Dear Bio-IT community, Before the end of the year, we would like to take the time to thank you all for your support, participation and contributions. We thankfully recognise that Bio-IT - a project spontaneously born within the EMBL Heidelberg community - still preserves its essence and aim. It is and always has been a community initiative, a way to join forces and share knowledge and ideas, reach common objectives, support each other.

A lot has happened in the past few weeks, as everyone at EMBL has been adapting to working from home. It’s been a busy time for the Bio-IT community: as computational researchers and support staff, most of our community members are able to continue working on most of their normal tasks/research, the only major change being that they do that from home. Many such members are facing additional challenges, though, from struggling with reduced Internet connection speeds to balancing their work tasks with the need to care for children and other family members.