Closing the loop for reproducible science: 🧬 Data ➔ 🤖 Models ➔ 📏 Benchmarks As AI transforms biology, EMBL-EBI is building the infrastructure to ensure models are as rigorous as the data behind them. What’s your biggest challenge when validating AI models? www.embl.org/news/science...

Who funds UK health research? Where? And how is investment changing? MRC and Europe PMC are building a dashboard to make UK health research funding data easier to find, compare and reuse. Read more: blog.europepmc.org/2026/09/buil...

🚨Two weeks left to apply! There’s still time to apply for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme. Choose from one of our available projects or propose your own. Deadline: 27 September. www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

Cancer research will shift from tracking how tumors grew to predicting how they will evolve in the future. Here is how our Research Group Leader @timcoorens.bsky.social sees the field evolving over the next 25 years. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #CancerResearch

AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) scores, developed by Google DeepMind, predict how likely variants across the whole human genome are to impact gene regulation. AVI scores are available in the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor to enable easy access into variant analysis workflows.

Is there a ‘right’ age to start a PhD? Our PhD fellow Anna Foix doesn't think so. Anna pivoted from software to academia. Once worried that her computer science background wouldn’t fit a life in research, she has since realised it’s a huge asset, as AI becomes more central to biology.

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What is the best time to start a PhD? No time like the present. After years as a software developer, Anna Foix joined our International PhD Programme and now uses deep learning to decode biological insights from shape in microscopy images. Anna’s story 👇 www.embl.org/news/people-...

Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! 📣 At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us! 🔎 Read more and apply here: bit.ly/4x9Edss

Are you looking for a research opportunity that combines wet and dry-lab experience? Then don’t miss your chance to apply for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme. Applications close on 27 September. 📌 Learn more & apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

Congratulations to our former Director, Dame Janet Thornton! @royalsociety.org has awarded Janet the Croonian Medal and Lecture for her pioneering work in protein & structural bioinformatics. The award recognises the key role of big data & bioinformatics in the life sciences. tinyurl.com/3sdr3xhp

Are you looking for a career that allows you to improve the core facilities, data services and research infrastructures that life sciences depend on? Don’t miss your chance to apply for the ARISE2 Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme! Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Meet Rajat Bhatnagar 🇮🇳, Quality Assurance Automation Engineer at @europepmc.org. Rajat builds tools to automatically detect software bugs before changes go live. Learn about test automation and how rock & folk-pop covers are a perfect counterbalance to debugging 🎸 www.embl.org/news/perspec...

Explore genes & transcripts with the @Ensembl Feature Explorer! Using human BRCA2 as an example, learn how to explore transcripts, exon structure & sequences, external references and orthologues across species. zurl.co/Q5YoZ #Ensembl #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Demo: Navigating the Feature explorer app

Learn how to explore genes and transcripts using the Ensembl Feature Explorer app.In this tutorial, we use the human BRCA2 gene as an example to demonstrate ...

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Every rare disease diagnosis relies on open data most people never see. Our new impact report explores how Genomics England's sequencing pipeline depends on EMBL-EBI’s open data resources. 🖥️🧬 s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202... @genomicsengland.bsky.social @ensembl.org

Redesigning a website with the help of AI: 👍 or 👎? Find out what our @rfamdb.bsky.social colleagues made of the experience. We’d love to hear your thoughts and experience in the comments. @rnacentral.bsky.social www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...

Explore genomes with the new Ensembl Data Platform! In this demo, see how to: Select a genome Find information about your selected genome Watch the demo and start exploring: zurl.co/qtSwQ #Ensembl #Genomics #Bioinformatics

Demo: How to select a genome in the new Ensembl data platform

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Meet Sam Shingles 🇬🇧, who helps connect local communities with the world of genomics and biodata. As a Public Engagement Officer, Sam brings a unique perspective from astrophysics, focusing on demystifying AI and ensuring public engagement is a two-way conversation. www.embl.org/news/people-...

Big news for European biodiversity conservation. Three major scientific communities have signed a landmark agreement through the @biogeneurope.bsky.social (BGE+) project to build a continent-wide infrastructure for biodiversity genomics. www.embl.org/news/science... #biodiversity #EUPolicy

Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌 #LifeSciences #EMBL

📣 We're recruiting for the EMBL-EBI-Sanger Postdoctoral (ESPOD) programme! ESPOD builds on the collaborative relationship between EMBL-EBI and the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, offering projects that combine wet and dry-lab experience. Learn more & apply: www.ebi.ac.uk/research/pos...

Five years ago, the #AlphaFold Database, a collaboration with Google DeepMind, made predicted protein structures free for everyone to use. Today, the database contains over 260 million structure predictions and is used by more than 3.5 million researchers in 190 countries around the world.

Six months after joining EMBL-EBI, Cath Brooksbank accidentally deleted the Gene Ontology knowledgebase – then reinstated it at 6 p.m. on a Friday. Her willingness to step into the unfamiliar and own it defines Cath’s career. Her lessons on trust and training below 👇 www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...

Cath Brooksbank: What I’ve learned

After building one of the world’s leading bioinformatics training programmes, Cath Brooksbank reflects on trust and how to never lose your enthusiasm for science

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What if you could predict your chance of developing a disease years before symptoms appear? An AI model can estimate long-term disease risk for more than 1,000 medical conditions and could help inform how a person's health changes over time. #EMBL_AI

The annual DECIPHER user survey is now available ! Please, help us to improve DECIPHER by taking 5 minutes to answer. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... This is a new survey so don’t hesitate to answer it even if you had completed it last year.

Out now in Nature Metabolism! 🖥️🧬 An Open Targets project has identified a set of plasma proteins that could be used to diagnose and monitor patients with Metabolic dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) www.nature.com/articles/s42...

A data-driven framework reconstructs the molecular continuum of human MASLD progression - Nature Metabolism

A trajectory-based molecular framework reveals coordinated temporal shifts in metabolic, inflammatory and fibrogenic mechanisms across the human MASLD spectrum.

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DECIPHER version 11.40 has been released. See the new features at www.deciphergenomics.org #variantinterpretation

Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? We have two biological curators in the ChEMBL team, and over the course of this week, we'll look at typical activities one day at a time. We begin with Monday… chembl.blogspot.com/2026/07/a-we... #cheminformatics #chembl

A week in the Life of a ChEMBL Biological Curator - Monday

This image was generated using AI. Ever wonder what a biological curator for ChEMBL does? Read on to find out what we were up to during th...

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⚡ @cbioportal.bsky.social lands at EGA ⚡ The widely used platform, designed to simplify the exploration of complex cancer genomic data, is now connected to EGA! Discover what this means for researchers in our latest blog post: 🔗 blog.ega-archive.org/cbioportal

Meet Dal Nijjer, 🇬🇧 Product Manager & Coordinator at Europe PMC. Dal went from bookselling to helping researchers navigate millions of scientific papers. Discover how Dal’s team uses AI to make literature search more intuitive and why he loves bouldering 🧗& interior design 🛋️ tinyurl.com/3kk2m2mc

Are you going to #ISMB2026? 🧬🌎 Don’t miss your chance to find out about our latest training, services, research highlights and more at this year’s ISMB conference in Washington D.C. from 12-16 July.

What happens when you take a Nobel Prize-winning AI and make its predictions free for everyone to use? A new independent report shows that papers using the AlphaFold Database span a wider range of fields than those using the algorithm alone. s.embl.org/EMBL-EBI-202...