Vital-IT Competence Centre in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology ^{Research Labs}

The Vital-IT team is composed of a director and 69 scientists and technical staff with expertise in software development, data management, biological data analysis, web technology and trans-disciplinary research. Vital-IT participates to nation-wide or international training tasks funded either by its research collaborators, by separate grants or by the SIB. These include the organization of professional bioinformatics courses for non-bioinformaticians (learning how to use Vital-IT resources), as well as the maintenance and development of the ExPASy Bioinformatics Resource Portal, which provides access to scientific databases and software tools in different areas of life sciences including proteomics, genomics, phylogeny, systems biology, population genetics, transcriptomics. Vital-IT participates into collaborative R&D projects, in which the involvement of its scientists has been highly customizable (from pure IT service to project leaders).