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26 November 2024

Complex Portal expands Human Complexome with ML-predicted human protein complexes

The Complex Portal – an encyclopaedic resource of macromolecular complexes from key model organisms – has expanded its coverage of the Human Complexome. This includes: To find out more, read the new paper entitled Complex Portal 2025: Predicted human complexes and enhanced visualisation tools…

2024

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13 November 2024 Illustration showing a human gut floating over a scale resting on a microchip labelled ‘AI’. The two sides of the scale show a varying number of bacteria, shown against a backdrop of 0s and 1s.

Microbial load can influence disease associations

Science & Technology Scientists have developed a new machine-learning model to predict microbial load — the density of microbes in our guts — and used it to demonstrate how microbial load plays an important role in disease-microbiome associations.

2024

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8 October 2024

Machine learning discoveries honoured with 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics

Science & Technology The prize was awarded to John J. Hopfield, Princeton University, USA, and Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto, Canada, for their seminal contributions to the foundational methods that enabled the development of machine learning.

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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22 November 2023 Oliver Stegle passionately drawing work-related content with a green pen on a whiteboard. On the whiteboard, there are coordinates and equations, such as “n=2”.

How AI shapes the life sciences: an interview with Oliver Stegle

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL scientist Oliver Stegle explains how AI-based tools have the potential to transform our ability to better understand the complexity of life and how these tools will shape the future of life science exploration.

2023

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28 September 2023 Visual of AlphaFold Protein prediction, embedded into a visual of scientific data

EMBL receives German AI prize

EMBL Announcements EMBL receives the German AI prize awarded for outstanding services to the research and development as well as application and commercialisation of artificial intelligence (AI) in life science research.

2023

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15 May 2023 A section of electron microscopy volume of a Platynereis larvae. Different colours mark different cell groups.

Visualising biology: new tools of the trade

EMBLetc EMBL researchers are pushing the frontiers of big data analysis in biological imaging, allowing scientists to gain a many-layered and multidimensional view of organisms, tissues, and cells in action.

2023

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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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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5 October 2021 Illustration of a globe with colourful shapes and symbols superimposed.

A cellular atlas of an entire worm

Science & Technology EMBL scientists and colleagues have developed an interactive atlas of the entire marine worm Platynereis dumerilii in its larval stage. The PlatyBrowser resource combines high-resolution gene expression data with volume electron microscopy images.

2021

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15 September 2021 A dark blue classic star map view is overlaid upon scientific data

Charting a multi-omic universe

Science & Technology A research collaboration used machine learning to map tumour molecular make-up, potentially paving way to more customised cancer treatment.

2021

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17 June 2021 Three researchers surround microscopy equipment in a dark room with red lighting.

Illuminating protein complexes in cells

Lab MattersPeople & Perspectives EMBL group leaders Julia Mahamid, Anna Kreshuk & Jonas Ries awarded Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant to advance what we see inside cells.

2021

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2 December 2020 Dark purple image with flashes of orange, gold, pink and paler purple that look a bit like lightning with a small sun-like image in the upper right section of the image

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative recognises EMBL scientists

EMBL AnnouncementsLab Matters The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has recognised four EMBL researchers with their most recent awards, showing how tech trailblazers are integral to advancing science and medicine.

2020

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31 August 2020 3D image of plant cells. The ones identified by the algorithm are brightly coloured.

Intelligent software tackles plant cell jigsaw

Science & Technology Starting with computer code and moving on to a more user-friendly graphical interface called PlantSeg, the Kreshuk Group at EMBL and collaborators built a simple open-access method to provide the most accurate and versatile analysis of plant tissue development to date.

2020

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19 August 2020 An embryo of the fruit fly Drosophila.

Predicting how gene expression varies

Science & Technology Discoveries at EMBL will help researchers to interpret one of the most common types of experiments in genomics and medical studies.

2020

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6 August 2020 Logo of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems. Left: A chalkboard drawing of Europe. Right: the letters E L L I S in different colours.

Bridging artificial intelligence and the life sciences – launch of ELLIS Heidelberg

Lab MattersScience & Technology Researchers from all life science disciplines – from fundamental biological research to medical applications – generate immense datasets. Analysing these datasets and gaining new knowledge from them is a growing challenge for scientists. The fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…

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 April 2018 Anna Kreshuk

Welcome: Anna Kreshuk

People & Perspectives New Heidelberg group leader creates tools to help biologists work faster and better

2018

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