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Oana Stroe

7 November 2024

Welcome: Dan Trigg

Tell us a little bit about yourself. I’m a chartered civil engineer and I’ve worked in different capacities in the building and construction space. I worked for a contractor, delivering large infrastructure projects, such as roads, tunnels, bridges all over the UK.  I also worked as a…

2024

perspectives

24 September 2024 Single Cell Expression Atlas logo on green background

Single Cell Expression Atlas 21 released

New datasets The release has 381 single-cell RNA-Seq experiments, consisting of more than 13.5 million cells from 21 different species to explore in the Single Cell Expression Atlas (SCEA). The resource now includes an entirely new class of data – externally analysed data, marked with an…

2024

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21 June 2024

Welcome: Mallory Freeberg

The new Team Leader for Human Genomics at EMBL-EBI shares how curiosity and maths shaped her career and what it takes to be a community builder.

PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES

2024

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21 September 2023

Understanding the mechanisms of enzyme catalysis

Enzymes constitute a large fraction of genomes – 20% in humans – which makes them a very important part of life. Despite decades of studies and a rich literature dedicated to understanding the reaction mechanisms of enzymes, the rules of enzyme catalysis are still not fully clear. A new…

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2023

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25 July 2023 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl Bacteria releases new annotation for all its genomes

Ensembl 110 and Ensembl Genomes 57 have introduced in-house prokaryotic gene annotation across genomes available in Ensembl Bacteria.  Since its inception, Ensembl Bacteria has imported user-submitted annotations from the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) for…

2023

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7 July 2023 InterPro logo

InterPro 95.0 released

InterPro version 95.0 and InterProScan 5.63-95.0 are now available! InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 39000 entries. InterPro version 95.0 – new features include: InterPro 95.0 covers 81.7% of UniProt Knowledgebase…

2023

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16 May 2023

Managing a bioinformatics core facility

BioImage Archive Team Leader Matthew Hartley shares his experience and tips for people interested in managing a bioinformatics core facility.

2023

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18 April 2023 Decorative image showing WormBase ParaSite logo

WormBase ParaSite 18 released

WormBase ParaSite release 18 adds largest number of new genomes and annotations since launch, as well as full integration with AlphaFold.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2023

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23 February 2023 Decorative image

New Job Dispatcher website launched

EMBL-EBI’s Software Development and Operations team is delighted to announce the launch of a brand-new Job Dispatcher website, currently in development.  The updated website provides a landing page for the Job Dispatcher services, making it easier for users to find and navigate services…

2023

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8 February 2023 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 109 has been released

Latest Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes releases bring updates to donkey and horse assemblies, and lots of new plants and metazoa.

2023

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20 December 2022

First linked dataset on Pathogens Portal

The first  cohort study linking data across categories was recently added on the Pathogens Portal Cohort Browser and is also accessible from the BioSamples browser. This pilot study comes from Erasmus Medical Centre through the ReCoDID project, one of the COVID-19 Data Platform supporting…

2022

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In tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The United Kingdom is a founding member of EMBL, and has hosted EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute since 1994. We recognise that the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have a profound impact on the country, and we extend our deepest sympathies to the Royal Family at this…

2022

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12 July 2022 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 107 has been released

The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.

2022

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7 July 2022 Single Cell Expression Atlas logo on green background

Interactive data visualisation for Single Cell Expression Atlas

Using powerful data visualisation and interactive search results across datasets allows users to explore hypotheses across a range of metadata, and discover new insights backed by expertly curated, consistently reanalysed single cell sequencing data. Searching for metadata, allows a powerful…

2022

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21 April 2022 Portrait of Guy Cochrane, Team Leader at EMBL-EBI's European Nucleotide Archive. Credit: Jeff Dowling/EMBL-EBI.

Guy Cochrane appointed Executive Director of Global Biodata Coalition

The GBC is a coalition of life sciences and biomedical research funders that aims to optimise the funding and management of biodata resources worldwide. The organisation has two priority aims: to better coordinate and share approaches for efficient management and growth of the biodata…

2022

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24 February 2022 Expression Atlas database logo - A magnifying glass highlighting a yellow section on a blue background

New Expression Atlas release in collaboration with PRIDE

New Expression Atlas release features differential-proteomics and baseline-proteomics experiments in collaboration with the PRIDE team at EMBL-EBI. This also includes new baseline DIA proteomics experiments as well as new differential proteomics datasets.  To improve reproducibility,…

2022

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28 January 2022 Collage with protein structure in the background and text in the foreground. Text says "17 organisms on the WHO’s neglected tropical diseases list and 10 organisms on its antimicrobial resistance list"

AlphaFold update – neglected tropical diseases

Latest AlphaFold database update adds 27 new organisms and almost 200,000 new protein structure predictions relevant to neglected tropical diseases and antimicrobial resistance

2022

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24 April 2020 Collage of images representing wet and dry lab research and healthcare

Why share data during a pandemic?

In March 2020, planes were grounded, streets went quiet, and our lives changed forever. But while the world came to a halt, many scientists were ramping up their efforts to understand the new virus.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

2020

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22 April 2012 Abstract image showing DNA code

A matter of priorities

Just as banks store away only the most valuable possessions in the most secure safes, cells prioritise which genes they guard most closely, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have found. The study, published online today…

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2012

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