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 Journal Club is open to everyone interested but please read the article before the club event!
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.
Organizing team: Antonio Sousa, Sadia Akram, Itana Bojovic.
Bioinformatics Journal Clubs take place in Biocity B stairs, 5th floor seminar room at 13-14 on following Wednesdays:
Schedule, autumn 2026
September 9
“StringTie3 improves total RNA-seq assembly by resolving nascent and mature transcripts”
Nature Methods, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-026-03080-3
Presenter: Daniel Giesel
October 7
“Thor: a platform for cell-level investigation of spatial transcriptomics and histology”
Nature Communications
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62593-1
Presenter: Sebastián Zúñiga Norman
November 11
“Scalable single-cell total RNA sequencing unifies coding and noncoding transcriptomics”
Nature Biotechnology, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-026-03068-6
Presenter: Nicholas Booth
December 2
“Facilitate integrated analysis of single cell multiomic data by binarizing gene expression values”
Nature Communications, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60899-8
Presenter: Noor Zannat
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: mbc (at) utu.fi.