Rachel Robinson Script: Tiffany Trent Voice-over: Kris Monger Sound: Glisten Carefully by Guennadi Malyshevski

May 17, 2013 - Differential Network Analysis

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:22:28 -0500

Steve Horvath presents Differential Network Analysis at the UCLA Human Genetics/Biostatistics Network Course

15 highly motivated Early Stage Researchers (ESRs)/PhD positions

Sun, 25 Jan 2015 05:23:53 -0600

The MiND programme looking for 15 highly motivated Early Stage Researchers (ESRs), researchers with a BSc or MSc degree within the first four years (full-time equivalent) of their research career

All applications sent before 2nd of February 2015.

http://www.mind-project.eu/career