Science The latest research from EMBL’s Ikmi group employs interdisciplinary approaches to show how sea anemone ‘exercise’ changes their developing size and shape, uncovering an intimate relationship between behaviour and body development
2022
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Announcements Tapping the potential of computational biology and bioinformatics to understand blood-related diseases.
2022
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Lab Matters Judith Zaugg, Group Leader at EMBL Heidelberg, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of €2 million funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme. Over the next five years, the grant will enable her group to study cellular interactions in the human bone…
2022
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Science EMBL Hamburg’s Grzegorz Chojnowski from the Wilmanns Group developed software called findMySequence, which identifies proteins’ amino-acid sequences based on electron cryo-microscopy and X-ray crystallography data. It’s useful for identifying unknown proteins in samples from natural sources.
2022
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Lab Matters Maria Zimmermann-Kogadeeva is one of EMBL’s newest group leaders and a computational biologist whose research group applies computational modelling to better understand the metabolism of gut bacteria and their potential to have far-reaching impacts on other organs.
2021
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Lab Matters The contribution of EMBL Group Leader and Senior Scientist Wolfgang Huber has been recognised by the International Society for Computational Biology
2021
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Science While cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) was first envisioned in 1968, the advances the Mahamid group are bringing to this 3D method for studying molecules directly inside cells are new, and are likely to greatly expand its use.
2020
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Science The Gerstung Group at EMBL-EBI and collaborators have developed a statistical model that analyses genomic data to predict whether a patient has a high or low risk of developing oesophageal cancer.
2020
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Science Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm that uses computer vision to analyse tissue samples from cancer patients. The algorithm can distinguish between healthy and cancerous tissues, and can also identify patterns DNA and RNA changes in tumours.
2020
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Science Researchers in the Marcia group at EMBL Grenoble and the De Vivo lab at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa have obtained some of the most detailed ever snapshots of the splicing process in systems known as group II self-splicing introns. The new insights will help scientists to develop…
2020
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Science Researchers in EMBL’s Zaugg group have studied the causes of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a rare disease that causes high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs. The study, carried out in collaboration with Stanford University School of Medicine, compared lung cells of patients…
2020
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Science EMBL researchers have developed a method to observe interactions between transcription factors
2020
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Science Crick and EMBL PhDs talk science over coffee
2019
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Science Children's rights stored in synthetic DNA
2019
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Events On microbiomes, public engagement and not being boring
2019
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Science Immunotherapy: the role of B cells
2019
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Science Exploring the cancer genomics labyrinth
2019
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Science Understanding how ageing works at a molecular level
2019
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Science How computer processing of human language is harnessed by EMBL scientists
2019
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Lab Matters PDBe-KB - new data resource for protein structure and function launches
2019
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Lab Matters Enhancing the world's bioinformatics infrastructure
2019
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Science EMBL-EBI industry case study: Biocatalysts
2018
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Science New algorithm will enhance understanding of relationship between genotype and environmental factors
2018
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Lab Matters Building bridges between scientists and software developers
2018
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Alumni Translating 2D hospital scans into 3D prints is informing patients and aiding surgeons
2018
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Lab Matters Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
2018
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Science Complex metabolomics analyses in the cloud
2018
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Science Acute myloid leukaemia risk could be detected years before diagnosis
2018
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Science New computational method uses multi-omics analysis for personalised medicine
2018
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Science EMBL group leader Jan Korbel reflects on his scientific origins and current research
2018
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Science New EMBL-EBI Group Leader will make sense of bioimaging data
2018
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Science What does a cell's location tell us?
2018
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Science EMBL’s new group leader studies how gene expression is controlled
2018
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Science EMBL scientists unveil how 3D chromatin structure affects RNA splicing
2017
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Alumni EMBL physicist-turned-biologist alumni win 2017 Kendrew and Phillipson awards
2017
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Science New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
2017
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Science A new group at EMBL-EBI aims to decipher cell signalling networks
2017
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Science EMBL researchers complete a molecular atlas showing gene expression in all cells in an entire animal
2017
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Science ERC grantee Eileen Furlong shares her vision for the next ten years
2017
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Science EMBL researchers develop a computer model to explore the movement of nuclei in a multinuclear cell
2017
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Alumni EMBL alumnus Angus Lamond is driving forward new ways to explore the proteome
2016
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Alumni 27 former Bork lab members joined Peer for a full-day get-together this summer
2016
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Science “It’s a bit like drawing a picture of an intricate object just by looking at its shadow on the wall."
2016
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Science Crowd sourcing initiative to predict effects of toxic compounds: results of 2013 DREAM Challenge.
2015
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Science Jan Korbel and colleagues publish commentary on risks and rewards of genome cloud computing.
2015
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Lab Matters Academic community clouds take cancer research towards a brighter future.
2015
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Science Cooperate or compete? Microbes show us that getting along is the better choice for communities.
2015
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Science What makes a human different from a chimp? Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have come one important step closer to answering such evolutionary questions correctly. In the current issue of Science they uncover…
2008
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Lab Matters The Commission of the European Union has awarded EUR 9 million over five years for a new Network of Excellence that will make computational systems biology accessible to bench scientists throughout Europe and beyond. ENFIN, which stands for ‘Experimental Network for Functional…
2005
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Lab Matters The International Society for Computational Biology has named two scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute as the winners of its awards for 2005. Janet Thornton wins the Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award while the Overton Prize goes to Ewan Birney. Thomas Lengauer, the ISCB’s…
2005
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