Sense makers: how standards are enabling data reuse
Data standards that have been silently enabling discovery in the life sciences for decades are now making AI advances possible.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Bringing research on disordered proteins to order
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 & TECHNOLOGY2023
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FAIRification framework: making your data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
New framework to improve the FAIRness of clinical and molecular datasets
2023
perspectives
Supporting the development of hologenomic approaches for more sustainable animal feeds
HoloFood, the first consistent collection of multiomic data about chicken and salmon gut microbiomes, set to enable the development of better animal feeds.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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We are EMBL: Carolin Sauer on supporting cancer research
Postdoctoral researcher Carolin Sauer is leveraging long-read sequencing to develop new detection methods for various cancers.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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What happens when chromosomes shatter
Understanding chromothripsis offers insights into how cancer develops.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Shedding light on rare diseases: open data and model organisms
Why open data from model organisms is essential for rare disease research.
2023
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Molecules to Ecosystems: Jo McEntyre on data services
Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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BIOcean5D targets marine biodiversity
EMBL hosts inaugural meeting for major interdisciplinary project designed to boost understanding of ocean life
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Mapping the human brain: a global collaboration
NIH BRAIN Initiative to fund brain atlases, network coordination, and knowledge sharing to explore brain function research.
2022
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Europe PMC: Harnessing the power of text mining to accelerate life sciences research
How text mining collaborations benefit our research, data resources, and the wider scientific community.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Peter Harrison – Genome Analysis Team Leader
Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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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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Pathogen data sharing – key to pandemic preparedness
Researchers lay out a set of principles for open genomic data sharing or pathogens
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Genomic sequencing aids the global Tuberculosis fight
Zamin Iqbal and his team are working with researchers all over the globe to help put a stop to Tuberculosis
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Safeguarding African biodiversity through genomics
The African BioGenome Project aims to safeguard biodiversity and build bioinformatics capacity across Africa
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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New genetic data policy must promote biodiversity conservation
Scientists urge the adoption of a sensible international policy for digital sequence information.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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The Earth Biogenome Project: on track and ready to ramp up
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 & TECHNOLOGY2022
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DUO: streamlining access to biomedical datasets
The GA4GH Data Use Ontology (DUO) supports a data authorisation and access framework to streamline consent to use biomedical data
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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BY-COVID – a new EU project for pandemic preparedness
The BY-COVID project aims to make infectious disease data, including COVID-19, openly available to everyone.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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CRyPTIC: cataloguing drug resistance mutations in M. tuberculosis
Profiling M. tuberculosis strains from 27 countries to reveal causes of drug resistance.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Understanding the role of our genes in SARS-CoV-2 infections
EMBL scientists will contribute to the new German COVID-19 OMICS Initiative to study the biological mechanisms contributing to coronavirus infections. EMBL group leaders Jan Korbel and Oliver Stegle, who is also affiliated with the DKFZ Heidelberg, will coordinate the set-up of IT infrastructures…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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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 & TECHNOLOGY2020
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EMBL-EBI launches COVID-19 Data Portal
The new collaborative space will help scientists, public health and healthcare professionals around the world to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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The first public nucleotide sequence database turns 25
It was the world’s earliest public database of DNA and RNA sequences and remains Europe’s primary nucleotide sequence resource. The database is maintained by EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton (UK) in collaboration with its US and Japanese counterparts GenBank and…
LAB MATTERS2007
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