Bioinformatics Institute (BII)
The Bioinformatics Institute (BII) was set up by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in July 2001; it was re-launched with a strong scientific program in 2007. Located in the Biopolis in Singapore, BII is conceived as the computational biology research and postgraduate training institute as well as a national resource centre in bioinformatics within the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) of A*STAR.
The Bioinformatics Institute (BII) aims to understand the biomolecular mechanisms that underlie biomedical phenomena by developing sophisticated computational methods to support this discovery process from a secure and sustainable data hub to cross-disciplinary AI/ML analysis and data integration. We analyse a wide spectrum of biological and clinical data, including omics data (biomolecular sequences, expression profiles, epigenetics data), 3D structures of macromolecules, and biological tissue and macroscopic images from local and international academic, hospital and industry collaborators, public resources and from our own experiments. Our applied research diversifies into infectious diseases, computational toxicology, natural product research, precision medicine, cancer research, and drug discovery.
Research Divisions
Biomolecular Sequence to Functions
Biomolecular Structure to Mechanism
Cellular Image Informatics
Biomedical Data Hub
Events
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, 23 October 2024
BII Seminar: Making BioImage Data FAIR on a Global Scale: OME’s Bio-Formats, OMERO, & IDR
Speaker : Prof Jason Swedlow, Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Tuesday, 15 October 2024
BII Seminar: Quantum computing for data analysis
Speaker: Dr. Jayne Elizabeth Donovan Thompson, Senior Principal Scientist, IHPC & QInC (A*STAR)
Meeting ID : 922 5373 1819
Passcode : 553614
Wednesday, 30 October 2024
BII Seminar: Conformational Sampling, Thermodynamic Landscapes and Chemical Intuitions: Computational Routes to the Molecular Mechanisms of Biomolecules
Speaker: Prof Shubhra Ghosh Dastidar, Dept of Biological Sciences, Bose Institute, India
Meeting ID : 953 5107 3775
Passcode : 762800
Thursday, 07 November 2024
BII Seminar: High-Resolution Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Biophysics
Speaker: Prof. Jean Philip Piquemal, CSO & co-founder Qubit Pharmaceuticals
Meeting ID : 912 7570 8392
Passcode : 388945
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
BII Seminar: Beyond transcriptomics, mass spectrometry based proteomics, from bulk to single cell analysis
Speaker : Dr Radoslaw Sobota, Principal Scientist, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology
Thursday, 24 October 2024
BII Seminar: The Search for a Novel Pyruvate Kinase Activator - From a HTS Hit via an Impurity to the Discovery of a Lead Series
Speaker: Dr. Shahul Nilar
Thursday, 03 October 2024
BII Seminar: Generative Design and Synthesis Prediction in Modern Drug Discovery
Speaker : Dr. Kenneth Atz, AI Scientist, Roche
Host: Dr. Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Executive Director, BII
Friday, 20 September 2024
BII Science Unplugged 1
Justice Undone: Misapplied Science in Crime Investigations, by Olga Sirbu.
Serendipity in Science, by Pietro Aronica.
Tuesday, 01 October 2024
BII IBIDA course: Theoretical Aspects of Generative Models
Kindly reach out to the IBIDA course organizers via the following email, IBIDA@bii.a-star.edu.sg. Registration will close on 29th September 2024, 2359 SGT.
Thursday, 26 September 2024
BII Seminar: The Molecular Basis of RNA Virus Antigenic Shift
Bioinformatics Institute (BII) would like to invite you to attend the following seminar:
Speaker : Dr. David LV Bauer, Virologist, The Francis Crick Institute, UK
Thursday, 12 September 2024
BII Seminar: A whole-slide foundation model for digital pathology from real-world data,
Bioinformatics Institute (BII) would like to invite you to attend the following seminar:
Speaker : Dr Poon Hoifung, General Manager, Microsoft Health Futures
Monday, 12 August 2024
BII Seminar: AI for Predictive Analytics in the Development of Novel Therapeutics
Speaker : Dr James Lu, Distinguished AI Scientist, Genentech
Wednesday, 21 August 2024
Joint Seminar: BII-AI3 Special Interest Group of Digital Health Seminar
Speaker : Dr Dianbo Lu, Department of Biomedical Informatics, National University of Singapore
Monday, 26 August 2024
BII Seminar: Robust Spatial Biomarker Development Through AI-enabled Virtual Staining
Speaker : Dr Mai Chan Lau, Assistant Principal Investigator, Bioinformatics Institute (BII)
Friday, 26 July 2024
BII Seminar: Using simulation to understand the mechanism of transport and drug uptake in Peptide Transporters
Speaker : Prof Philip Biggin, Professor of Computational Biochemistry, Dept of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
BII Seminar: In silico enzymology - modelling enzymes using computational tools
Speaker : Prof Sam Hay, Computational Theoretical Chemistry, University of Manchester
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
BII Seminar: Targeting an oncofetal protein SALL4 in cancer
Speaker : Dr Li Chai, Pathology/Transfusion Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
BII Seminar: Targeting Energy of Life for Eradication of antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens
Speaker : Prof. Dr. Gerhard Grüber, School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tuesday, 25 June 2024
BII Seminar: Developing new CADD methods for Drug Discovery and Relocalization
Speaker : Prof Zhu Weiliang, Principal Investigator, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)
Friday, 07 June 2024
BII Event: BII Scientific Conference 2024
Please go to the page for the updated program.
BII Scientific Conference 2024
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