How do continuously growing teeth withstand constant mechanical load? New FaceBase data identify a KDM6B–BMI1–PIEZO1 "mechanostat" that shields incisor progenitors from stress-induced apoptosis. Bulk RNA-seq + Cut&Run-seq, Chai lab, USC. www.facebase.org/2026/07/30/r...

A new release of the Symptom Ontology (v2026-07-30) is now available with 895 symptoms 🎉 github.com/DiseaseOntol... ❗️NOTE that OBO and JSON file formats have been updated as described for the Disease Ontology: bsky.app/profile/dise... #SymptomOntology #bioinformatics #symptoms

Release Symptom Ontology v2026-07-30 · DiseaseOntology/SymptomOntology

This release of the Symptom Ontology includes 895 classes, 424 with textual definitions (47.4%), with the addition of tenderness. Full Changelog: v2024-05-17...v2026-07-30

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🔍 Check out SGD's redesigned search landing page! Improved autocomplete, quick category browsing, and highlights of newly added literature & recent annotations. 🔴 Click the big red "Explore SGD" button on the SGD homepage or just hit return in an empty search box 👉 www.yeastgenome.org/search

The 36th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2026) brought the global Arabidopsis community together in June. 🧪 Here are the moments that have stayed with us ⤵️ phoenixbioinfo.org/reflecting-o... #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Arabidopsis

#zebrafish genome update: So for those of you waiting for RefSeq annotations to hit the GRCz12ab genome, UCSC has generated annotations via BLAST based on the RefSeq RNA's generated for TU.

Dr. Roberto Mayor of University College London, UK was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society and awarded the Society for Developmental Biology Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize. www.xenbase.org/xenbase/doNe... #science #devbio #cellbio #xenopus #frogs

Galaxy is part of the AnVIL Community Conference 2026! 🌌 Join ACC2026, Aug 31–Sept 1 in Cambridge, MA, to explore genomic data science, cloud computing, reproducible workflows, data access, and tools across the AnVIL ecosystem. Register: bit.ly/anvil2026-register Learn more: bit.ly/anvil2026

AnVIL Community Conference 2026

Join us in Cambridge, MA to hear the latest and greatest of genomics analysis in the cloud and get hands-on experience with AnVIL.

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It's that time again! Join us for our Office Hours tomorrow: 📅 Wednesday, July 29, 1 pm ET / 10 am PT Zoom with FaceBase team members and ask questions about finding data, submitting data, citing data, and more things data! Click here to register: usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Excited to see this from the i5K consortium out today! Culmination of a comprehensive effort analyzing standards and best practices for genome projects, the extent of their adoption, and recommendations for the future. Personal thanks to everyone who volunteered time/effort to make this happen!

Rob Waterhouse@rmwaterhouse.bsky.social · 2w ago

The #Arthropod #Genomics i5K Community -🦋🧬🕷️🧬🪲🧬🦀- opportunities to harmonise reporting standards & promote their dissemination, ensuring that future arthropod #genomes are both comparable & maximally reusable for large-scale comparative & applied research academic.oup.com/genetics/adv...

Look forward to reviewing some datasets with everyone!

PREreview@prereview.bsky.social · 2w ago

🎉 We’re celebrating #PeerReviewWeek with a Review-a-thon! Gather your lab, classroom, department, or community to review preprints or datasets as a team, in any language or research field. You can win a prize to support your Club's activities! Learn more & register by Aug. 31: bit.ly/Review-a-thon

📣#PlantBio2026 highlight: Plant Bioinformatics Resources for FAIR Agricultural Data Discovery and Reuse Workshop Session!🌱 plantbiology2026.eventscribe.net/index.asp #plantscience #plantsci

#CommunityResource: Pollen longevity and viability dataset: an integrated resource for plant research and conservation Winther, Lange and Rosbakh 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue #PlantScience

The Summer 2026 DDI Newsletter is here! ➡️ Relive the Annual Meeting with newly released recordings and slides. ➡️ See how DDI is powering the future of AI-ready metadata and global standards. ➡️ More: https://mailchi.mp/umich/ddi-community-newsletter-summer-2026 #DDIAlliance #Metadata #OpenScience

👉Species-specific enzyme evolution: Human MINDY3's EF-hand domain serves dual purpose, binding long ubiquitin chains AND recruiting DNA repair factors. Comparison to #Yeast homolog Miy2 reveals different cleavage patterns across species 🧬 #YeastResearch 🧪 #SGD 🔬 www.yeastgenome.org/reference/S1...

We are offering a Release Notes preview for Alliance release 9.1.0. This release is NOT LIVE yet. We're making some changes to some API endpoints and downloadable file formats, and want users & developers to be aware of them ahead of time. Details here: www.alliancegenome.org/release-notes

#BOSC2026 has begun! Our first session at #ISMB2026 is a joint session with @bokr.bsky.social. In his talk about KGXVal, Daniel Korn addressed something many of us have wondered about: why do turkeys have math anxiety? 🦃➗😰

Jeet presenting poster 3387 on Glycan Structure Terms and biomarker annotation at #ISMB2026. Come chat with us about glycan data standards, annotation, and interoperability. #glycoscience #bioinformatics

🧬 We know how to generate high-quality reference genomes. The bigger challenge is deciding which species to sequence next. As biodiversity genomics scales, strategic species selection will have as much impact as sequencing technology itself. #Genomics #Biodiversity #EarthBioGenomeProject

#BOSC2026 organizers @nomiharris.bsky.social, @monimunozto.bsky.social, and @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social based in the turquoise glow during the opening keynote at #ISMB2026

🐦 Why are bird genomes so difficult to assemble? Birds have dozens of tiny, gene-rich microchromosomes that are frequently fragmented, misplaced, or missing from genome assemblies despite containing important genetic information. 📖 Read the publication: lnkd.in/gar-GrKZ #BirdGenomics #Biodiversity

26 years ago today, the first public assembly of the human genome went online at UC Santa Cruz. Today, we release version 500 of the UCSC Genome Browser. From Jim Kent's first assembly to thousands of genomes, the data is still free and open. genome.ucsc.edu/gold...

EpiBinder: a multimodal framework for cell-type-specific prediction and interpretation of transcription factor binding https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.06.736502v1

BioFAIR has committed £4M to build the Methods Commons – a national hub for FAIR computational workflows. Built on foundations ELIXIR-UK members have championed for years. Led by Carole Goble, ELIXIR-UK Joint Head of Node elixiruknode.org/news/2026/bi...

BioFAIR's new £4M Methods Commons builds on foundations ELIXIR-UK helped lay | ELIXIR-UK

BioFAIR has committed £4 million to a national Methods Commons for FAIR workflows, led by Carole Goble and partly built on ELIXIR-UK foundations.

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RGD website will be down for maintenance starting at 11am. We anticipate about a 15 minute interruption.

🧬 As biodiversity faces unprecedented challenges, high-quality reference #genomes preserve invaluable biological knowledge for future generations. Together, EBP affiliates are building the genomic foundation for #discoveries in #evolution, #conservation, agriculture, #biotechnology, and beyond.

The Zebrafish International Resource Center (#ZIRC) has taken the feedback from the first survey and now created a second survey to better meet the #zebrafish community's needs. Take the survey here or use the QR Code below: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon... #ZebrafishSurvey #IZFS

Missed the GlySpace webinar? Richard Steet's talk on gain-of-glycosylation variants in lysosomal disease is on YouTube: youtu.be/BzkxPdF3NCI. We're planning a GlyGen training on gain/loss variant data soon—stay tuned.

Richard Steet GlySpace Alliance Webinar Series May30 2026

Functional Characterization of Lysosomal Gene Variants: Delineating the Impact of Gain-of-Glycosylation Variants and Amenability to Therapy. As part of our ongoing efforts to functionally…

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🧬New in Nature: leading experts (@jenniferdoudna.bsky.social, @euanashley.bsky.social, @benedictpaten.bsky.social) call for a new medical genome standard that uses diploid sequences & pangenome graphs instead of a single reference for improving clinical diagnostics 👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Harmonizing standards and resources for the medical genome - Nature

This Perspective examines the challenges and opportunities of genomic sequencing across multiple clinical applications, including genetic therapies, and calls for the establishment of new, centra...

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Which variants are common in your ancestry but rare globally? New on hg38: SNV Frequencies. Over 1.2 billion variants pooled from ~1.5M people across 30+ cohorts, including population references, biobanks, and disease case/control studies. Learn more: bit.ly/GBsnvFrequencies

ICYMI, Now Available! Data from the Study of Disability Services Coordinators in Head Start, 2022 (DSC Study), National Data, Regions I-XII, [United States] (ICPSR 39415). More: https://myumi.ch/mR5Dn #CFData