Rolf Apweiler: what I’ve learned
From student helper to EMBL-EBI Director, Rolf Apweiler has shaped the journey of EMBL and bioinformatics for over four decades.
PEOPLE & PERSPECTIVES2025
people-perspectivesperspectives
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
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
Deciphering the data deluge: how large language models are transforming scientific data curation
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
2023
technology-and-innovation
Major user experience update in AlphaFold Database
The AlphaFold Database boasts improved user experience, including better search filters and an improved 3D viewer.
2023
updates-from-data-resources
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
sciencescience-technologytechnology-and-innovation
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
Natural language processing for rapid protein annotation
Over 40 million protein annotations have been added to the UniProt database using a Google Research natural language processing model.
2022
technology-and-innovation
Enzyme research made easier
Enzyme Portal makes it easier to explore all enzyme-related data in EMBL-EBI’s public resources.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2015
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
Uncovering the secrets of the deep
The UniProt Consortium, which includes the European Molecular Biology Laboratory’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), has added a new database repository for metagenomic and environmental data to its family of protein sequence databases. Metagenomics is the large-scale genomic…
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY2007
sciencescience-technology
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