We’re deeply grateful to our funders, including the @embl.org member states, @ukri.org, @wellcometrust.bsky.social, @ec.europa.eu, the NIH and others for their ongoing trust and support.
How do you build data infrastructure that powers the global life sciences?
Meet Simone Vegh 🇧🇷 our Major Initiatives Programme Manager. She enables long-term funding partnerships that support open data, resilient infrastructure and scientific impact.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
#openscience
Welcome, Sarah Dickinson Hyams!
EMBL's new Head of People and Culture Development brings a passion for equality, diversity, and inclusion, plus a love for unlikely inspirational sources, including Winnie the Pooh!
Learn more: www.embl.org/news/people-...
Catch EMBL-EBI's @robdfinn.bsky.social on this week's BBC More or Less podcast.
UK listeners can tune in here 👇
Applications for EMBL’s International PhD programme close on 9 March. There’s still time to apply!
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
#PhDLife #bioinformatics @embl.org
Is a PhD the next step in your career?
@jackietoussaint.bsky.social is a PhD fellow at EMBL-EBI using bioinformatics to study pathogenic bacteria.
Read more about Jacqueline PhD experience so far
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/jobs/c... @johnlees.bacpop.org
This #RareDiseaseDay, we’re highlighting how open data sharing supports diagnosis, research, and families living with rare conditions.
Watch to find out how access to rare disease data through @deciphergenomics.bsky.social can help families better understand their children’s rare conditions.
The BioAIrepo collection is currently in a pilot phase, and we would love to hear from you about your experience using it.
📩 Submit your feedback at biostudies@ebi.ac.uk
Find out more and how you can submit, share, and access AI models alongside their training data using this new EMBL-EBI platform.
ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/BioAIrepo
📢 We want your feedback on our new pilot project for sharing AI models in life science research.
Finding, reusing and citing machine learning models remains a major challenge in the life sciences.
BioAIrepo is here to help.
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We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders!
We offer:
🔬 Core funding
💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure
👩🏽🔬A network of world-leading scientists
…and much more.
Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org
As AI is transforming science, robust benchmarks become essential.
BEACON is a global initiative advancing standards to evaluate AI using transparent benchmarks and #opendata.
#OpenScience #AI #DrugDiscovery @conscience-network.bsky.social @juliosaezrod.bsky.social
conscience.ca/news/introdu...
Mentoring doesn’t just shape careers, it shapes people’s lives.
Our Director Emeritus Janet Thornton shares with @natmethods.nature.com what mentoring has meant during her career.
💬 What’s the most valuable mentoring advice you’ve received or shared?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big thank you to our data providers for trusting us with their data 🙏
- AllTheBacteria
- Wheeler Lab at the University of Edinburgh
- Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) developed by the @martinsteinegger.bsky.social lab at Seoul National University
- Viro3D developed by @cvrinfo.bsky.social
The AlphaFold Database, jointly developed with Google DeepMind, now contains datasets from specialist communities.
This includes rich datasets for microbes, viruses & parasites associated with tropical diseases.
Explore the new datasets in the AlphaFold Database.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
The EMBL International PhD programme is now open for applications.
The deadline is 9 March.
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
#PhDLife #bioinformatics
Interested in pursuing a PhD at EMBL-EBI?
@atsocf.bsky.social 🇮🇹 is one of our PhD fellows. He works on improving #AlphaFold protein structure predictions.
Find out more about his PhD experience:
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
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Welcome, Alex Picchianti, our new Head of Infrastructure Services!
Find out how his experience working with UK national IT systems will help shape the infrastructure that powers EMBL-EBI’s data and services.
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
🐟📊 Tiny fish, big lessons: medaka fish help scientists explore how genes and environment interact. Results helped explain complex traits in other species, including humans.
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#Genomics #Bioinformatics #GeneEnvironment
We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology.
Are you generating more research ideas than you can explore? Lead cutting-edge AI & biology research at EMBL-EBI.
Apply by 11 April 2026: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ScienceCareers @ewaldlab.org @embl.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, genomic studies generated huge amounts of data that were difficult to analyse.
Our researchers developed new methods to accurately reconstruct the phylogenetic tree of more than 2 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes 🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@nicolademaio.bsky.social
EMBL-EBI Training. Sustainable computing in science: an introduction to the environmental impacts of computational research. This course has been developed in collaboration with the Cambridge Sustainable Computing Lab at the University of Cambridge. It was supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust Foundation and the University of Cambridge.
Have you ever paused and wondered about the many different ways in which computing infrastructure and activities impact the environment?
@loiclnlg.bsky.social and our own Flaminia Zane have created a free guide dedicated to sustainable computing in science: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl...
🧬🖥️📊🌱
Leonie joined EMBL as part of the International PhD Programme, now open for applications.
Find out more about the programme and how to apply: www.embl.org/about/info/e...
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Meet Leonie Johanna Lorenz 🇩🇪, a Predoctoral Fellow at EMBL-EBI who is bringing mathematical modelling to microbes.
Find out more about how Leonie’s passion for modelling patterns extends from bacterial evolution to sewing 🧵
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
🚀 InterPro 108.0 is live!
✨ Updated to Pfam 38.1 and NCBIFam 18.0
✨ 1,911 InterPro entries
Explore the latest annotations and discover new protein insights.
Explore it now: www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/
IntAct release 252 is out! 1,787,152 binary interactions from 23,889 manually curated publications www.ebi.ac.uk/intact/about... (in sync with UniProt release 2025_04)
DECIPHER version 11.37 has been released. See the new features at www.deciphergenomics.org #variantinterpretation
Perturbation Catalogue home page showing key metrics
The Perturbation Catalogue is live! 🧬🔎🖥️
It aims to bring genetic perturbation data into one curated, harmonised, and discoverable platform.
Take a look! www.ebi.ac.uk/perturbation...
EMBL-EBI Training. Perturbation Catalogue: democratising genetic perturbation data for research and drug discovery. New recorded webinar. Learning time: 35 minutes. Aleksandr Zakirov. Biocurator. EMBL-EBI.
Discover how to use the redesigned Perturbation Catalogue in our how-to video: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
Let us introduce you to genetic perturbations, the challenges associated with data accessibility and standardisation, and how the Perturbation Catalogue aims to address these issues.
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