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EMBL-EBI Training
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Delivering world-class bioinformatics training in data-driven life sciences virtually and onsite at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK.
www.ebi.ac.uk/training

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Thank you to everyone who joined us online, on-site, or on-demand in 2025. Our office, emails, and social media accounts are now closed until we return to work on Monday 5 January 2026.

We wish you a restful break and look forward to learning together in the new year.

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December 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Join us for our first #webinar of 2026, introducing EMBL-EBI data resources.

We will be joined by five resources representatives, and you will have the opportunity to pre-submit questions as well as ask them live.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Graphics detailing title, date and time of the advertised webinar: An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources, 14 January 2026, 14:30-15:30 GMT Graphic detailing the information and headshots of two of the five speakers: James Alan Blackshaw, Scientific Data Engineer (ChEMBL), EMBL-EBI and Aurelien Luciani, Project Leader (UniProt), EMBL-EBI Graphic detailing the information and headshots of two out of the five speakers: Paulyna Magaña, AlphaFold database bioinformatician (PDBe and AlphaFold), EMBL-EBI, and Louisse Mirabueno, Ensembl Outreach Officer, EMBL-EBI Graphic detailing the information and headshot of the fifth speaker, Noemi Tejera Hernandez, Scientific Database Curator at EMBL-EBI. Below, a graphic with the EMBL-EBI logo restates the title of the webinar and provide the link to the EBI Training website
December 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Applications for our #metabolomics training course will close soon in the new year. Submit yours today before the holiday rush takes over!

Course fees: from £925.00 including catering and accommodation. Financial assistance and travel grants are available.

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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All washed down with over 5,000 cups of tea!

Thank you to all the course participants, trainers, and our team members for another hugely successful year of bioinformatics training. We are immensely proud of these numbers and cannot wait to see what 2026 brings.

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2025 wrapped. EMBL-EBI Training's year in numbers. 98.9% of attendees would recommend our courses. 507 people attended our core training courses. 79, 160 views of our recorded webinars. 1, 642 attendees at industry events. 3,429,757 unique page views of our on-demand content. 14,854 new users registered for a website account. 11 ongoing grant-funded intitative in collab with our partners. 7 new team members welcomed to the EMBL-EBI Training team this year. ebi.ac.uk/training
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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This webinar series explores how AI and machine learning are being applied to biosciences research across Latin America.

The individual webinars were delivered in English or Spanish, with captions provided in the alternate language.

Watch for free now: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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EMBL-EBI Training. Applications of AI for biosciences in Latin America. Recorded webinar series. Learning time: 3 hours. Developed with BiotrAIn. BiotrAIn logo.
December 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Thank you @training.ebi.embl.org for putting together an insightful program and bringing in a very diverse group of participants, both in terms of countries and experience levels. I'm leaving with a rich support network who were all readily sharing ideas and solutions.
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Thank you to all the trainers and participants who have joined us for our last event of the year, 'Managing a bioinformatics core facility'.

If you're interested in learning from like-minded peers, sign up for alerts for the next edition: mailchi.mp/ebi/cor_alerts

#Bioinformatics #CoreFacility
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December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Thank you to all the trainers and participants who have joined us for our last event of the year, 'Managing a bioinformatics core facility'.

If you're interested in learning from like-minded peers, sign up for alerts for the next edition: mailchi.mp/ebi/cor_alerts

#Bioinformatics #CoreFacility
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A group of people stand and smile, looking up towards the camera.The EMBL-EBI logo is above them. Below the picture of the people are the words, 'Managing a bioinformatics core facility. 8 - 10 December 2025. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute. Hinxton, UK'.
December 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Congratulations to 10 years of @opentargets.org!

If you're looking for free on-demand training, here's a whole catalogue of past bioinformatics learning we've run with the team: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/on-...

#Bioinformatics #OpenTargets #OpenScience
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December 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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With the holidays fast approaching, why not take time today to submit your application for our dementia research bioinformatics training course before the deadline of 5 January 2026.

Full programme, speaker, and financial assistance info now available: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#neurosky
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December 5, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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"I love seeing people grow in their roles and bringing new ideas to life, and this position gives me the space to encourage that creativity and collaboration."

Read more about how Meredith, one of our newly promoted Senior Event Managers, is settling into her new role: www.embl.org/about/info/c...
Meredith Willmott, Senior Events Manager, EMBL-EBI Training. Image credit: Jeff Dowling/EMBL-EBI.
December 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Join us for our upcoming webinar next week, where we will trace the journey of protein data from the lab bench and scientific literature into the UniProt Knowledgebase.

Registration is free but essential:
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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December 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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One week left to apply for our virtual microscopy and machine learning bioinformatics training course using the @bioimagearchive.bsky.social.

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#ElectronMicroscopy #LightMicroscopy #MachineLearning
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November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Join our colleagues for their latest career webinar, tomorrow, 11:00 CET time zone. The event is ideal if you're looking to move from academia to a software job.

Full registration details in the post below.
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rachelcg.bsky.social Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · Nov 11
Thinking about moving from academia into IT and software?

Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):

💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)

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The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL | BioNT Career Webinars- Career Paths in Software/IT SMEs | 28 November from 11:00-12:00 (CET) The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Join us next week for an introductory #webinar where we will walk through the IntAct Portal's approach to molecular network modelling, and show how this is implemented within the IntAct Cytoscape app.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Graphics advertising the webinar "Exploring molecular interactions in-depth across species", running on 3 December 2025, 14:30-15:30 GMT Graphics showing the webinar speakers: Susie Huget, Software engineer at iMEAN and Eliot Ragueneau, Technical project lead at EMBL Grenoble. A photo accompanies each speaker's graphics.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Meet Sophie, one of our newly promoted Senior Event Managers, and get to know what motivates her and her team, and what she’d like the future of events to look like.

www.embl.org/about/info/c...

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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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A huge thank you to everyone that joined us for our annual 'Genome bioinformatics' training course.

Wish you were here? Sign up for alerts for the 2026 edition of the course: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Genomics #Bioinformatics #NextGenerationSequencing
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EMBL-EBI course. Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing. 17 - 21 November 2025. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute. Hinxton, UK. A group of people sit outside on stone benches in front of a glass fronted office building. They are wearing winter coats and smiling to the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ICYMI: catch up with our pangenomics webinar series. The recordings are now available on-demand: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Webinars were given by: Raymond Cheng, Leanne Haggerty, @samuelhorsfield.bsky.social, Alexander Leonard, Neil MacAlasdair, and @camillemrcht.bsky.social.

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Webinar series at EMBL-EBI. Concepts, methods, and resources in pangeomics. Going beyond the reference genome. Recordings now available. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Join us in 2026 and learn how to use computational tools to extract biological insight from omics datasets: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Location: EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Course fee: from £925.00 including catering and accommodation. Financial assistance is available.

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Course at EMBL-EBI. Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight. 11 - 15 May 2026. Hinxton | United Kingdom. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Always a pleasure to host you @chiarabatini.bsky.social and the 'Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing' course.

Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the Wellcome Genome Campus we are so proud to be located on.

#Bioinformatics #UKScience #CambridgeScience
chiarabatini.bsky.social Chiara Batini @chiarabatini.bsky.social · Nov 17
Back in Hinxton for our annual @training.ebi.embl.org genome bionformatics course, loving the campus on this sunny morning 😍
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Are you based in Latin America and looking to develop your AI knowledge for the biosciences?

Applications are now open for our multi-location course, to be held in the region from 20 – 24 April 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Application deadline: 28 November 2025

#AI #Bioinformatics
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November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Join our free webinar with UniProt on 20 November for a basic introduction of programmatic access to UniProt using Python, with examples also available in R.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Bioinformatics #Python #ProteinData #ProteinSequence
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Webinar at EMBL-EBI. Accessing UniProt programmatically for students. 20 November 2025. 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Emily Bowler-Barnett, Senior Scientific Curator, EMBL-EBI and Daniel Rice, Senior Software Engineer, EMBL-EBI are the pictured speakers.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Join us next year for an introduction to metabolomics through lectures and hands-on sessions, using publicly available data, software, and tools.

Course dates: 27 April – 1 May 2026
Location: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Apply by 11 January 2026.

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Course at EMBL-EBI. Introduction to metabolomics analysis. 27 April – 1 May 2026. Hinxton, UK. EMBL-EBI logo.
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Last chance to apply for an 'Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation'.

Course location: virtual, UK time zone
Course fee: From £240.00, financial assistance is available
Deadline to apply: 9 November 2025

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#RNAseq #Transcriptomics #Bioinformatics

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training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Aug 5
Gain an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools, and resources used in RNA sequencing and transcriptomics.

Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation will run virtually from 9 – 13 February 2026:
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Course at EMBL-EBI. Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation. 9 – 13 February 2026. Virtual. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Join our next webinar on 5 November at 14:30 GMT to discuss pangenome graphs and their applications.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Discover the full webinar series on pagenomics here: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Graphic presenting the "Pangenome graphs as a new paradigm in comparative genomics" webinar, part of a webinar series at EMBL-EBI. The webinar will run on 5 November 2025, 14.30-15.30 GMT. The speaker name is Sam Horsfield, from EMBL-EBI. A photo of the speaker is shown at the bottom right of the graphic.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Reminder: applications close for our single-cell RNA-seq with Python course next week.

Course dates: 2 – 6 February 2026
Course fee: from £240.00, funding is available.
Location: virtual, UK time zone

Apply by 2 November 2025: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Python #SingleCell #Bioinformatics
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training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Jul 25
Join us virtually for 'Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python' from 2 – 6 February 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

This course covers the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data using Python and command-line tools.

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Course at EMBL-EBI. Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python. 2 – 6 February 2026. Virtual course. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM