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EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) manages the world’s most comprehensive suite of open data resources for the life sciences. Millions of scientists worldwide rely on these data resources. The breadth of usage has been expanding year on year, as researchers generate increasing…
2025
announcements
Case study shows the economic value and impact of UniProt, showing estimated annual gains of up to €5,475 per user.
2025
announcements
Reactome open data resource for biological pathways gets seal of approval.
2025
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The Data Hubs Portal is a new interface that enables users to setup and manage pre-release and/or public Data Hubs at the ENA.
2025
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The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB) now integrates The Encyclopedia of Domains (TED), a resource designed to systematically identify and classify structural domains within AlphaFold-predicted protein structures. TED provides domain boundaries for 365 million domains across more than one…
2025
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Francesco talks about his work in protein science, fascination for protein design, and how he's finding the EMBL International PhD programme.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
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Blog post by Eleni Tzampatzopoulou, EMBL-EBI Impact Manager In summer 2024, EMBL-EBI ran a user survey, inviting our community to let us know how they use the open data resources we jointly manage with our collaborators. With over 2,300 responses from 126 countries, we were delighted by the depth…
2024
announcements
In the era of data-driven biology, integrating information from different resources is essential yet often challenging. The BioChemGraph project addresses this challenge by creating infrastructure that consolidates structural, functional, and biochemical annotations for small molecules and their…
2024
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Ensembl 113 brings major gene and regulatory feature annotation updates in Homo sapiens (human) and Mus musculus (mouse).
2024
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Creators of AI system AlphaFold receive 2024 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2024
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EMBL-EBI’s microbiome data resource MGnify produces a valuable trove of protein sequence data through its ongoing analysis of microbiome derived data. Two new MGnify Proteins web resources make this dataset easily accessible and searchable, both for large queries across the entire database…
2024
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EMBL-EBI's new Head of Research shares his plans and priorities.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2024
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Where to start when thinking about the sustainability of informatics projects
2023
perspectives
Large language models are changing the way we carry out scientific data curation, annotation, and research, setting the stage for a more efficient understanding of scientific literature
EMBLetc2023
Users no longer need to download large datasets with the new galleries feature
2023
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The latest Expression Atlas release is now live and contains a wider range of RNA-seq and proteomics datasets.
2023
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Construction begins on EMBL-EBI's new building named after Janet Thornton.
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2023
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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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New framework to improve the FAIRness of clinical and molecular datasets
2023
perspectives
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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Postdoctoral researcher Carolin Sauer is leveraging long-read sequencing to develop new detection methods for various cancers.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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Understanding chromothripsis offers insights into how cancer develops.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Why open data from model organisms is essential for rare disease research.
2023
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The Open Global Data Citation Corpus will become a central place for research data citations, and include accession numbers supplied by Europe PMC.
2023
announcements
Jo McEntyre talks about data services, open data and a new era for research assessment.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2023
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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.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Open data played a pivotal role in the development of the AlphaFold AI. The same open principles now apply to AlphaFold predictions.
2023
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New agreement with UN organisation will enable cooperation in the fields of open science, capacity building, and talent development
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2023
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Open Targets is using artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and prioritise drug targets.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2023
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Open data resources that enable global research and development recognised by the Global Biodata Coalition.
2022
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Unveiling a useful tool for understanding human lung development.
2022
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Our experts discuss the importance of open science for food security and preserving global biodiversity.
2022
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Data continues to be available in BioStudies.
2022
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Cell biologist Anthony Hyman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis and John Jumper were announced among 25 Breakthrough Prize recipients
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2022
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Ewan Birney, Deputy Director General of EMBL and Director of EMBL-EBI, reveals the key factors that enabled AlphaFold to change the world of biology.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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AlphaFold database offers a look at 3D protein universe.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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The Ensembl 107 release contains updates to regulatory annotations and updated vertebrate and metazoan species.
2022
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Funding set to support data resources for key areas of antimicrobial resistance, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity loss
2022
announcements
Fergal Martin discusses the importance of open access data and his work in different biodiversity initiatives
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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Janet Thornton, the inaugural winner of the FEBS Journal Open Science Award, explains the importance and impact of open science.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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How text mining collaborations benefit our research, data resources, and the wider scientific community.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Peter Harrison discusses the importance of data accessibility and his passion for biodiversity and agricultural genomics.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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Virginie Uhlmann shares her tips for using deep learning for bioimage analysis in the life sciences.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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EMBO Director Fiona Watt discusses preprints, data sharing, and evaluation in light of EMBL’s new Open Science policy
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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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
announcements
Researchers from the MANE collaboration bring you the most comprehensive human genome annotation dataset to date.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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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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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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The African BioGenome Project aims to safeguard biodiversity and build bioinformatics capacity across Africa
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Deep learning models can improve protein annotations and has helped expand the Pfam database.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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Open Targets, a consortium focused on drug target identification, prioritisation, and validation, announced today that Pfizer has joined as a partner.
CONNECTIONS2022
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An exploration of where in the world genomics methods are applied and where the data are used.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2022
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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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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.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2022
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A look back at some of the 2021 highlights from the Darwin Tree of Life partner institutes.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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EMBL announces the release of its new Open Science Policy, contributing to positive culture change across the life sciences.
LAB MATTERS2021
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Independent study reveals that EMBL-EBI open data resources are critical for the life sciences.
LAB MATTERSSCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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The BY-COVID project aims to make infectious disease data, including COVID-19, openly available to everyone.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Profiling M. tuberculosis strains from 27 countries to reveal causes of drug resistance.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Ian Dunham walks us through his career so far including working on the human genome project, seeing his work on the cover of Nature and his current role as Director of Open Targets.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2021
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3D-Beacons Network acts as a one-stop shop for protein structures by combining and standardising data from several providers.
CONNECTIONS2021
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Partners use AlphaFold, the AI system recognised last year as a solution to the protein structure prediction problem, to release more than 350,000 protein structure predictions including the entire human proteome to the scientific community.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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DeepMind and EMBL-EBI to make millions of protein structure predictions freely available to the scientific community.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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A discussion of the applications that AlphaFold DB may enable and the possible impact of the resource on science and society.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Researchers establish a framework for identifying new drugs capable of exploiting a cell’s own machinery.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Scientists from the CABANA project explore how open data is benefiting global research efforts.
CONNECTIONS2021
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Researchers have used human medical and genetic data from UK Biobank to investigate the genetics of age-related diseases
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2021
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Open letter galvanises life science community in support of open COVID-19 data
EMBL ANNOUNCEMENTSLAB MATTERS2021
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Open access data benefits millions of scientists around the world and is essential for a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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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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EMBL-EBI set to launch European COVID-19 Data Platform to help store, share, and analyse research data linked to the COVID-19 pandemic.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2020
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The BioImage Archive - EMBL-EBI's first dedicated imaging data resource
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2019
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Pharmaceutical company Sanofi strengthens drug targets discovery collaboration Open Targets
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2018
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Ioanna Ydraiou and Bernd Pulverer spoke about their view of challenges and opportunities of OA.
LAB MATTERS2018
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New BioModels infrastructure supports significantly more model formats and offers improved search
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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Q&A with EMBL-EBI's Head of Chemical Biology data services
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2017
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Introducing one of the largest collections of high-quality human induced pluripotent stem cells
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2017
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New method combines signalling pathway data resources to improve systems biology research
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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BLUEPRINT: EMBL-EBI and the push to decipher the blood epigenome
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2016
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Independent analysis of EMBL-EBI underscores the value and impact of open data in the life sciences
LAB MATTERS2016
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Pioneering target validation collaboration expands to accelerate drug discovery research.
CONNECTIONSLAB MATTERS2016
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