We are delighted to announce that, with the support of the FORGENOM II project, the Comenius University Science Park, in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular Biomedicine, will organize the 7th Central-Eastern European Congress on Free Nucleic Acids (CEECFNA) on 10–11 September 2026 in Bratislava, Slovakia. This international symposium will bring together leading researchers, clinicians, and early-career scientists working in the field of circulating nucleic acids, li

On 16-17 July 2026, representatives of the FORGENOM II consortium gathered at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, for a project meeting focused on reviewing progress and planning the final phase of the project. Participants from Comenius University Bratislava, EMBL, and the University of Milano-Bicocca discussed achievements across all work packages, upcoming training activities, scientific outputs, and future collaboration opportunities.

Webinar: Run-Length Encoding the Positional Burrows–Wheeler Transform (29. 5. 2026) Lecturer: Davide Cozzi, University of Milano-Bicocca In this webinar, we focus on the Positional Burrows-Wheeler Transform (PBWT), an indexing data structure introduced by Durbin to efficiently query large haplotype panels. While traditional PBWT methods suffer from high memory consumption, we developed the mu-PBWT, a run-length encoded variant inspired by the r-index that req