17 December 2024
Blog post by Eleni Tzampatzopoulou, EMBL-EBI Impact Manager In summer 2024, EMBL-EBI ran a user survey, inviting our community to let us know how they use the open data resources we jointly manage with our collaborators. With over 2,300 responses from 126 countries, we were delighted by the depth…
23 October 2024
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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18 October 2024
Ensembl 113 brings major gene and regulatory feature annotation updates in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse).
2024
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9 October 2024
Creators of AI system AlphaFold receive 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2024
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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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16 May 2024
EMBL-EBI's new Head of Research shares his plans and priorities.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2024
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15 November 2023
Where to start when thinking about the sustainability of informatics projects
15 November 2023
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
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2 November 2023
Users no longer need to download large datasets with the new galleries feature
2023
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20 July 2023
The latest Expression Atlas release is now live and contains a wider range of RNA-seq and proteomics datasets.
2023
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12 July 2023
Construction begins on EMBL-EBI's new building named after Janet Thornton.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2023
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3 July 2023
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…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
sciencescience-technology
29 June 2023
New framework to improve the FAIRness of clinical and molecular datasets
27 June 2023
HoloFood, the first consistent collection of multiomic data about chicken and salmon gut microbiomes, set to enable the development of better animal feeds.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
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22 May 2023
Postdoctoral researcher Carolin Sauer is leveraging long-read sequencing to develop new detection methods for various cancers.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2023
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11 May 2023
Understanding chromothripsis offers insights into how cancer develops.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
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28 February 2023
Why open data from model organisms is essential for rare disease research.
27 February 2023
The Open Global Data Citation Corpus will become a central place for research data citations, and include accession numbers supplied by Europe PMC.
22 February 2023
Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2023
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16 February 2023
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.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
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9 February 2023
Open data played a pivotal role in the development of the AlphaFold AI. The same open principles now apply to AlphaFold predictions.
27 January 2023
New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS
2023
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26 January 2023
Open Targets is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and prioritise drug targets.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2023
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22 December 2022
Open data resources that enable global research and development recognised by the Global Biodata Coalition.
2022
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8 December 2022
Unveiling a useful tool for understanding human lung development.
2022
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11 November 2022
Our experts discuss the importance of open science for food security and preserving global biodiversity.
19 October 2022
Data continues to be available in BioStudies.
2022
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23 September 2022
Cell biologist Anthony Hyman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were announced among 25 Breakthrough Prize recipients
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2022
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22 August 2022
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.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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28 July 2022
AlphaFold database offers a look at 3D protein universe.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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12 July 2022
The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.
2022
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17 June 2022
Funding set to support data resources for key areas of antimicrobial resistance, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity loss
23 May 2022
Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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17 May 2022
Janet Thornton, the inaugural winner of the FEBS Journal Open Science Award, explains the importance and impact of open science.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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12 May 2022
How text mining collaborations benefit our research, data resources, and the wider scientific community.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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11 May 2022
Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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5 May 2022
Virginie Uhlmann shares her tips for using deep learning for bioimage analysis in the life sciences.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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22 April 2022
EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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21 April 2022
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…
6 April 2022
Researchers from the MANE collaboration bring you the most comprehensive human genome annotation dataset to date.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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23 March 2022
Zamin Iqbal and his team are working with researchers all over the globe to help put a stop to Tuberculosis
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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21 March 2022
Our researchers highlight their contributions to the Darwin Tree of Life project and how new genome annotations helps to further biodiversity research
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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17 March 2022
The African BioGenome Project aims to safeguard biodiversity and build bioinformatics capacity across Africa
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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4 March 2022
Deep learning models can improve protein annotations and has helped expand the Pfam database.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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10 February 2022
Open Targets, a consortium focused on drug target identification, prioritisation, and validation, announced today that Pfizer has joined as a partner.
CONNECTIONS
2022
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24 January 2022
An exploration of where in the world genomics methods are applied and where the data are used.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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21 January 2022
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?
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2022
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14 January 2022
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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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17 December 2021
A look back at some of the 2021 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life partner institutes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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16 December 2021
EMBL announces the release of its new Open Science Policy, contributing to positive culture change across the life sciences.
LAB MATTERS
27 October 2021
Independent study reveals that EMBL-EBI open data resources are critical for the life sciences.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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21 October 2021
The BY-COVID project aims to make infectious disease data, including COVID-19, openly available to everyone.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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19 October 2021
Profiling M. tuberculosis strains from 27 countries to reveal causes of drug resistance.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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19 October 2021
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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2021
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16 September 2021
3D-Beacons Network acts as a one-stop shop for protein structures by combining and standardising data from several providers.
CONNECTIONS
22 July 2021
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.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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22 July 2021
DeepMind and EMBL-EBI to make millions of protein structure predictions freely available to the scientific community.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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22 July 2021
A discussion of the applications that AlphaFold DB may enable and the possible impact of the resource on science and society.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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21 July 2021
Researchers establish a framework for identifying new drugs capable of exploiting a cell’s own machinery.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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15 April 2021
Scientists from the CABANA project explore how open data is benefiting global research efforts.
CONNECTIONS
8 April 2021
Researchers have used human medical and genetic data from UK Biobank to investigate the genetics of age-related diseases
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2021
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4 February 2021
Open letter galvanises life science community in support of open COVID-19 data
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS
2021
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20 October 2020
Open access data benefits millions of scientists around the world and is essential for a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
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20 April 2020
The new collaborative space will help scientists, public health and healthcare professionals around the world to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
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27 March 2020
EMBL-EBI set to launch European COVID-19 Data Platform to help store, share, and analyse research data linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
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2 July 2019
The BioImage Archive - EMBL-EBI's first dedicated imaging data resource
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2019
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30 October 2018
Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS
2018
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26 October 2018
Ioanna Ydraiou and Bernd Pulverer spoke about their view of challenges and opportunities of OA.
LAB MATTERS
1 December 2017
New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
sciencescience-technology
29 September 2017
Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2017
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11 May 2017
Introducing one of the largest collections of high-quality human induced pluripotent stem cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2017
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5 December 2016
New method combines signalling pathway data resources to improve systems biology research
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2016
sciencescience-technology
18 November 2016
BLUEPRINT: EMBL-EBI and the push to decipher the blood epigenome
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2016
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11 February 2016
Independent analysis of EMBL-EBI underscores the value and impact of open data in the life sciences
LAB MATTERS
8 February 2016
Pioneering target validation collaboration expands to accelerate drug discovery research.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS
2016
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