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EMBL-EBI provides open biological data resources and tools, and performs basic research in computational biology.

Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, UK
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EMBL-EBI
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🎂This year we’re celebrating @EMBL ’s 50th anniversary and 30 years of excellence in bioinformatics at EMBL-EBI! We’re thrilled to unveil an anniversary edition of EMBL-EBI's Highlights report showcasing our achievements in 2023. #EMBLEBI30 #EMBL50
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Congratulations to our director, @ewanbirney , for being made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for services to computational #genomics and leadership across the #lifesciences
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🎉New #AlphaFold data! With @DeepMind , we’ve more than doubled the size of the database & added predictions for most of the manually-curated @uniprot entries in UniProtKB/SwissProt. That's >400,000 new protein structure predictions for you to explore!
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We are very proud to introduce the #COVID19 Data Portal, where researchers around the world can now access, analyse & submit #SARSCoV2 data 👉 #COVID19data #coronavirus #ERAvsCorona 1/4
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We are deeply saddened by the loss of Michael Ashburner, a pioneering co-founder and former Head of Research at EMBL-EBI. His contributions to bioinformatics have been immeasurable. Our thoughts are with his family, colleagues and all those whose lives were enriched by his work.
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AlphaFold DB will boldly go where no scientist has gone before. With over 200 million protein structure predictions added to the database, AlphaFold DB now gives users open access to a 3D protein universe. #AlphaFold @DeepMind
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AlphaFold has given us millions of protein structure predictions, but analysing these can be tricky due to computational limitations. Foldseek Cluster is a new algorithm that can perform structural comparisons of every #AlphaFoldDB protein prediction.
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Last year we teamed up with @DeepMind to launch the #AlphaFold database for protein structure predictions calculated using #AI . We’re now up to ~1 million predictions including proteins relevant to neglected tropical diseases & antimicrobial resistance 🦠
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Huge congratulations to John Marioni for his appointment as our new Head of Research. 👏 🎉 Learn more about John’s vision for research at EMBL-EBI and his future plans. @MarioniLab @EMBL .
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AlphaFold DB marks its one year anniversary 🎉 To celebrate we look back at some of the exceptional advancements that #AlphaFold has made possible over the last 12 months and we invite you to add your own work in the replies. @DeepMind Comment below👇
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Today we launch the BioImage Archive, our data resource for storing and sharing reference biological images. Big thanks to our collaborators @embl , @EuroBioImaging , @ELIXIREurope , @EMDB_EMPIAR , @IDRNews , #Biostudies and funders @UKRI_News #BioImageArchive
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#AI for protein structure prediction is the @ScienceMagazine breakthrough and a @Nature top pick of the year 🎉 Thousands of protein structure predictions powered by @Deepmind 's revolutionary AI are available in the #openaccess AlphaFoldDB
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The #AlphaFold Database has levelled up 🚀 🔍 Sequence-based search: Find protein structures in the database using BLAST 🤝With @thesteinegger team, we bring structure similarity clusters for seamless navigation A collaboration with @GoogleDeepMind
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Huge congratulations to @ewanbirney for being appointed Deputy Director General of @embl ! 👏👏👏Ewan will also continue as EMBL-EBI Director and Research Group Leader
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The #AlphaFold Protein Structure Database gives researchers #openaccess to an extensive collection of protein structure predictions. Learn about this EMBL-EBI hosted resource and future plans from our scientists and @DeepMind to expand the database.
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Researchers compiled over 200 000 bacterial genomes & 170 million protein sequences from the human gut #microbiome into the most comprehensive catalogue to date 🦠. The international team was led our @alexmsalmeida & @robdfinn
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Building on the #AlphaFold buzz, scientists around the world teamed up to explore how accurate and useful the predictions are for a range of applications including function and ligand binding site predictions.
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Novel approach called GARFIELD can assess functional consequences of disease-associated #genetic variants. Published today in @NatureGenet by authors @k0pk0 , @nicolesoranzo , @ewanbirney and collaborators
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On Neglected Tropical Disease Day, we teamed up with @DeepMind to publish 190,000+ relevant protein structure predictions in the #AlphaFold database – freely available to all! #WorldNTDDay #beatNTD
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To facilitate international data sharing + analysis of #COVID19 research data, we’ll be setting up a COVID-19 Portal. We’ll start by sharing the data available at EMBL-EBI and working closely with collaborators to increase the scope 1/4  #coronavirus
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To help explain the scientific facts behind the new #coronavirus pandemic, we've teamed up with @UKRI_News & scientists from @oxmartinschool , @KingsCollegeLon , @LSHTM , @imperialcollege , @UofGlasgow and others to set up this evidence-based website #COVID19
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Ever got a result back saying uncharacterised protein? 😩 @uniprot and @GoogleAI have teamed up to create a natural language processing model that has generated over 40 million protein annotations to address this challenge.
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Since its 2021 launch, the #AlphaFold database has had some major enhancements: 📈 600x increase in number of predicted structures 🗄 better data archiving 👩‍⚕️ inclusion of global health proteomes 🔍improved search 🙌integration with other data resources
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Adaptive @nanopore sequencing can help save researchers time and cut down on unnecessary data acquisition. BOSS-RUNS takes this one step further by adding an element of dynamic learning to the process in real-time 😎
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All our #bioinformatics online courses are #OpenAccess so you can learn at your own pace. It’s our mission. #OAweek
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Have questions about using #AlphaFold but are afraid to ask? Check out the new practical guide to AlphaFold, co-developed with @GoogleDeepMind . This free, modular course was created with input from the scientific community and is suitable for undergraduates and above.
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EMBL-EBI Training
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In our newest practical guide, developed with @GoogleDeepMind and @emblebi , delve into the fundamentals of #AlphaFold , explore its strengths and limitations, and gain practical skills through hands-on exercises. Start the free, self-paced tutorial today:
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Genomes differ slightly among individuals and so using one standard reference genome has limitations. Researchers from @HumanPangenome have released a more complete collection of genome sequences – the human pangenome – to better capture human diversity.
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As our Director Emeritus, Prof Dame Janet Thornton retires, we take a look back at how she shaped the world of #bioinformatics and computational biology. Thank you Janet for your leadership and happy retirement! @ELIXIREurope
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A 25th anniversary is the perfect time to celebrate the past and reminisce. Today we look back on the early days of EMBL-EBI, before our first web servers and the incredible rise of genomics #emblebi25 #genomics #bioinformatics
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Two decades after the unveiling of the human genome, our understanding of genomic complexity continues to evolve. Find out more and what the future holds for the comprehensive annotation of human genes.
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Belgian #PhD student wins a #bitcoin by solving @nick_goldman ’s #DNAstorage Challenge, issued at 2015 @WEF meeting in #Davos
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Interested in the link between gene expression and splicing quantitative trait loci ( #QTL )? Check out our brand new eQTL Catalogue – a gateway to eQTL data from all available human studies #drugdiscovery @unitartu @sangerinstitute @targetvalidate
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We’re pleased to announce that @PaulFlicek and @jomcentyre will be taking up the roles of Associate Directors of EMBL-EBI Services. Many congratulations to the both of them!
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Big congrats to @VirginieUhlmann for being appointed as our Deputy Head of Research! 🎉 Virginie will support the coordination of our research groups, while continuing to lead her own group focusing on bioimage analysis.
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Help us celebrate by taking a selfie, posting it using #WomenOfEMBL and captioning it with who/what got you into science. We can't wait to see your selfies!
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🚨Molecular data for over 200,000 pathogen species and strains are now available in our new Pathogens Portal, launched today. An indispensable resource for healthcare research, global pandemic surveillance, and food security. #pathogensportal
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Huge congratulations to our Director Emeritus, Professor Dame Janet Thornton, for winning the 2021 @BiochemSoc Award 🏆 in recognition of her work using #computational methods to advance #biomolecular science! 👏👏👏
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International collaboration is essential for the future of #science and has been at our core from the very beginning. Our research & data resources are serving scientists around the world and we will continue championing #openscience for all.
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Using #AI for protein structure predictions is @naturemethods Method of the Year! 🎉 2021 saw the launch of #AlphaFoldDB , a game changer in this field that has given researchers #openaccess to 800,000+ protein structure predictions. @DeepMind @embl
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It’s finally here!! Our Method of the Year 2021 is….Protein Structure Prediction!!
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Pleased to announce that we are among the 10 organisations who have received funding from @WellcomeTrust to sequence 2000 species on the British Isles as part of the #DarwinTreeofLife project
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The new @EMDB_EMPIAR cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) browser allows you to see proteins up close in the cellular environment. Over 1,800 high-resolution reconstructed tomograms from cryo-plasma-FIB milled Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells are available.
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The last of our 12 molecular machines allows us to edit genomes. It is, of course, the famous #CRISPR ! Thank you for watching. Happy holidays and may 2020 bring you joy, kindness and many exciting discoveries!🥳 @ewanbirney #merrymolecularxmas #MerryChristmas
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#AI is revolutionising protein science. Can it add to our knowledge of protein function? New @NatureBiotech research shows how deep learning models can be used to improve protein annotations within @PfamDB and help predict protein function.
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Let the countdown to the winter holidays begin!☃️This year @ewanbirney 🧣has invited a few colleagues to share their favourite 12 molecular machines of Christmas. How many of the machines will you recognise? #merrymolecularxmas #hohoho #festivescience #countdowntochristmas
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Researchers have identified protein #phosphorylation sites which have been conserved for hundreds of millions of years across the #eukaryotic tree of life:
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Our premises have closed in order to protect staff & visitors during the #coronavirus outbreak, but our virtual presence is as strong as ever. We will be working remotely to ensure our data resources are available to the community as usual. #COVID19
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Our 2nd molecular machine of #Xmas is like a protein factory located in every cell of every living thing🛠️. Our Technical Lead, Noemi del Toro Ayllon from @complexportal & @intact_project reveals the epic #ribosome . #merrymolecularxmas #festivescience #hohoho
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AlphaFold is the revolutionary #AI from @DeepMind used to create our #openaccess protein structure database #AlphaFoldDB . But what’s next for AlphaFold and the AI protein-folding revolution? @ewencallaway from @Nature investigates 👇
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Exciting news from @DeepMind at #CASP14 . Great to see how knowledge exchange can help researchers address one of biology’s biggest mysteries - the protein folding problem - using #ArtificialIntelligence
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There are different versions of the human genome annotation but which do you use? The Matched Annotation from @NCBI and EMBL-EBI (MANE) collaboration is the answer and brings new meaning to the phrase: two heads are better than one.
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Do you annotate bacterial genomes? 🦠 The new ggCaller tool from @johnlees6 and @SamuelHorsfield helps you annotate thousands of bacterial genomes using genome graphs, and connects these into a pangenome.
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If you’re after microbiome data, our @MGnifyDB protein database just got bigger: 3 billion non-redundant sequences, freely-available. MGnify’s high-quality open datasets have already been used in the development of AI systems #AlphaFold and #ESMAtlas .
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AlphaFold can help predict previously unknown protein complexes. In this @cenmag article, @L_Howes describes new research from scientists at @UWproteindesign and @pedrobeltrao ’s group at EMBL-EBI using #AlphaFold to predict complex protein interactions.
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This week is all about saying #thanksOA & celebrating everything #OpenAccess ! Open data is at the heart of what we do, creating opportunities for scientists everywhere + fuelling innovation, so here’s to the freely-available resources that make open life science possible #OAweek
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What proteins are hiding in the dark? 🫣 A new study published today in @Nature shows how the @PfamDB team is helping to illuminate the "dark matter" of unannotated proteins. Find out more in the full paper 👇
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“The most important achievement in AI — ever”. This is how @_RobToews describes #AlphaFold in his recent @Forbes article. Read more and find out how AlphaFoldDB is revolutionising our understanding of biology. @DeepMind #AI #opendata
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Our teams are working hard to make #COVID19 data accessible to the scientific community. This is a round-up of the most notable data resources, tools and datasets we released in the last month. We hope these are useful to researchers working on #SARSCoV2 (👇thread)
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The first draft of the human genome was published #OTD 20 years ago. Check out these five little-known facts about this monumental achievement! They might prove handy at your next quiz night. 🧬 #HumanGenomeProject #HumanGenome20
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Working on #bacteria 🦠? We’ve got a new dataset for you! Over 660,000 bacterial genomes, assembled from data available in @ENASequence . @ZaminIqbal @GraceBlackwel1 @KerrMalone @martibartfast did the work so you don’t have to.
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Our data resources are free and always will be, but we need your help to estimate their value & impact. If #opendata have ever saved you 15 min, please give back by filling in our impact survey #valueopendata #openscience #FAIRdata #openaccess
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When will RNA get its #AlphaFold moment? A recent paper explores how to overcome obstacles such as data quality and volume, usage of data beyond simple sequence alignments and more. @RNAcentral
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Excited to announce we have started work on our new Thornton building, named after our Director Emeritus and inspirational scientist, Prof Dame Janet Thornton. We are grateful to @UKRI_News & @wellcometrust for their amazing support for this project!
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This month marks 20 years since @nature & @ScienceMagazine published the first draft of the human genome. Take a look back at the project that changed the life sciences forever. #HumanGenome20
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The new @EMBL Programme has launched! We're proud to be a part of @EMBL and we're looking forward to contributing our #bioinformatics expertise to this exciting new scientific programme that ushers in a new era in the life sciences.
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EMBL embarks on a new era of molecular biology. EMBL research will expand to study life in context – from molecules to ecosystems. Broad in scope, our next programme encompasses fundamental research, services & multidisciplinary collaboration.
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Happy 10th anniversary to @ChEMBL , our prolific database of bioactive molecules with drug-like properties! Big congratulations to the team (past and present) that have made this database such an amazing success! 🥳🎂 #chembl10yrs #chembl10years
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Biological data can be used to answer fundamental questions about #biodiversity , to identify species at risk of extinction & help preserve genetic information about life on Earth. On #BiodiversityDay see these #opendata resources that may help further your biodiversity research.
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An international research team including our @pedrobeltrao group mapped the interactions of human proteins with #SARSCoV2 proteins & found potential antiviral #drugtargets @nature #COVID19data #coronavirus #COVID19
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We’re extremely grateful to @UKRI_News for confirming £80.7 million to help transform our technical infrastructure & continue to meet the growing data needs of the life sciences 🎉
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#Bioimaging data have significant potential for reuse but this requires systematic archiving & metadata. Today we propose Recommended Metadata for Biological Images (REMBI) & we need your feedback to develop these guidelines! @naturemethods #microscopy
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When submitting scRNA-Seq data to public databases it’s crucial to provide sufficient #metadata to ensure reproducibility. Find out more in these guidelines from researchers at EMBL-EBI, @ucscgenomics , @HarvardDBMI , @sangerinstitute , and colleagues
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Introducing Milo: an #opensource R software package that generates high-resolution differential abundance testing results of cell states from your #singlecell data. Find out more and give Milo a try 👇 @MarioniLab @NatureBiotech @sangerinstitute @CRUK_CI
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Last month we received over a billion requests to our data resources marking a new record!🎉🎉🎉 Many thanks to all of our hard-working staff for their dedication, whether on-site or #WFH , and to our partners for their continuous support in these trying times! #StrongerTogether
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#COVID19 research heavily relies on #bioinformatics tools. Find out how we've repurposed some of our existing tools to filter #COVID19data and help increase our understanding of #SARSCov2 .
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In only 6 months, the #COVID19 Data Platform united research efforts across Europe & beyond. It secured valuable data submissions & made crucial data available to all who are working towards stopping #SARSCoV2 in its tracks. Lots more to do, but working together is key. #OAWeek
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Welcome Sarah Dyer, our new Non-Vertebrate Genomics Team Leader! With a wealth of experience in #bioinformatics and a passion for plant 🌱 and crop 🌾 genomes, we’re excited to see what Sarah will bring to the @ensembl Plants and Metazoa teams.
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Introducing @ProteomicsML , a community-driven resource for proteomics data sets and tutorials across most of the currently explored physicochemical peptide properties. The perfect starting point for your #proteomics #machinelearning endeavours.
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The Global Biodiversity Portal has launched! Get access to raw data, genome assemblies, and annotations, and track the status of your species of interest sequenced as part of @EBPgenome .
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AlphaFold DB launched 2 years ago 🎂 But did you know this incredible resource wouldn’t exist without your data? Learn about the journey your data takes from submission, training the @GoogleDeepMind #AlphaFold algorithm, to integrating AlphaFold predictions across our databases
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Long-read sequencing is @naturemethods Method of the Year 2022! 🎉 Nature Methods’ @metricausa got the inside scoop from our experts about the benefits of using this technology for cancer genomics and producing high-quality genome annotations.
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Microbes are everywhere, including the surface of our skin. Find out how skin #microbiome research from @NIH @genome_gov and EMBL-EBI can help further our understanding of skin health and disease. @NatureMicrobiol
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Data coordination at its best: 47 papers published in @Cell 1000+ datasets freely available. Follow #BLUEPRINTdata for updates. #epigenome
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Festive treats are so tempting, especially the sugary ones! @pporras77 from @intact_project & @complexportal explains how the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, our 3rd molecular machine, helps us process all the 🍰🍬🍫 we will be consuming this season #merrymolecularxmas #hohoho
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New service alert! Our colleagues in the @ExpressionAtlas have been working hard behind the scenes to bring you the Single Cell Expression Atlas – a new home for your #singlecell RNA-seq data for all species #nextgenseq
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One year ago today, we launched the European #COVID19 Data Platform to facilitate #opendata sharing & analysis, and accelerate coronavirus research. The scientific community’s response was incredible, and the Platform has been growing ever since. A few noteworthy highlights 👇
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Are you a structural biologist wondering how #AlphaFold will impact your work? Read this comment about the possible impacts, opportunities and limitations of the technology. #structuralbiology #deeplearning #FAIRdata
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New #singlecellanalysis technique lets you detect changes in three ‘layers’ of molecular activity simultaneously: nucleosome, DNA methylation and transcription. Could reveal new mechanisms of #generegulation in development and disease
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Today marks one year since the launch of the BioImage Archive, our dedicated data resource for biological images 🥳 Huge thanks to our @EMDB_EMPIAR , BioStudies and technical services teams for all their hard work behind the scenes! #bioimaging
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We are pleased to introduce @Ensembl 's latest efforts to tackle the #COVID19 pandemic. Today they launch their #SARSCoV2 genome browser and related resources. #coronavirus #opendata
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