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Congratulations, @ewanbirney.bsky.social for winning this year’s International ‘Lombardy is Research’ prize!

As genomic data surges, so does the need for centralised, well-curated resources such as @ensembl.org. EMBL-EBI's new Genomics Technology Infrastructure Team Lead, Alexey Sokolov, will take the helm of the platform's new release, supporting more genomes than ever. www.embl.org/news/people-...

Good AI models require lots of high-quality training data. Jo McEntyre, Interim Director of EMBL-EBI, highlights how open, expert-curated data is driving the next generation of life sciences: from AlphaFold to AI-assisted data curation.

Open data resources are essential for modern biology and for accelerating AI innovation. Discover how €57M from @ec.europa.eu will support GENCODE, UniProt, & @europepmc.org www.embl.org/news/embl-an...

📣 A new whitepaper sets out a vision for the Federated European Genome-phenome Archive (Federated EGA or #FEGA) and its role in the rapidly developing European and global ecosystem 🌍 for human #genomic and #healthdata. Read the news 👉 https://loom.ly/9dKqp8I #1MGenomes

We often get asked what biocurators do so we quizzed our colleague Emily Bowler-Barnett about her role in the UniProt team. We also explored why biocuration is critical to open science, how AI is changing the field & how Emily's dog got her name 🐕

Human-made chemicals are all around us.🌎 Most are likely harmless, while others can seriously harm our health. EMBL-EBI Research Group Leader Jess Ewald @ewaldlab.org shares how her team uses AI to find out how chemicals in the environment could lead to human diseases. #EMBL_AI

Want to know what’s next for variation data? Join us to explore the latest EVA developments, hear community insights, & help steer the EVA roadmap! 𝟮𝟮 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 | 𝟭𝟰:𝟬𝟬–𝟭𝟲:𝟬𝟬 𝗕𝗦𝗧 | 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗭𝗼𝗼𝗺 Registration is now open: embl-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Closing the loop for reproducible science: 🧬 Data ➔ 🤖 Models ➔ 📏 Benchmarks As AI transforms biology, EMBL-EBI is building the infrastructure to ensure models are as rigorous as the data behind them. What’s your biggest challenge when validating AI models? www.embl.org/news/science...

Who funds UK health research? Where? And how is investment changing? MRC and Europe PMC are building a dashboard to make UK health research funding data easier to find, compare and reuse. Read more: blog.europepmc.org/2026/09/buil...

🚨Two weeks left to apply! There’s still time to apply for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme. Choose from one of our available projects or propose your own. Deadline: 27 September. www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

Cancer research will shift from tracking how tumors grew to predicting how they will evolve in the future. Here is how our Research Group Leader @timcoorens.bsky.social sees the field evolving over the next 25 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CancerResearch

AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) scores, developed by Google DeepMind, predict how likely variants across the whole human genome are to impact gene regulation. AVI scores are available in the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor to enable easy access into variant analysis workflows.

Is there a ‘right’ age to start a PhD? Our PhD fellow Anna Foix doesn't think so. Anna pivoted from software to academia. Once worried that her computer science background wouldn’t fit a life in research, she has since realised it’s a huge asset, as AI becomes more central to biology.

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 📣 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more and apply here: bit.ly/4x9Edss

Are you looking for a research opportunity that combines wet and dry-lab experience? Then don’t miss your chance to apply for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme. Applications close on 27 September. 📌 Learn more & apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

Are you looking for a career that allows you to improve the core facilities, data services and research infrastructures that life sciences depend on? Don’t miss your chance to apply for the ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme! Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Meet Rajat Bhatnagar 🇮🇳, Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at @europepmc.org. Rajat builds tools to automatically detect software bugs before changes go live. Learn about test automation and how rock & folk-pop covers are a perfect counterbalance to debugging 🎸 www.embl.org/news/perspec...

Explore genes & transcripts with the @Ensembl Feature Explorer! Using human BRCA2 as an example, learn how to explore transcripts, exon structure & sequences, external references and orthologues across species. zurl.co/Q5YoZ #Ensembl #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Every rare disease diagnosis relies on open data most people never see. Our new impact report explores how Genomics England's sequencing pipeline depends on EMBL-EBI’s open data resources. 🖥️🧬 s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202... @genomicsengland.bsky.social @ensembl.org

Redesigning a website with the help of AI: 👍 or 👎? Find out what our @rfamdb.bsky.social colleagues made of the experience. We’d love to hear your thoughts and experience in the comments. @rnacentral.bsky.social www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Explore genomes with the new Ensembl Data Platform! In this demo, see how to: Select a genome Find information about your selected genome Watch the demo and start exploring: zurl.co/qtSwQ #Ensembl #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Meet Sam Shingles 🇬🇧, who helps connect local communities with the world of genomics and biodata. As a Public Engagement Officer, Sam brings a unique perspective from astrophysics, focusing on demystifying AI and ensuring public engagement is a two-way conversation. www.embl.org/news/people-...

Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

📣 We're recruiting for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme! ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine wet and dry-lab experience. Learn more & apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

Five years ago, the #AlphaFold Database, a collaboration with Google DeepMind, made predicted protein structures free for everyone to use. Today, the database contains over 260 million structure predictions and is used by more than 3.5 million researchers in 190 countries around the world.

What if you could predict your chance of developing a disease years before symptoms appear? An AI model can estimate long-term disease risk for more than 1,000 medical conditions and could help inform how a person's health changes over time. #EMBL_AI

The annual DECIPHER user survey is now available ! Please, help us to improve DECIPHER by taking 5 minutes to answer. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... This is a new survey so don’t hesitate to answer it even if you had completed it last year.

Out now in Nature Metabolism! 🖥️🧬 An Open Targets project has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) www.nature.com/articles/s42...

DECIPHER version 11.40 has been released. See the new features at www.deciphergenomics.org #variantinterpretation

Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? We have two biological curators in the ChEMBL team, and over the course of this week, we'll look at typical activities one day at a time. We begin with Monday… chembl.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-we... #cheminformatics #chembl

⚡ @cbioportal.bsky.social lands at EGA ⚡ The widely used platform, designed to simplify the exploration of complex cancer genomic data, is now connected to EGA! Discover what this means for researchers in our latest blog post: 🔗 blog.ega-archive.org/cbioportal

Meet Dal Nijjer, 🇬🇧 Product Manager & Coordinator at Europe PMC. Dal went from bookselling to helping researchers navigate millions of scientific papers. Discover how Dal’s team uses AI to make literature search more intuitive and why he loves bouldering 🧗& interior design 🛋️ tinyurl.com/3kk2m2mc

What happens when you take a Nobel Prize-winning AI and make its predictions free for everyone to use? A new independent report shows that papers using the AlphaFold Database span a wider range of fields than those using the algorithm alone. s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202...

DECIPHER v11.39 is now available, featuring N=1 variant assessments and UKCGG clinical guidelines. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... @deciphergenomics.bsky.social

It was an honour to welcome the First Lady of Lithuania, Diana Nausėdienė, and H.E. Ambassador Asta Radikaitė to EMBL-EBI, together with colleagues from the Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania, the Embassy of Lithuania in the UK and representatives of Lithuanian universities. 🇱🇹

Ensembl 116 + Ensembl Genomes 63 are out! Explore new pig, cattle, and oat genomes, updated alignments and new VEP plugins It’s a milestone! Our last on the current platform. New data from here on is via beta.ensembl.org More info on our blog: zurl.co/MrJ2A