12 September 2024
Traditional sequence search methods are fast and efficient but rely solely on comparing amino acid sequences. This approach can miss crucial insights because proteins with similar functions can have vastly different sequences. Although their sequences have diverged, these proteins often retain 3D…
2024
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11 September 2024
Julia Mahamid and Nassos Typas reflect on the direction of the Molecular Systems Biology Unit they now lead at EMBL Heidelberg.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
12 March 2024
Team Leader Sameer Velankar on why accessible training is key for AlphaFold and AI tools more generally.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2024
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26 October 2023
In response to user community demands, the AlphaFold Protein Structure database has introduced sequence-based search and cluster members.
2023
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23 February 2022
Michael Dorrity, one of EMBL’s newest group leaders, is studying how the environment influences early life stages in zebrafish.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2022
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28 October 2021
Svetlana Dodonova is one of EMBL's newest group leaders, leading a team of researchers who will study how genetic material is organised inside cells using structural biology approaches.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2021
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30 July 2021
Distinctions recognise Peer’s development and sharing of bioinformatics tools as well as his significant contributions to bioinformatics research, education, and services.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2021
lab-matterspeople-perspectives
18 January 2021
The EMBL Imaging Centre is scheduled to open in 2021 with Timo Zimmermann as Team Leader for advanced light microscopy technology development and service provision.
LAB MATTERSPEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES
2021
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19 August 2020
Discoveries at EMBL will help researchers to interpret one of the most common types of experiments in genomics and medical studies.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2020
sciencescience-technology
4 November 2019
New possibilities for gene therapies
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2019
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26 November 2009
What are the bare essentials of life, the indispensable ingredients required to produce a cell that can survive on its own? Can we describe the molecular anatomy of a cell, and understand how an entire organism functions as a system? These are just some of the questions that scientists in a…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
2009
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