A new gateway to global antimicrobial resistance data
New online portal connects bacterial genomes with experimental resistance data to support antimicrobial resistance research.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2025
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Global participation in biodata: Building equitable partnerships
New report explores opportunities and blockers for building global biodata partnerships and encouraging participation from scientists in low resource settings.
2025
perspectives
Global effort to sequence all life on Earth ramps up
The Earth BioGenome Project is accelerating its efforts tenfold to sequence all life on Earth by 2035.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2025
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Ensembl 115 and Ensembl Genomes 62 released
Ensembl 115 release adds new protein-coding transcripts to the GRCh38 human reference gene set, plus new breeds of cattle and plant species.
2025
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Welcome: Emily Clark
EMBL-EBI’s new Genome Analysis Team Leader explores the potential of AI and pangenomes to enhance comparative genomics at EMBL-EBI.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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Ensembl 114 and Ensembl Genomes 61 have been released
Ensembl 114 introduces the updated MANE set v1.4 for GRCh38, many new and updated genomes, and more.
2025
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GA4GH announces refget Sequence Collections
The new GA4GH refget Sequence Collections helps streamline reference genome management.
2025
technology-and-innovation
Ensembl 113 and Ensembl Genomes 60 have been released
Ensembl 113 brings major gene and regulatory feature annotation updates in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse).
2024
updates-from-data-resources
EMBL-EBI’s open data resources for biodiversity and climate research
EMBL-EBI data resources help advance biodiversity and climate change research by enabling scientists to study species interactions, evolutionary processes, ecosystem health, and more.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
science-technologytechnology-and-innovation
The EMBL evolution: Ewan Birney on open data and the ethos of excellence
Ewan Birney reflects on his time at EMBL and the development of the organisation through a commitment to open data and nurturing scientific talent.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Welcome: Mallory Freeberg
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.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Ancient environmental DNA provides solutions for global food security challenges
Researchers explore genetic diversity found in ancient environmental DNA to help modern agricultural practices.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2024
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AlphaMissense data integrated into Ensembl, UniProt, DECIPHER and AlphaFold DB
The integration enables researchers to easily access AI-generated scores estimating how likely genetic variants are to be pathogenic
2024
technology-and-innovation
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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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
updates-from-data-resources
EMBL alumni: Emily Perry on filling the skills gap to advance genomic medicine
By upskilling researchers on bioinformatics skills and tools, EMBL alumna Emily Perry is helping to make genomic medicine more accessible.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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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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Genomic medicine: ushering in a new era in healthcare
EMBL-EBI data resources are being used to deliver thousands of genetic diagnostics to patients every month.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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ProtVar: understanding missense variation in humans
A new tool for the interpretation of missense variation in humans – ProtVar – will help enable drug discovery.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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A more diverse human reference genome
The human pangenome – one of the most complete collections of genome sequences released so far – captures rich human diversity.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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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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Darwin Tree of Life: first 500 genome assemblies released as project creates a buzz
We look back through some of the 2022 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life project.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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EMBL-EBI databases considered critical to life sciences
Open data resources that enable global research and development recognised by the Global Biodata Coalition.
2022
announcementsscience
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
updates-from-data-resources
Biodiversity Genomics Europe: addressing biodiversity loss through genomics
European experts gather to launch a project that aims to characterise and conserve life on Earth using DNA data.
2022
announcementsscience
Ensembl 107 has been released
The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.
2022
updates-from-data-resources
Supporting the African BioGenome Project to build bioinformatics capacity
The African BioGenome Project and EMBL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other in building genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2022
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A machine learning approach for allocating gene function
Researchers in the Ensembl team are making the most of machine learning methods to speed up genome annotation pipelines
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Fergal Martin – Eukaryotic Annotation Team Leader
Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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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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The MANE collaboration: working together to support genome science
Researchers from the MANE collaboration bring you the most comprehensive human genome annotation dataset to date.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Darwin Tree of Life at EMBL-EBI: reaching the first major milestone
Our researchers highlight their contributions to the Darwin Tree of Life project and how new genome annotations helps to further biodiversity research
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Darwin Tree of Life in 2021: tireless fieldwork and the first beautiful genomes
A look back at some of the 2021 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life partner institutes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Welcome: Sarah Dyer
EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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Piecing together the best reference genome
Researchers reveal the best technology for assembling reference genomes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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The curious genome of the tuatara, an ancient reptile in peril
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.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Two EMBL scientists become EMBO Members
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.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2020
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Five things you probably didn’t know about the Human Genome Project
Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first draft of the entire human genome.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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Curious genomes
What are the strangest genomes in EMBL-EBI's Ensembl?
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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EMBL in pictures
A snapshot of the many activities and events that took place in the world of EMBL this Autumn.
LAB MATTERS2015
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GWAS Catalog moves to EMBL-EBI
GWAS Catalog, originally developed by the NHGRI in the US, moves to EMBL-EBI.
LAB MATTERS2015
lab-matters
Sheep genome provides rich resource for agricultural research
Reference sheep genome, published by International Sheep Genomics Consortium, available in Ensembl
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2014
sciencescience-technology
ArrayExpress database doubles in size to 100,000 hybridisations
ArrayExpress, the publicly available database of transcriptomics data at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), has doubled in size in 2007, reaching the 100,000-hybridisation milestone. The database now holds snapshots of gene expression…
LAB MATTERS2007
lab-matters
Double recognition of EBI scientists by the ISCB
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…
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTS2005
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