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Colman O'Cathail
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ENA Project Lead & Product Owner ‪@ebi.embl.org‬ | Bioinformatics services and infrastructure | @enasequence.bsky.social
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All BGE genomes are openly available at the @enasequence.bsky.social - and can be accessed and downloaded by anyone, anywhere in the world. Head to the ERGA Data Portal to browse the data produced by #BGE and other #ERGA associated initiatives: portal.erga-biodiversity.eu/home 🖥️
ERGA Data Portal
portal.erga-biodiversity.eu
October 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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🎉We are excited to launch the Data Hubs Portal! 🎉
This portal provides an interface for the Data Hubs at the ENA. To find out more about the Data Hubs Portal, visit the portal: www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/datahubs/ or see this post from EMBL-EBI: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u....
ENA Data Hubs Portal
www.ebi.ac.uk
March 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Post-Doc position in AMR and bioinformatics at UCD. Deadline 17th January. Join our multidisciplinary team tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge research. Job ref: 017896 here: ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/
January 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I'm putting together a Microbial Bioinformatics starter pack to help get everyone connected in our community. Let me know if there are any bluesky users to be added and share so that twitter refugees can tune back in to the fantastic world microbes go.bsky.app/3ezLo7e
January 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Proud to be part of the family of resources that brings such immense value to the global scientific community! Check out the survey results 👇
In this year's user survey, 89% of respondents said that EMBL-EBI data resources empowered them to undertake work that would otherwise not have been possible 💪

Big thank you to everyone who filled in the survey - we appreciate your input!

Explore further findings: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/a...
Fuelling discovery together: 2024 user survey learnings
Blog post by Eleni Tzampatzopoulou, EMBL-EBI Impact Manager In summer 2024, EMBL-EBI ran a user survey, inviting our community to let us know how they use the open data resources we jointly manage wit...
www.ebi.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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ENA is having its annual facilities day event! We kicked off the day getting our guests to break into groups an designing some flags they felt represented their groups!
November 28, 2024 at 1:23 PM
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You may have noticed that we have A LOT of posts on our feed. We have imported all our Tweets into BlueSky to make it easier for users to find their favourite posts!

Please be aware, although these were all posted today, they will be marked with a "date archived" date when they were originally made
November 27, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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For those of you who don’t know us yet...

🟢 We’re one of the six sites of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory @embl.org
🟢 We manage the world’s most comprehensive suite of open data resources and tools for the life sciences

Nice to meet you! 👋
🧬 🖥️ #MolBiol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rwrw...
EMBL-EBI: the home of big data in biology
YouTube video by European Bioinformatics Institute - EMBL-EBI
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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Not enough bioinformatics in your Bluesky feed? We’ve got you covered. Follow us for our latest news, exciting life science research, updates from our data resources, new tools and training resources.

Haven't heard of EMBL-EBI? Take a look at what we’re working on. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/our-im...
Our impact
We provide open data that helps scientists understand life and that informs solutions to real-world problems, such as infectious diseases, climate change and food security.
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 19, 2024 at 2:18 PM
To all my extended colleagues across the extended science social-verse, @enasequence.bsky.social is also available to be followed. Content and posts pending planning!
November 18, 2024 at 1:27 PM
The ability to post GIFs makes BlueSky the new leading social media platform. No question about it.
The Office Steve Carell GIF
ALT: The Office Steve Carell GIF
media.tenor.com
April 27, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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Come do a PhD with me at University of Glasgow.
3-year fully funded PhD for UK students.
Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823
December 11, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Great day today discussing open data with ENA users today, getting improvement ideas for the service. It’s amazing the quantity of genomic data out there in the open, and it’s amazing to hear what people do with it.
November 30, 2023 at 2:19 PM
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Our latest paper is out now. The brilliant Chris Connor’s entire PhD in one paper. And I hope a new avenue of research opened in MDR E. coli

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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October 18, 2023 at 6:49 AM
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Big congrats to Dr Kathleen O Connor! The latest PhD from our lab www.thedigglelab.com/people.html
October 13, 2023 at 6:08 PM
Hi! New to BlueSky but I'm the Infection Biology Project Manager at the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). I work on all things relating to pathogen nucleotide data and metadata standards, plus coordinating dataflow. #HiSciSky #AcademicSky
October 12, 2023 at 1:52 PM