In the era of data-driven biology, integrating information from different resources is essential yet often challenging. The BioChemGraph project addresses this challenge by creating infrastructure that consolidates structural, functional, and biochemical annotations for small molecules and their…
2024
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Ensembl 113 brings major gene and regulatory feature annotation updates in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse).
2024
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Science & Technology Creators of AI system AlphaFold receive 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
2024
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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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People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI's new Head of Research shares his plans and priorities.
2024
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Where to start when thinking about the sustainability of informatics projects
2023
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EMBLetc Large language models are changing the way we carry out scientific data curation, annotation, and research, setting the stage for a more efficient understanding of scientific literature
2023
Users no longer need to download large datasets with the new galleries feature
2023
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The latest Expression Atlas release is now live and contains a wider range of RNA-seq and proteomics datasets.
2023
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Construction begins on EMBL-EBI's new building named after Janet Thornton.
2023
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Science & Technology A third of all known proteins are either completely or partially unstructured. EMBL scientists contributed to a new set of guidelines – Minimum Information About a Disorder Experiment (MIADE) – that will help researchers share data on unstructured proteins in a more useful way and will enable…
2023
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New framework to improve the FAIRness of clinical and molecular datasets
2023
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Science & Technology HoloFood, the first consistent collection of multiomic data about chicken and salmon gut microbiomes, set to enable the development of better animal feeds.
2023
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Postdoctoral researcher Carolin Sauer is leveraging long-read sequencing to develop new detection methods for various cancers.
2023
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Science & Technology Understanding chromothripsis offers insights into how cancer develops.
2023
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Why open data from model organisms is essential for rare disease research.
2023
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The Open Global Data Citation Corpus will become a central place for research data citations, and include accession numbers supplied by Europe PMC.
2023
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
2023
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Lab MattersScience & Technology EMBL is one of the partners of this project that aims to accelerate drug discovery and development, bringing in expertise from EMBL Grenoble and EMBL-EBI.
2023
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Open data played a pivotal role in the development of the AlphaFold AI. The same open principles now apply to AlphaFold predictions.
2023
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ConnectionsLab Matters New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
2023
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Science & Technology Open Targets is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and prioritise drug targets.
2023
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Open data resources that enable global research and development recognised by the Global Biodata Coalition.
2022
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Unveiling a useful tool for understanding human lung development.
2022
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Our experts discuss the importance of open science for food security and preserving global biodiversity.
2022
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Data continues to be available in BioStudies.
2022
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Cell biologist Anthony Hyman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were announced among 25 Breakthrough Prize recipients
2022
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People & Perspectives Ewan Birney, Deputy Director General of EMBL and Director of EMBL-EBI, reveals the key factors that enabled AlphaFold to change the world of biology.
2022
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Science & Technology AlphaFold database offers a look at 3D protein universe.
2022
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The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.
2022
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Funding set to support data resources for key areas of antimicrobial resistance, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity loss
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Janet Thornton, the inaugural winner of the FEBS Journal Open Science Award, explains the importance and impact of open science.
2022
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Science & Technology How text mining collaborations benefit our research, data resources, and the wider scientific community.
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
2022
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Science & Technology Virginie Uhlmann shares her tips for using deep learning for bioimage analysis in the life sciences.
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
2022
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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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Science & Technology Researchers from the MANE collaboration bring you the most comprehensive human genome annotation dataset to date.
2022
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Science & Technology Zamin Iqbal and his team are working with researchers all over the globe to help put a stop to Tuberculosis
2022
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Science & Technology Our researchers highlight their contributions to the Darwin Tree of Life project and how new genome annotations helps to further biodiversity research
2022
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Science & Technology The African BioGenome Project aims to safeguard biodiversity and build bioinformatics capacity across Africa
2022
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Science & Technology Deep learning models can improve protein annotations and has helped expand the Pfam database.
2022
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Connections Open Targets, a consortium focused on drug target identification, prioritisation, and validation, announced today that Pfizer has joined as a partner.
2022
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Science & Technology An exploration of where in the world genomics methods are applied and where the data are used.
2022
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Science & Technology On track to reach an ambitious goal of 3,000 genomes sequenced by the end of 2022, what’s next for the Earth Biogenome Project?
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Melissa Harrison joins EMBL-EBI as the new Team Leader of Literature Services. We found out more about her plans for open access publishing and Europe PMC.
2022
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Science & Technology A look back at some of the 2021 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life partner institutes.
2021
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Lab Matters EMBL announces the release of its new Open Science Policy, contributing to positive culture change across the life sciences.
2021
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Lab MattersScience & Technology Independent study reveals that EMBL-EBI open data resources are critical for the life sciences.
2021
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Science & Technology The BY-COVID project aims to make infectious disease data, including COVID-19, openly available to everyone.
2021
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Science & Technology Profiling M. tuberculosis strains from 27 countries to reveal causes of drug resistance.
2021
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Ian Dunham walks us through his career so far including working on the human genome project, seeing his work on the cover of Nature and his current role as Director of Open Targets.
2021
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Connections 3D-Beacons Network acts as a one-stop shop for protein structures by combining and standardising data from several providers.
2021
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Science & Technology Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognised last year as a solution to the protein structure prediction problem, to release more than 350,000 protein structure predictions including the entire human proteome to the scientific community.
2021
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Science & Technology DeepMind and EMBL-EBI to make millions of protein structure predictions freely available to the scientific community.
2021
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Science & Technology A discussion of the applications that AlphaFold DB may enable and the possible impact of the resource on science and society.
2021
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Science & Technology Researchers establish a framework for identifying new drugs capable of exploiting a cell’s own machinery.
2021
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Connections Scientists from the CABANA project explore how open data is benefiting global research efforts.
2021
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Science & Technology Researchers have used human medical and genetic data from UK Biobank to investigate the genetics of age-related diseases
2021
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EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Open letter galvanises life science community in support of open COVID-19 data
2021
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Science & Technology Open access data benefits millions of scientists around the world and is essential for a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020
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Science & Technology The new collaborative space will help scientists, public health and healthcare professionals around the world to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
2020
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Science & Technology EMBL-EBI set to launch European COVID-19 Data Platform to help store, share, and analyse research data linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020
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Science & Technology The BioImage Archive - EMBL-EBI's first dedicated imaging data resource
2019
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ConnectionsLab Matters Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
2018
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Lab Matters Ioanna Ydraiou and Bernd Pulverer spoke about their view of challenges and opportunities of OA.
2018
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Science & Technology New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
2017
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People & Perspectives Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services
2017
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Science & Technology Introducing one of the largest collections of high-quality human induced pluripotent stem cells
2017
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Science & Technology New method combines signalling pathway data resources to improve systems biology research
2016
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Science & Technology BLUEPRINT: EMBL-EBI and the push to decipher the blood epigenome
2016
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Lab Matters Independent analysis of EMBL-EBI underscores the value and impact of open data in the life sciences
2016
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ConnectionsLab Matters Pioneering target validation collaboration expands to accelerate drug discovery research.
2016
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