Bioinformatics Journal Club
At the Bioinformatics Journal Club, our aim is to learn about the latest advancements in the field of bioinformatics, and to gain experience in presenting, critical reading, and summarizing key points from research articles. Articles chosen should be from high-impact journals (e.g. Science, Nature, Nature Methods) and published within the past 12 months.
The format of the Bioinformatics Journal Club is as follows: each club session starts with a short introduction by a student (~5 min) to place their chosen article in its wider context within the research discipline, which is followed by an in-depth presentation of the article (~10-15 min). After the presentation, all participants are welcomed to discuss the presented article, its impact and its relation to their own work/studies (~20-30 min). The presentations and discussions are in English.
The Journal Club is open to everyone interested but please read the article before the club event!
Schedule, spring 2024
Bioinformatics Journal Clubs take place in Biocity B stairs, 5th floor seminar room at 13-14 on following Wednesdays:
February 7
“Noncoding RNAs improve the predictive power of network medicine”
PNAS, November 2023
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301342120
Presenter: Olof Rundquist
March 6
“Cardinal v.3: a versatile open-source software for mass spectrometry imaging analysis”
Nature Methods, November 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-02070-z
Presenter: Markus Linden
April 3
“Flash entropy search to query all mass spectral libraries in real time”
Nature Genetics, March 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-023-02012-9
Presenter: Mats Perk
May 15:
“Single-cell multi-omics defines the cell-type-specific impact of splicing aberrations in human hematopoietic clonal outgrowths”
Cell Stem Cell, September 2023
https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(23)00257-6
Presenter: Daniel Giesel
Wish to participate as a presenter in autumn 2024?
Please send your article suggestion by June 10 to mbc (at) bioscience.fi.
Recommendation for credits
Participating in the journal clubs six times is recommend to equal to 1 credit and credits are accumulated so that 12 times equals 2 credits and so on. Presenting an article in the journal club equals 1 credit. Participation is monitored by a name list that is circulated every time – please contact us to ask for a certificate when you are claiming your credits at the end of your studies.
Contact for more information: Asta Laiho / mbc (at) bioscience.fi.