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Day of Young Software Developers: Award for Students of the Division Data Science in Biomedicine

On July 11, students from the Technical University of Braunschweig presented the results of this year's software development internship. The event provided a platform for aspiring developers to showcase their semester projects and compete with other talents from the fields of Computer Science, Business Informatics, and Information Systems Engineering.

Successful workshop on computer modelling in biology and medicine 2024 in Dresden

On 6 and 7 June 2024, the workshop of the GMDS/IBS-DR working groups 'Mathematical Models in Medicine and Biology' and 'Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics' took place in Dresden.

Paper 'On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling' now available

The paper 'On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling' has now been published in Microbial Genomcis.

The publication titled 'Inference of differential gene regulatory networks using boosted differential trees' now published in Bioinformatics Advances.

The paper 'Inference of differential gene regulatory networks using boosted differential trees' has recently been published in Bioinformatics Advances.

P4D: Our Group is Part of the Largest German Study to Improve Treatment of Depression

Currently, some people suffering from depression cannot be helped with standard therapies. Therefore, a national project is investigating how the treatment of depression can be tailored more closely to individual patients.

PLRI will co-host HealthHack 2023

HealthHack 2023 - we'll be a part of it! On March 4 and 5 it's hack, tinker, code for the health and care of tomorro wat the TRAFO Hub in Braunschweig! As a participating institution, we are looking forward to many exciting ideas. Will we see you in Braunschweig? Register now! More information can be found [here](https://metropolregion.de/gesundheit/healthhack/)!

KI4ALL: Teaching more Artificial Intelligence in university

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a widely discussed topic and considered as one of the key technologies of the future. However, responsibly applying AI requires knowledge about its fundamentals. In order to implement more AI in academic teaching, TU Braunschweig takes part in the KI4ALL initiative in cooperation with two other universities based in Lower Saxony.

BIOMEDAS: Lisa-Marie Bente receives Best Talk Award

For her talk on 'Biomarker Mining for Neurodegenerative and -inflammatory Diseases' Lisa-Marie Bente has been voted second place by professors and other PhD students at the BIOMEDAS retreat.

Tim Kacprowski elected as one of the leaders of the working group Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics of the GMDS e.V.

During the Workshop on Computational Methods in Biology and Medicine 2022, Tim Kacprowski has been elected as one of three leaders of the working group Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics of the GMDS e.V.

More Transparency in Artificial Intelligence

Togther with many great collegaues, we have proposed a standardized registry for artificial intelligence (AI) in biomedicine to improve the reproducibility of results and create trust in the use of AI algorithms in biomedical research and, in the future, in everyday clinical practice. The paper has appeared in _Nature Methods_ and is freely available at [https://rdcu.be/cv5H7](https://rdcu.be/cv5H7).