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4 September 2024

What I’ve learned: Alvis Brazma

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI alumnus Alvis Brazma reflects on how mathematics and mountaineering have shaped his life and why keeping things simple in bioinformatics is key.

2024

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30 August 2024 A multi-coloured donut representing the structure of an NPC.

“Structurally” sound

Science & Technology The function of biological molecules is intimately linked to their structure. In the 50 years since EMBL was established, its researchers and engineers have constantly provided leadership in structural biology research and services, resulting in many scientific breakthroughs and novel insights.

2024

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23 August 2024

Welcome: David Ocaña

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI’s new Head of Applications will use his expertise in cloud infrastructure and security to support the institute’s open data resources.

2024

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1 August 2024 Open Targets logo

Why clinical trials stop: the role of genetics

Science & Technology Using machine learning to analyse the genetic factors behind early clinical trial termination, researchers find a link between genetic evidence and trial outcome.

2024

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25 July 2024

DECIPHER v11.27 release

The v11.27 DECIPHER release is out now. Find out about the new features and improvements.

2024

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21 June 2024

Welcome: Mallory Freeberg

People & Perspectives The new Team Leader for Human Genomics at EMBL-EBI shares how curiosity and maths shaped her career and what it takes to be a community builder.

2024

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28 May 2024 DECIPHER logo

DECIPHER v11.26 release

The latest DECIPHER release includes AlphaMissense scores, links to the Open Targets Platform and more.

2024

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17 May 2024 Expression Atlas logo

Expression Atlas 40 released

The latest Expression Atlas 40 release is now live, containing new RNA-seq datasets, including a featured experiment resulting from a collaboration with Genotype Tissue Expression (GTEx) project as well as new proteomics data derived from our collaboration with PRIDE. In total, this release…

2024

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16 May 2024

Welcome: Julio Saez-Rodriguez

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI's new Head of Research shares his plans and priorities.

2024

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13 May 2024 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 112 has been released

Ensembl 112 and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 59 has released. This includes exciting new fish species, many more drosophila species and new VEP updates.

2024

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30 April 2024 Open Targets logo

MSD joins the Open Targets consortium

EMBL Announcements MSD joins as the latest partner in the Open Targets consortium, enhancing the initiative’s collaborative efforts in drug discovery.

2024

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2 April 2024

DECIPHER v11.25 released

The latest DECIPHER update, version 11.25, introduces new key features including the integration of functional data from multiplexed assays of variant effect (MAVEs) and much more.

2024

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27 March 2024

Using Data Hubs to analyse SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogen sequences

The SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs are a set of tools coupled with infrastructure that support four components: the submission, analysis, presentation and visualisation of SARS-CoV-2 raw read data, and its resulting analyses. What makes Data Hubs attractive is a unique set of features: A new publication in…

2024

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8 March 2024 MGnify logo with text underneath which reads release

MGnify Genomes mouse gut catalogue v1.0 released

The MGnify data resource for microbiome data has launched the latest MGnify Genomes catalogue comprising 112,951 genomes derived from mouse gut datasets, represented by 2,847 species-level cluster representative genomes. This catalogue was generated as part of our work with the MRC funded…

2024

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28 February 2024 DECIPHER logo

DECIPHER v11.24 Released

Version 11.24 of DECIPHER introduces a new ACMG/AMP pathogenicity interface for sequence variant predictions, displays ClinGen Variant Curation Expert Panel recommendations on gene pages, and updates ACMG secondary finding information to v3.2.

2024

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29 January 2024 InterPro logo

InterPro 98.0 released

InterPro version 98.0 and InterProScan 5.66-98.0 are now available. InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 40000 entries. InterPro version 98.0 New features include: InterPro 98.0 covers 81.7% of UniProt Knowledgebase release…

2024

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29 January 2024 Man leaning against a wall

Welcome: Kyle Morris

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Kyle Morris joins EMBL-EBI as Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) Team Leader.

2024

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12 January 2024 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 111 has been released

The Ensembl 111 features a range of new Ensembl VEP plugins and updated agricultural, fish, plant and metazoa species.

2024

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14 November 2023 InterPro logo

InterPro 97.0 released

InterPro version 97.0 and InterProScan 5.64-97.0 are now available. InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 40000 entries.

2023

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26 September 2023 InterPro logo

InterPro 96.0 released

InterPro version 96.0 and InterProScan 5.64-96.0 are now available.

2023

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21 September 2023

Understanding the mechanisms of enzyme catalysis

Science & Technology Enzymes constitute a large fraction of genomes – 20% in humans – which makes them a very important part of life. Despite decades of studies and a rich literature dedicated to understanding the reaction mechanisms of enzymes, the rules of enzyme catalysis are still not fully clear. A new…

2023

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21 September 2023 Man standing outside

Welcome: David Hulcoop

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives David Hulcoop discusses how his experience bridging organisational cultures will help address critical challenges in drug discovery and target selection at Open Targets.

2023

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14 August 2023 Man standing in front of a building

Open data to power up the blue economy

People & Perspectives EMBL-EBI Senior Scientist Rob Finn explains why data coordination and sharing are fundamental for a sustainable blue economy.

2023

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25 July 2023 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl Bacteria releases new annotation for all its genomes

Ensembl 110 and Ensembl Genomes 57 have introduced in-house prokaryotic gene annotation across genomes available in Ensembl Bacteria.  Since its inception, Ensembl Bacteria has imported user-submitted annotations from the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC) for…

2023

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17 July 2023 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 110 has been released

Ensembl 100 release brings exciting updates, such as the addition of regulation data to 5 animal genomes studied extensively in agriculture.

2023

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7 July 2023 InterPro logo

InterPro 95.0 released

InterPro version 95.0 and InterProScan 5.63-95.0 are now available! InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 39000 entries. InterPro version 95.0 – new features include: InterPro 95.0 covers 81.7% of UniProt Knowledgebase…

2023

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5 July 2023 Man standing in corridor

David Hulcoop appointed as Open Targets Director

EMBL Announcements Coming from a pharmaceutical industry background, David Hulcoop is set to take over as Executive Director of the public-private partnership Open Targets.

2023

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3 July 2023 In the foreground: an intrinsically disordered protein, which has a form of a tangled, unstructured string. In the background: a set of parallel curved lines.

Bringing research on disordered proteins to order

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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16 May 2023

Managing a bioinformatics core facility

BioImage Archive Team Leader Matthew Hartley shares his experience and tips for people interested in managing a bioinformatics core facility.

2023

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10 May 2023 Globe with genome data from multiple people

A more diverse human reference genome

Science & Technology The human pangenome – one of the most complete collections of genome sequences released so far – captures rich human diversity.

2023

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18 April 2023 Decorative image showing WormBase ParaSite logo

WormBase ParaSite 18 released

Science & Technology WormBase ParaSite release 18 adds largest number of new genomes and annotations since launch, as well as full integration with AlphaFold.

2023

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11 April 2023 Phylogenetic tree with beams of light to represent data

MAPLE: a phylogenetic tool for pandemic-scale genome data

Science & Technology EMBL-EBI researchers have developed a new tool capable of performing state-of-the-art phylogenetic inference on larger datasets than previously thought possible.

2023

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29 March 2023 Photographs of two male scientists in circular insets against a decorative background

EMBL Alumni Awards Announced for 2023

Two former EMBL scientists have been recognised for their outstanding contributions to the fields of science communication and multiple sequence alignment research, respectively.

2023

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22 March 2023 Artistic representation that features a long, winding helix joining together a doughnut-figure to a small shaggy ball to indicate the connections long-read sequencing can make about DNA mutations.

The ‘long read’ for cancer

Using Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing, EMBL scientists sequenced a primary childhood brain tumour known as a medulloblastoma, uncovering a novel complex mutation pattern.

2023

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7 March 2023 InterPro logo

New releases: InterPro 93.0 and InterProScan 5.61-93.0

InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 38,000 entries. InterPro version 93.0 InterPro 93.0 integrates 300 new methods from the CDD (261), PANTHER (12), PROSITE profiles (17), SMART (9), TIGRFAMs (1) databases, and covers 81.7%…

2023

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23 February 2023 Decorative image

New Job Dispatcher website launched

EMBL-EBI’s Software Development and Operations team is delighted to announce the launch of a brand-new Job Dispatcher website, currently in development.  The updated website provides a landing page for the Job Dispatcher services, making it easier for users to find and navigate services…

2023

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16 February 2023

New EU-funded Project: Fragment-Screen

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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8 February 2023 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 109 has been released

Latest Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes releases bring updates to donkey and horse assemblies, and lots of new plants and metazoa.

2023

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4 January 2023 InterPro logo

New releases: InterPro 92.0 and InterProScan 5.60-92.0

InterPro version 92.0 and InterProScan 5.60-92.0 are now available. InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 38000 entries.

2023

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20 December 2022

First linked dataset on Pathogens Portal

The first  cohort study linking data across categories was recently added on the Pathogens Portal Cohort Browser and is also accessible from the BioSamples browser. This pilot study comes from Erasmus Medical Centre through the ReCoDID project, one of the COVID-19 Data Platform supporting…

2022

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11 November 2022 Photos of four panel discussion speakers

Open science for climate justice

Our experts discuss the importance of open science for food security and preserving global biodiversity.

2022

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2 November 2022 Fluorescent microscopy image of skeletal muscle with biological data imagery

AI4LIFE: AI models for bioimaging

Researchers across EMBL are helping to make artificial intelligence (AI) models for bioimaging analysis interoperable and openly available to the scientific community.

2022

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21 October 2022 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 108 has been released

We are pleased to announce the release of Ensembl 108, and the corresponding release of Ensembl Genomes 55 featuring changes in the human default tracks, new genomes in Ensembl Plants and Ensembl Metazoa, and the addition of mitochondrial annotation for Tasmanian devil. Genome assemblies and…

2022

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9 September 2022 Monochrome decorative image with the word "statement" on grey background.

In tribute to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The United Kingdom is a founding member of EMBL, and has hosted EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute since 1994. We recognise that the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will have a profound impact on the country, and we extend our deepest sympathies to the Royal Family at this…

2022

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9 August 2022 InterPro logo

New releases: InterPro 90.0 and InterProScan 5.57-90.0

InterPro version 90.0 and InterProScan 5.57-90.0 are now available. InterPro now features hundreds of new methods integrated from partner databases, and InterProScan draws on over 40000 entries

2022

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1 August 2022

Shining a light on how bacteria interact

Science & Technology Machine learning has helped researchers uncover new insights into how bacteria infect host cells.

2022

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13 July 2022 Decorative image showing a double helix DNA road and with what look like road signs.

Uncharted territories in the human genome

Science & Technology Scientists identify previously unexplored gene segments to be added to human genome databases.

2022

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12 July 2022 Ensembl logo in white circle on blue and green background

Ensembl 107 has been released

The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.

2022

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7 July 2022 Single Cell Expression Atlas logo on green background

Interactive data visualisation for Single Cell Expression Atlas

Using powerful data visualisation and interactive search results across datasets allows users to explore hypotheses across a range of metadata, and discover new insights backed by expertly curated, consistently reanalysed single cell sequencing data. Searching for metadata, allows a powerful…

2022

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9 June 2022 ArrayExpress logo; a red A and green E in a circle with the word ArrayExpress

ArrayExpress interface to close

On 30 September 2022 the ArrayExpress interface will close. All datasets have now been migrated from ArrayExpress into the BioStudies ArrayExpress collection

2022

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11 May 2022 Man standing on a balcony

Peter Harrison – Genome Analysis Team Leader

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.

2022

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21 April 2022 Portrait of Guy Cochrane, Team Leader at EMBL-EBI's European Nucleotide Archive. Credit: Jeff Dowling/EMBL-EBI.

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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30 March 2022 Man standing in front of a wall with scientific imagery including protein structures

Welcome: John Lees

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives John Lees joins EMBL-EBI as a Group Leader in Pathogen informatics and modelling.

2022

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10 February 2022 Pfizer logo with pipette tips in the background

Pfizer joins the Open Targets consortium

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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28 January 2022 Collage with protein structure in the background and text in the foreground. Text says "17 organisms on the WHO’s neglected tropical diseases list and 10 organisms on its antimicrobial resistance list"

AlphaFold update – neglected tropical diseases

Latest AlphaFold database update adds 27 new organisms and almost 200,000 new protein structure predictions relevant to neglected tropical diseases and antimicrobial resistance

2022

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14 January 2022 Woman standing next to a hedge

Welcome: Melissa Harrison

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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16 November 2021 Collage showing different species that play an essential part in global food security, including cattle, pollinators and plants

Can data help feed a hungry world?

Science & Technology How genomics, open data, and multidisciplinary science can improve food security.

2021

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10 November 2021 Logo showing an opened padlock and the words “Data Use Ontology” and biomedical samples in background.

DUO: streamlining access to biomedical datasets

Science & Technology The GA4GH Data Use Ontology (DUO) supports a data authorisation and access framework to streamline consent to use biomedical data

2021

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10 November 2021 Graphic representations of different types of bacteria.

Making sense of bacterial DNA data

Science & Technology A vast, curated collection of bacterial genomes is now organised, searchable and open to the community.

2021

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5 July 2021

Welcome: Sarah Dyer

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.

2021

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9 June 2021 R2DT software for RNA structures

Visualising RNA structures using R2DT

Science & Technology New software enables scientists to visualise RNA secondary structures using the world’s largest RNA structure dataset.

2021

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21 May 2021 Image of a mosquito on a clear surface

EMBL scientists support malaria research

Science & Technology EMBL scientists support research on malaria by providing freely available data resources and using innovative experimental approaches. Our Course and Conference Office facilitates the exchange of knowledge in the field by hosting the annual BioMalPar conference.

2021

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28 April 2021 Artistic representation of brain and DNA

Uniting strengths to expand research

ConnectionsLab Matters The European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Italian Institute of Technology have signed an agreement to expand the scope of their collaboration to include areas of mutual interest and in the context of EMBL’s 2022-2026 Programme “Molecules to Ecosystems”.

2021

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8 April 2021 Genetics of ageing

Linking genetics and age-related diseases

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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16 February 2021 Microscopy images of coronavirus-infected cells in blue and red, arranged on a clockface. Illustrations of virus particles.

Finding coronavirus’s helper proteins

Science & Technology A team of EMBL scientists and colleagues have analysed how the novel coronavirus affects proteins in human cells. They identified several human proteins as potential drug targets to prevent viral replication.

2021

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4 December 2020 Haemoglobin protein structure shown over a matrix symbolising artificial intelligence

Solving the protein structure puzzle

Science & Technology How artificial intelligence can help us solve the mysteries of the protein universe

2020

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22 October 2020 An artistic image of colorful wires connected to a could database.

EOSC: shaping Europe’s digital future

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL’s Rupert Lück is engaged in developing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC): the infrastructure that will support the future of data sharing and analysis in Europe.

2020

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15 October 2020 Four blue circular objects are surrounded with green structures, and the central blue circle with pink structures. The blue circles are human cell nuclei, and pink and green structures are proteins.

Repurposing drugs for a pan-coronavirus treatment

Science & Technology Scientists from the Beltrao Group at EMBL-EBI and collaborators identified drug targets common to SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1, and MERS-CoV, three pathogenic coronaviruses. They also found potential drugs that could be repurposed as COVID-19 treatments, and against emerging coronavirus strains in the…

2020

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7 September 2020 Human silhouette showing internal organs including oesophagus and stomach. Circle with DNA bases A,T, C and G superimposed.

Genome sequencing accelerates cancer detection

Science & Technology 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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20 August 2020 A portrait photo of Geetika Malhotra, new Head of Web Development at EMBL-EBI.

Welcome: Geetika Malhotra

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives The Web Development team provides a central source of web design and development for EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). In July, Geetika Malhotra joined the team as their new Head.

2020

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19 August 2020 A human heart sits at the centre of the illustration. The left ventricle is see-through, showing patterns of trabeculae. Around the heart are some notes from Leonardo da Vinci.

New clues to a 500-year old mystery about the human heart

Science & Technology An international team of scientists involving Ewan Birney's group has investigated the function of a complex mesh of muscle fibres that line the inner surface of the heart.

2020

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5 August 2020 The tuatara, an iguana-like reptile with a crest of spikes, sits on a forest floor.

The curious genome of the tuatara, an ancient reptile in peril

Science & Technology A global team of researchers including the Flicek Team at EMBL-EBI has partnered up with the Māori tribe Ngātiwai to sequence the genome of the tuatara, a rare reptile endemic to New Zealand.

2020

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3 August 2020 A woman with glasses holds a book. The book cover says "Gene naming rules". Thought bubbles float around her head and display gene symbols like BRCA1.

Bagpipe and Pokemon, or how not to name a human gene

Science & Technology The human genome harbours about 19 000 protein-coding genes, many of which still have no known function. As scientists unveil the secrets of our DNA, they come across novel genes that they need to refer to using a unique name. The Human Genome Organisation’s Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) at…

2020

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27 July 2020 Mosaic of microscopy images of tumour, forming two broken DNA molecules

Artificial intelligence finds patterns of mutations and survival in tumour images

Science & Technology 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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20 July 2020 A magnifying glass hovers over the human gut, revealing its biodiversity.

Unparalleled inventory of the human gut ecosystem

Science & Technology An international team of scientists has collated all known bacterial genomes from the human gut microbiome into a single large database. Their work will allow researchers to explore the links between bacterial genes and proteins, and their effects on human health.

2020

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13 July 2020 scientists teaching about the microbiome

Applications for virtual learning lab open

Lab Matters The European Learning Laboratory for the Life Sciences (ELLS), EMBL’s education facility, invites secondary school science teachers to participate in a virtual training course this autumn entitled ‘Introducing your microbiome’.

2020

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8 July 2020 Alexander Aulehla on the left and Paul Flicek on the Right

Two EMBL scientists become EMBO Members

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters This year, EMBO elected 63 new members, including Alexander Aulehla, Group Leader and Senior Scientist at EMBL Heidelberg, and Paul Flicek, Associate Director of EMBL-EBI Services, Senior Scientist, Group and Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.

2020

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1 July 2020 New Informatics Science Director at Open Targets, Ellie McDonagh

Welcome: Ellie McDonagh

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Open Targets welcomes new Informatics Science Director

2020

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24 June 2020 Artist's impression of DNA lesions. Credit: Petra Korlevic

Unpicking the complexity of DNA mutations

Science & Technology DNA damage caused by chemical mutagens is not repaired immediately and can create more genetic diversity in tumours.

2020

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26 May 2020 Bioinformatic analysis of over 4700 SARS-CoV-2 genomes revealed that many of the most interesting changes in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been reported so far are likely to be technical artefacts, rather than biological mutations.

Distinguishing coronavirus genome mutations from inadvertent errors

Science & Technology EMBL scientists have performed a large-scale analysis of over 4700 SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences. They found that many of the most interesting changes in the SARS-CoV-2 genome that have been reported so far are likely to be technical artefacts, rather than biological mutations.

2020

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20 April 2020 COVID-19 Data Portal logo on globe background

EMBL-EBI launches COVID-19 Data Portal

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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3 March 2020

Snowy day

Lab Matters Colder winter weather has finally arrived EMBL-EBI. It’s the first time the site has seen snow this winter.

2020

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5 February 2020

The Pan-Cancer project

Science & Technology EMBL co-leads most comprehensive study of genetic causes of cancer

2020

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5 February 2020

Characterising RNA alterations in cancer

Science & Technology The largest and most comprehensive catalogue of cancer-specific RNA alterations reveals new insights into the cancer genome.

2020

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5 February 2020

Cancer mutations occur decades before diagnosis

Science & Technology Researchers at EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) and the Francis Crick Institute have analysed the whole genomes of over 2600 tumours from 38 different cancer types to determine the chronology of genomic changes during cancer development.

2020

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5 February 2020

Chromothripsis in human cancer

Science & Technology Researchers at Harvard Medical School and EMBL-EBI have carried out the largest analysis across cancer types of the newly discovered mutational phenomenon chromothripsis.

2020

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4 February 2020 Mouse genetic data identifies rare disease genes

Pinpointing rare disease mutations

Science & Technology New resource that categorises genes essential for supporting life could be used to identify rare disease mutations

2020

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31 January 2020

Statement on Brexit

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters Today marks the next chapter in the UK’s relationship with Europe. While we wait to see what a future relationship brings, researchers will continue to work across borders to tackle society’s most pressing problems, such as climate change, ageing, and disease.

2020

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21 January 2020 Janet Thornton EMBL Insight Lecture

Ageing and disease

Science & Technology Dame Janet Thornton presents the 2019 EMBL Insight Lecture: Ageing and disease – what is the link?

2020

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18 October 2019

A tool to monitor tuberculosis

Science & Technology Funding awarded to EMBL-EBI for tuberculosis monitoring tool

2019

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9 October 2019

Science for everyone

Lab Matters During the Nacht der Forschung 2019, everyone was able to become a scientist for a day at EMBL

2019

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6 September 2019 EMBL-EBI celebrated its 25 anniversary on 1 September 2019. Credit: Spencer Phillips

25 years of EMBL-EBI

Lab Matters EMBL-EBI celebrated its 25 anniversary on 1 September 2019

2019

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27 August 2019

Where science meets art

Lab Matters The most basic building blocks of life are the biological molecules in our cells. While these molecules are too small to see with most microscopes, they have incredibly complex and beautiful structures. Therefore, the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe), The Art Society CANTAB and The Art Society…

2019

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10 July 2019 A word cloud displaying the most frequently used words in issue 93 of the EMBLetc. magazine

Programming: language

Science & Technology How computer processing of human language is harnessed by EMBL scientists

2019

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5 July 2019 Picture of a fern gametophyte

Fun with fern photography

EMBL Announcements EMBL alumna Jennifer Deegan built a prize-winning system for photographing ferns

2019

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2 July 2019 BioImage Archive Logo

A new home for biological images

Science & Technology The BioImage Archive - EMBL-EBI's first dedicated imaging data resource

2019

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28 June 2019 EIPOD4 logo banner showing the 4 available tracks, research, industrial, clinical and academic.

EIPOD4: 2019 applications are open

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EIPOD4 will prepare researchers for the increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific career paths

2019

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25 June 2019

A colourful day at EMBL-EBI

Lab Matters EMBL is an intergovernmental organisation, currently supported by 26 member states, one prospect and two associate member states. There are more than 1700 people working at EMBL, who come from more than 80 countries, creating a multicultural environment. EMBL also operates from six sites in Europe:…

2019

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19 June 2019 The ELLS team

Building engagement

Lab Matters The team at ELLS use Lego to teach children the fundamentals of DNA.

2019

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28 May 2019

A fiery end to a productive day

Lab Matters EMBL’s sites provide spectacular views, such as this fiery sunset at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton. The campus, in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside, is home to several institutes and organisations working on genomics and computational biology. Among them is EMBL’s European…

2019

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26 November 2018 Sarah Butcher EMBL-EBI Technical Team Leader

Welcome: Sarah Butcher

Lab Matters Building bridges between scientists and software developers

2018

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30 October 2018 Sanofi logo on blue background

Sanofi joins Open Targets

ConnectionsLab Matters Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets

2018

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26 July 2018 Acrylic painting of couple made of proteins

Art meets structural biology

Lab Matters The Protein Data Bank in Europe celebrates its schools art project with its largest exhibition yet

2018

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8 June 2018 A stylised birds eye view of the EMBL Heidelberg Campus in green, black and white.

EMBL in six objects

Lab Matters A history of EMBL in six objects from the EMBL Archive

2018

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1 June 2018 EMBL researchers and collaborators enjoy their EMBL pints.

A pint of EMBL science

Lab Matters EMBL and Pint of Science join forces to entertain and educate

2018

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24 May 2018 Daniel Elias Martin Herranz EMBL-EBI

PhD goals: why not start a company?

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL-EBI PhD student launches start-up focusing on epigenetics and wellbeing

2018

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4 May 2018 Celgene logo on white background

Celgene joins Open Targets

ConnectionsLab Matters New partner strengthens drug discovery collaboration

2018

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23 February 2018 Meet some of the Humans of EMBL

Humans of EMBL: Past lives

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Discover the past lives and journeys that brought people to EMBL

2018

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21 December 2017

Your favourite reads of 2017

Lab Matters A look back at some of the most read stories on EMBL’s news website this year

2017

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14 December 2017 Illustration of complicated datasets

The future of training

Lab Matters EMBL experts outline the trends shaping scientific training in the coming years

2017

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29 November 2017 Collage of photos of some humans of EMBL discussed in this article

Humans of EMBL: Curiosity

Lab Matters EMBLers across all sites share how their curiosity about the world shapes their everyday life

2017

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21 November 2017 Fotis was EMBL's third Director-General. PHOTO: EMBL

Obituary: Fotis Kafatos

People & Perspectives Former EMBL Director General Fotis Kafatos passes away

2017

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29 September 2017 Photo of Andrew Leach, Head of Chemical Biology data services at EMBL-EBI

Welcome, Andrew Leach

People & Perspectives Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services

2017

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22 September 2017 Aerial view of EMBL-EBI Training Symposium 2017

Ten years of training at EMBL-EBI

Lab Matters International experts gather at EMBL-EBI to reflect on the future of bioinformatics training

2017

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1 August 2017 EMBL-EBI group leader Zamin Iqbal

Welcome: Zamin Iqbal

People & Perspectives The Iqbal research group hopes to build a 'Google of bacteria' to help better interpret the genome

2017

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24 July 2017 Map of Latin America

Bioinformatics in Latin America

ConnectionsLab Matters EMBL-EBI supports bioinformatics training and capacity in Latin America

2017

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26 June 2017 Is the sex of animals misdirecting research?

The sexual dimorphism dilemma

Science & Technology IMPC explains how much the sex of animals is misdirecting research results

2017

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26 June 2017 Mouse disease models

Mouse genes could help decipher disease

Science & Technology EMBL-EBI and IMPC characterised over 3000 mouse genes, revealing new gene associations with disease

2017

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14 June 2017 Image Data Resource

Open imaging data for biology

Science & Technology The Image Data Resource - prototype of the first open repository linking imaging and molecular data

2017

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6 June 2017

Senses: Silencing noise

Science & Technology Two EMBL researchers are exploring new ways to filter out noise and get to the data they need

2017

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25 April 2017

Embryos use ancient viral DNA

Science & Technology EMBL scientists detect important function of genetic sequence our ancestors assimilated from a virus

2017

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29 March 2017

Obituary: Anna Tramontano

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Anna Tramontano, bioinformatics pioneer and EMBL alumna, has passed away

2017

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29 March 2017

A tribute to Anna Tramontano

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Janet Thornton reflects on the contributions of EMBL alumna Anna Tramontano

2017

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16 February 2017

New EMBL and GSK collaboration

ConnectionsLab Matters GSK and EMBL have signed an agreement to enhance understanding of disease and drug mechanisms

2017

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13 February 2017

Genetic switches can change shape

Science & Technology EMBL scientists discovered that common mutations can change the shape of gene promoters

2017

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5 December 2016 OmniPath cover image Nature Methods 2016

Omnipath for signalling pathways

Science & Technology New method combines signalling pathway data resources to improve systems biology research

2016

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18 November 2016 Artist interpretation of a human epigenome.

BLUEPRINT project delivers

Science & Technology BLUEPRINT: EMBL-EBI and the push to decipher the blood epigenome

2016

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4 November 2016 Sequence bundles: screen shot

Collaboration is beautiful

Science & Technology Where design meets bioinformatics, new scientific perspectives abound.

2016

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30 August 2016 Data by Natalia Wesolowska has been visualised in 3D stereoscopic view, as an anaglyph and a 3D lenticular poster by Stefan Günther & Gustavo de Medeiros at EMBL

See data in a new light

Science & Technology 3D printing, gaming, virtual reality and lenticular posters bring new perspectives to research

2016

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30 August 2016 Francesco Iorio, an EMBL-EBI/Sanger Interdisciplinary Postdoc and now a senior bioinformatician at EMBL-EBI, strives to be "a great dad, as well as a great researcher". PHOTO: Robert Slowley

Postdocs of EMBL

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Turning the spotlight on the diverse universe of EMBL’s 200-strong postdoc community

2016

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30 August 2016 IMAGE: EMBL/Spencer Phillips

Form follows function

Science & Technology 'The PDB plays a crucial role in structural biology research and development'

2016

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4 August 2016 45 pupils from Saarland, Germany visit EMBL-EBI

Just try!

Lab Matters German students visit EMBL-EBI on a tour to explore a new culture and different career paths

2016

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7 July 2016

Mapping early development

Science & Technology “Like getting hold of a microscope for the first time”

2016

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23 May 2016 UK-based EMBL alumni gather at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in May 2016. PHOTO: Robert Slowley

Making business in Britain

Connections Abel Ureta-Vidal and Louise Modis join colleagues and peers at gathering of UK-based alumni

2016

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24 March 2016 Zernicka-Goetz lab, University of Cambridge

Foetus, or placenta?

Science & Technology Subtle genetic differences destine cells to placenta or animal, very early in embryo development

2016

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21 March 2016 EMPIAR

Supporting the bioimaging revolution

Science & Technology Commentary in Nature Methods introduces the EMPIAR resource and gives glimpse of future developments

2016

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11 February 2016 Report on the value and impact of EMBL-EBI underscores profound utility of open data

What is the value of open data?

Lab Matters Independent analysis of EMBL-EBI underscores the value and impact of open data in the life sciences

2016

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17 December 2015

What’s on in 2016

Connections With 28 conferences and 57 courses, 2016 will be EMBL’s most eventful year to date.

2015

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11 December 2015 Periodic Table of Protein Complexes, Ahnert et al., Science 2015

Periodic table of protein complexes

Science & Technology Making it easier to visualise, understand and predict how proteins combine to drive biological processes.

2015

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25 November 2015

Humans of EMBL

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Compelling short stories that shine light on the life and work of EMBL staff.

2015

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24 November 2015 No coincidence: organisers of this year’s PhD Symposium gather at EMBL Heidelberg 22–24 October for Just by Chance? Randomness and variability shaping biology. PHOTO: EMBL Photolab/Marietta Shupp

EMBL in pictures

Lab Matters A snapshot of the many activities and events that took place in the world of EMBL this Autumn.

2015

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9 November 2015 Bertone and Smith: Unpacking embryonic pluripotency

Unpacking embryonic pluripotency

Science & Technology Embryology, genomics and bioinformatics combine to identify factors regulating mammalian pluripotency.

2015

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29 October 2015 Enzyme Portal relaunched

Enzyme research made easier

Science & Technology Enzyme Portal makes it easier to explore all enzyme-related data in EMBL-EBI’s public resources.

2015

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15 October 2015 MinION™ USB-attached miniature sensing device.

Mini DNA sequencer tests true

Science & Technology Evaluation of MinION™ sequencer finds performance and reliability consistently good.

2015

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30 September 2015 The 1000 Genomes Project tracked genetic variation across the globe. EMBL-EBI/Spencer Phillips

Finding links and missing genes

Science & Technology Missing a gene may not be a big deal – a conclusion from global catalogue of genetic changes.

2015

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28 September 2015

EMBL-EBI training news

EMBL Announcements Highlights from EMBL-EBI’s Training Programme: Open Day, revamped webpages, free webinar series.

2015

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14 September 2015 Tara expeditions docks in London, September 2015, on its way to the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. [PHOTO: Robert Slowley]

EMBL onboard Tara, London 2015

Connections Tara Oceans research vessel welcomes aboard scientists, policymakers and funders.

2015

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10 September 2015 New method to study biological signalling networks

Clearing a path for cancer research

Science & Technology New computational method to study biological signalling networks in healthy and cancer cells.

2015

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9 September 2015 Vinton Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist, and a "fathers of the Internet".

From packets to planets

People & Perspectives Insights from the evangelical Vint Cerf, a “founding father of the Internet”, during a visit to EMBL.

2015

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3 September 2015 Moritz Gerstung

Welcome: Moritz Gerstung

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives New group explores why patients with same cancer exhibit unique constellations of genetic mutations.

2015

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24 August 2015 Janet Thornton. Photo: Robert Slowley

Transitions

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Janet Thornton reflects on her time as Director of one of Europe’s fastest growing research institutes.

2015

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24 August 2015

An ocean odyssey

Science & Technology A journalist who spent six weeks aboard Tara reflects on the expedition’s extraordinary outcomes.

2015

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13 July 2015

EIPOD goes cubic

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters EI3POD: flagship interdisciplinary postdoc programme opens its doors to academia and industry.

2015

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9 July 2015 One from Many

One from Many

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Database administrator's photo essay reflects internationality and personality of the Genome Campus.

2015

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30 June 2015 Timeline cake

Janet Thornton steps down

Lab Matters Staff gather to celebrate Janet Thorton's 14 years as Director of EMBL-EBI.

2015

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22 June 2015 More than 130 visitors bustled into the Cambridge Union Society for the event on 3 June.

Pandemic! A public event

EMBL-EBI organises an evening of talks and discussion about the global spread of infectious disease.

2015

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10 June 2015 CERN openlab

EMBL-EBI joins CERN openlab

Lab Matters CERN openlab enters a new phase, expanding to include EMBL-EBI and other public research organisations.

2015

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3 June 2015 What is ORCID? A sketchnote

Why you need an ORCID

Lab Matters Jenny Cham blogs about how ORCID helps distinguish her from all the other Jenny Chams in the world.

2015

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2 June 2015 HMMER algorithm now available through EMBL-EBI

A powerful HMMER for data mining

Lab Matters HMMER – a fast, sensitive search tool – helps find sequence relationships deep in evolutionary time.

2015

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27 May 2015

ELIXIR accelerates

Lab Matters ELIXIR receives major Horizon 2020 funding to ‘EXCELERATE' activities over the next four years.

2015

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11 March 2015

New Joint Directors of EMBL-EBI

Lab Matters Rolf Apweiler and Ewan Birney appointed Joint Directors of EMBL-EBI, as Janet Thornton steps down.

2015

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8 March 2015 Sex in Science Award 2015

Supporting women in science

Lab Matters Wellcome Genome Campus gives first Best Practice Award for Supporting Women in Science.

2015

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27 February 2015 Dr Jeffrey Barrett

Jeffrey Barrett to lead CTTV

Lab Matters Jeffrey Barrett appointed Director of CTTV, the GSK, EMBL-EBI and Sanger Institute partnership.

2015

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28 January 2015 Gene expression in 20 mammals

Why is a dolphin not a cat?

How repurposing non-coding elements in the genome gave rise to the great ‘mammalian radiation’.

2015

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20 January 2015 COMPARE project

Beyond COMPARE

Lab Matters New project aims to speed up detection and response to disease outbreaks using genome technology.

2015

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8 January 2015 yourgenome.org

Relaunching YourGenome.org

Lab Matters EMBL-EBI supports relaunch of yourgenome.org, to bring genetics advances to a wider audience.

2015

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28 November 2014 WormBase Parasite

Record parasitic worm dataset

Largest collection of helminth genomic data ever assembled, in new open-access WormBase ParaSite.

2014

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27 November 2014

Argentina: EMBL in action

Lab Matters Workshops, seminars and honorary lectures – strong start for EMBL’s newest associate member state.

2014

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21 November 2014

Big biology, big success

EMBL-EBI supports Big Biology Day, inspiring 500 youngsters with jelly-baby DNA and golf-tee viruses.

2014

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4 November 2014

Big (Protein) Data to Knowledge

Lab Matters 'Big Data to Knowledge' project by UCLA, Scripps and EMBL-EBI to transform protein data to knowledge.

2014

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4 November 2014 EMPIAR logo

Building an EMPIAR

EMPIAR lets researchers take a closer look at the images used to build 3D molecular structures.

2014

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21 October 2014 Map of EMBL-EBI users

Job dispatched

Lab Matters How does EMBL-EBI run millions of jobs for its users while moving its two large data centres?

2014

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17 October 2014 Nick Goldman and Charlotte Davies

Music of the spheres

Lab Matters Music, bubbles and DNA: a collaborative project brings artist and scientist together

2014

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17 October 2014 Sarah Teichmann. PHOTO: UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Awards & Honours

Lab Matters EMBL scientists regularly receive prestigious awards - meet the latest honourees

2014

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8 October 2014

EU Codefest

Pooling programming and problem-solving expertise in bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI.

2014

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10 September 2014 Gibbon genome sequenced

Gibbon genome joins Ensembl

Gibbon genome gives insights into evolution of this singing, swinging, tree-dwelling ape.

2014

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10 September 2014 RNAcentral launched

RNAcentral Station

RNAcentral is the first unified resource for all types of non-coding RNA data.

2014

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18 August 2014 Artist Stephen John Wright

Art inspired by data science

Lab Matters Artist Stephen Wright gifts artwork inspired by DNA storage research to EMBL-EBI.

2014

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8 August 2014

New, improved human genome

Ensembl has incorporated a vast amount of knowledge into a fully annotated reference human genome

2014

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31 July 2014 Global Alliance for Genomics and Health

New genomics API

Lab Matters New genomics API allows researchers to share anonymised genetic data seamlessly across platforms.

2014

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1 July 2014

The shape of things to come

New ways of handling and distributing data at PDBe to tackle ever larger and more complex proteins

2014

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1 July 2014 Illustration: Aad Goudappel, Rotterdam

Five for the future

Lab Matters Scientists from EMBL's five sites reflect on the opportunities and challenges that might lie ahead

2014

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1 July 2014 Question mark

Q&A

Lab Matters Which scientific breakthroughs would EMBL scientists most like to see in the next 40 years?

2014

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25 June 2014

On target

ConnectionsLab Matters A new EMBL-EBI biomedical initiative works to determine the best target proteins for new drugs.

2014

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21 June 2014 Ocean Sampling Day 2014

Capturing marine biodiversity

Science & Technology Data from first ever worldwide Ocean Sampling Day will be shared via EMBL-EBI resources this autumn.

2014

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25 May 2014

Insights into genetics of cleft lip

Science & Technology How a DNA stretch influences face formation and contributes to common congenital malformations

2014

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9 May 2014

How immune cells use steroids

Science & Technology Genome Campus researchers discover that some immune cells turn themselves off by producing a steroid.

2014

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24 April 2014

Tsetse fly genome sequenced

Science & Technology Tsetse fly genome sequenced; scientists hope to find new ways to control sleeping sickness.

2014

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12 January 2012

Evolution by ‘copy-paste’

Science & Technology A team of geneticists and computational biologists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cancer Research UK reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome…

2012

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14 September 2011

Five countries and EMBL sign Memorandum of Understanding to make ELIXIR a reality

Lab Matters Today marks an important step for ELIXIR, Europe’s emerging research infrastructure for life-science information, as five countries plus the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to catalyse the implementation and construction of ELIXIR. The…

2011

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