Section: Dissemination

Popular science writing

The members of IBIS are actively involved in the dissemination of research results in systems biology and bioinformatics to a wider, non-specialist audience.

François Rechenmann is a regular contributor to La Recherche [15] and coordinated in 2009 a special issue of DocSciences entitled "Le numérique et les sciences du vivant" (http://www.docsciences.fr/ ). Delphine Ropers and Hidde de Jong made contributions to the special issue [14] . François Rechenmann is also involved in the development of an In Silico biology e-learning environment (ISee), which explains the principles of the main bioinformatics algorithms and illustrates their use on real data (Section  5.2 ). He is leader of the editorial committee of the Interstices website (http://interstices.info ). Interstices offers pedagogic presentations of research themes and activities in the computer science domain.