11 June 2026
A milestone release: This is the final release on the current Ensembl platforms. From summer 2026, all new data will be accessible from the new site at beta.ensembl.org, which hosts over 5,200 genomes across animals, plants, bacteria, archaea, and fungi. The current Ensembl platforms will remain…
2026
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18 May 2026
EMBL-EBI enables global productivity gains worth £11.8bn per year and powers AI-driven science and innovation at scale.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS
2026
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5 March 2026
As a Major Initiatives Programme Manager, Simone Vegh works closely with EMBL-EBI’s funders to transform the institute’s technical infrastructure.
4 December 2025
EMBL-EBI and leading UK universities will use zebrafish to study interaction and coordination between gene enhancers in the genome
27 November 2025
An extensive collection of peer-reviewed publications describing developmental disorders has been identified and integrated into G2P to help clinicians and researchers better understand the genetic basis of these conditions.
2025
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15 October 2025
ChEMBL 36 release release brings the total number of drug targets to 17, 803 and provides access to 2.8 million distinct compounds.
2025
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8 October 2025
New report explores opportunities and blockers for building global biodata partnerships and encouraging participation from scientists in low resource settings.
1 July 2025
EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) manages the world’s most comprehensive suite of open data resources for the life sciences. Millions of scientists worldwide rely on these data resources. The breadth of usage has been expanding year on year, as researchers generate increasing…
5 March 2025
New EMBL-EBI project explores the use of a concept developed in aerospace engineering to support rare disease research, diagnosis, and treatment.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2025
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27 January 2025
Tim Cezard talks about the importance of genetic variation data and the move from biology to infrastructure
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2025
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8 October 2024
EMBL-EBI’s microbiome data resource MGnify produces a valuable trove of protein sequence data through its ongoing analysis of microbiome derived data. Two new MGnify Proteins web resources make this dataset easily accessible and searchable, both for large queries across the entire database…
2024
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28 May 2024
The latest DECIPHER release includes AlphaMissense scores, links to the Open Targets Platform and more.
2024
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21 May 2024
The integration enables researchers to easily access AI-generated scores estimating how likely genetic variants are to be pathogenic
2024
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20 May 2024
EMBL-EBI asks users to fill in a services survey to help shape the future of the open data resources managed by the institute
7 May 2024
María Cerezo talks about her role as Scientific Curator, how she combines it with her position as co-chair of the Staff Association, and what she believes has been EMBL's biggest achievement in its first 50 years.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2024
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