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EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology. https://www.ebi.ac.uk/
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Applications closing soon for our internship programme aimed at Master's students at French universities 🇫🇷

Are you studying bioinformatics, computer science or statistics? Check it out!

Deadline: 7 December 2025

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...

A collaboration with the French Embassy in London.
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The recently-announced Open Psychiatry Project is the first initiative to jointly analyse UK mental health research data

Findings from this project will be integrated into the Open Targets Platform to help identify and prioritise the most promising therapeutic targets.
Quote accompanying a photo of Ellen McDonagh, Open Targets Translational Informatics Director and EMBL-EBI co-lead for the Open Psychiatry Project: The Open Psychiatry Project will translate the power of omics data into identifying potential new treatments for mental health conditions. This is the first major initiative to bring together mental health data for multiple stakeholders in an accessible way, and analysing this information collectively is a key step towards finding new targets for drug development.
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Millions of people are affected by mental health conditions, yet progress in treatment has been slow.

The Open Psychiatry Project aims to change that with a secure platform linking genetic and clinical mental health data.

@cam.ac.uk @opentargets.org

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New data initiative accelerates discovery and personalised care for mental health conditions
EMBL-EBI receives UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding for enhancing and translating mental-health omics data into the Open Targets Pl...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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The UK Government Department for Science, Innovation & Technology published its national AI for Science strategy.

We’re pleased that EMBL-EBI is highlighted for the strength of our data foundations and look forward to seeing how this strategy supports future discoveries.
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November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Antimicrobial resistance is putting public health under pressure.

Find out how PopPIPE, a bioinformatics tool developed at EMBL-EBI, is helping Public Health Scotland track outbreaks, reveal transmission links, and respond faster.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/r...

#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR
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Case study: EMBL-EBI tool enables genomic outbreak surveillance for NHS Scotland
A new genomic analysis tool developed at EMBL-EBI, is helping NHS Scotland tackle antimicrobial resistance and improve outbreak response.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Congratulations to everyone receiving @ukri.org BBSRC Strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) funding 🎉

Find out more about the projects funded including ‘The semantic rules of gene regulatory landscapes’ involving EMBL-EBI researchers and colleagues.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing health threat, making infections harder to treat and complicating routine medical care.

EMBL-EBI’s new AMR portal brings together laboratory resistance data and bacterial genomes in one open platform.

#WAAW2025 #ActOnAMR

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A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data
New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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🔔 Join the #ERGAPlenary next Monday to learn about #biodiversity genomes at @enasequence.bsky.social & the #ERGA Data Portal - talk by Joana Pauperio and Alexey Sokolov from @ebi.embl.org
📅 17/11 at 15:00 CET
🔗 www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/biodive...

#Data #genomes #ENA @ebpgenome.bsky.social
Biodiversity Reference Genomes at ENA and the ERGA Data Portal
At this month's ERGA Plenary meeting, on Monday, November 17 at 15:00 CET, Joana Paupério and Alexey Sokolov will present about Biodiversity Reference Genomes at ENA (European Nucleotide Archive) and ...
www.erga-biodiversity.eu
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Join us tomorrow to explore Ensembl resources for pangenomes! Leanne Haggerty is presenting on Ensembl annotation for human, model organism, livestock & crop plant pangenomes.

Free registration: zurl.co/3sSUJ 

Full series:zurl.co/XrVdc
#Pangenomes #Ensembl
November 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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AlphaFold Database users can now temporarily integrate and visualise their own protein annotations, making the resource a more interactive and personalised platform for structural bioinformatics analysis.

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#AlphaFold
AlphaFold Database launches custom annotations feature
The AlphaFold Database (AlphaFold DB) has introduced a new functionality that enables users to integrate and visualise custom sequence annotations. These annotations are processed in the browser for t...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Meet Jana Broecker 🇩🇪 who helps build bridges between EMBL-EBI and industry.

As a Senior Scientific Officer in our Industry Partnerships team, Jana develops opportunities for knowledge sharing and technology transfer, focusing on bioinformatics and data sciences.

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We are EMBL: Jana Broecker on building bridges between industry and academia
How EMBL-EBI is building public-private partnerships and knowledge exchange opportunities between industry and academia.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🚨 NEWS! The GWAS Catalog Diagram is back up! 🚨
Smoother, faster loading for filtered views!
🗺️ Explore now 👉 www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/diagram
Tell us what you think! Are there any features you would like? Help us to make it useful for the #gwas community
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the millions of viral genomes coming in overwhelmed traditional methods for data analysis.

Find out how SPRTA, a new tool, provides a fast, scalable way to measure confidence of phylogenetic trees, helping scientists track outbreaks.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...
SPRTA: a smarter way to measure evolution uncertainty
A new method from EMBL-EBI and collaborators offers fast, easy-to-interpret confidence scores for phylogenetic trees for pandemic preparedness.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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As new human assemblies become available on beta.ensembl.org - which human reference genome will you choose? This article explores the question with insights from Ensembl’s own Fergal Martin - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#HumanGenomics #Pangenomes #ReferenceGenomes
Choose your human genome reference wisely - Nature Methods
Scientists can choose between multiple human genome references, and a pangenome reference is coming. Deciding what to use when is not quite straightforward.
www.nature.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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UniProt is changing its reference proteomes resource.

Reference proteomes will remain in UniProtKB, while others will move to UniParc.

Read more about these changes:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

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Uniprot is a collaboration between EMBL-EBI, @sib.swiss & the Protein Information Resource.
Changes to UniProt proteomes
UniProt, the data resource for protein sequence and function information, is making major changes to its proteomes resource and to the UniProt Knowledgebase. UniProt has developed a new workflow that ...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Bonjour! Masters students in France 🇫🇷, we’ve got an internship for you, in collaboration with the French Embassy in London.

Aimed at students of computer science, statistics or bioinformatics.

Deadline: 7 December 2025

Find out more and apply:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/i...
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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DECIPHER version 11.35 has been released. See the new features at www.deciphergenomics.org #variantinterpretation
October 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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📣 ELIXIR, @eurobioimaging.bsky.social, @instruct-eric.bsky.social & @embl.org joined forces to establish 🙌 the #EOSC Life Sciences Connect Node: https://loom.ly/9BLk_tY

#EOSC_Federation
October 27, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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For over 20 years, the mouse model organism has helped scientists uncover the biology behind human health and disease.

But the mouse reference genomes still have missing pieces.
The first collection of telomere-to-telomere mouse genomes are now available for two key mouse strains.
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October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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🚀InterPro 107.0 is live!
✨Updated to Pfam 38.0
✨1,068 new InterPro entries
Explore the latest annotations and discover new protein insights.
Explore it now: interpro.ebi.ac.uk
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Growth charts guide child healthcare, but standard charts often don’t reflect the growth patterns of children with rare conditions.

A new method, LMSz, creates condition-specific growth charts and is being integrated in @deciphergenomics.bsky.social

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New method to bring growth charts to children with rare genetic conditions through DECIPHER
A new method for building growth charts for children with rare diseases is being integrated into DECIPHER to help clinicians and families understand child development.
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October 22, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Who owns our knowledge and who gets to reuse it?
Our licence choices define how knowledge is shared and reused.

Learn more by watching our full webinar recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr6v...

@creativecommons.bsky.social
#OAweek #AcademicChatter #PhDsky 🧪
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🎓 Not all open licences are created equal!

Taylor Campbell from @creativecommons.bsky.social broke down key licence types👇

🔓 Most freedom: CC BY
⛔️ Least: CC BY-NC-ND

Your licence = your reuse rights. Choose wisely to boost impact & reach!

#ChooseOpenWebinar for live updates 💡
#MedLib #PhDsky
Image taken from Creative Commons slide dec in What happens when you choose closed? webinar 09July 2025. Creative Commons Licence Term Options Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to you, the creator. ShareAlike (SA): Adaptations must be shared under the same terms. NonCommercial (NC): Only noncommercial use of your work is permitted, not primarily intended for monetary compensation. NoDerivatives (ND): No derivatives or adaptations of your work are permitted. CCBY has the most freedoms followed by CC-BY-SA, CC-BY-NC, CC-BY-ND, and CC-BY-NC-ND as the least freedom
October 21, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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AlphaFold DB v6 (synced with UniProt 2025_03) is live! Here are the details:
Totals v4 → v6: 241,070,489 entries.
Since v4: +65,711,653 added, 39,324,993 removed, 276,539 changed (in sequence), 175,082,297 unchanged (metadata refresh, relabelled v6). Details 👇
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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🚀 Expression Atlas Release 43 is live!
🧬 New Marker Gene View for all baseline (RNA & protein) experiments - instantly spot tissue- or condition-specific expression patterns.
🔎 Plus, a new technology filter for faster dataset discovery.
🔗ebi.ac.uk/gxa

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Gene Markers showing in GTEx experiment.
October 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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From magnetic tapes to exabytes of data, Rolf Apweiler has seen it all!

As Rolf retires after more than four decades at EMBL, he shares his insights and favourite stories, including how all of EMBL-EBI’s data used to fit in the back of a car.

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October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM