Science & Technology EMBL-EBI data resources help advance biodiversity and climate change research by enabling scientists to study species interactions, evolutionary processes, ecosystem health, and more.
2024
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People & Perspectives Ewan Birney reflects on his time at EMBL and the development of the organisation through a commitment to open data and nurturing scientific talent.
2024
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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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EMBL Announcements Researchers explore genetic diversity found in ancient environmental DNA to help modern agricultural practices.
2024
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The integration enables researchers to easily access AI-generated scores estimating how likely genetic variants are to be pathogenic
2024
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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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The Ensembl 111 features a range of new Ensembl VEP plugins and updated agricultural, fish, plant and metazoa species.
2024
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives By upskilling researchers on bioinformatics skills and tools, EMBL alumna Emily Perry is helping to make genomic medicine more accessible.
2023
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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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Science & Technology EMBL-EBI data resources are being used to deliver thousands of genetic diagnostics to patients every month.
2023
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Science & Technology A new tool for the interpretation of missense variation in humans – ProtVar – will help enable drug discovery.
2023
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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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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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Science & Technology We look back through some of the 2022 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life project.
2023
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Open data resources that enable global research and development recognised by the Global Biodata Coalition.
2022
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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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European experts gather to launch a project that aims to characterise and conserve life on Earth using DNA data.
2022
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The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.
2022
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ConnectionsLab Matters The African BioGenome Project and EMBL have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to support each other in building genomics and bioinformatics capacity across Africa
2022
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Science & Technology Researchers in the Ensembl team are making the most of machine learning methods to speed up genome annotation pipelines
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
2022
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
2022
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Science & Technology Researchers from the MANE collaboration bring you the most comprehensive human genome annotation dataset to date.
2022
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Science & Technology Our researchers highlight their contributions to the Darwin Tree of Life project and how new genome annotations helps to further biodiversity research
2022
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Science & Technology A look back at some of the 2021 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life partner institutes.
2021
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Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL welcomes Sarah Dyer, the new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader at EMBL-EBI.
2021
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Science & Technology Researchers reveal the best technology for assembling reference genomes.
2021
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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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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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Science & Technology Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first draft of the entire human genome.
2020
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Science & Technology What are the strangest genomes in EMBL-EBI's Ensembl?
2017
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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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Lab Matters GWAS Catalog, originally developed by the NHGRI in the US, moves to EMBL-EBI.
2015
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Science & Technology Reference sheep genome, published by International Sheep Genomics Consortium, available in Ensembl
2014
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Lab Matters 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…
2007
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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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