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EMBL welcomes its new Director General, Tony Hyman, who will take up the mandate of leading EMBL’s six sites as the organisation enters its next phase. Hyman, a group leader and visiting senior scientist at EMBL Heidelberg from 1993 to 1999, succeeds Interim Director Ewan Birney, who assumed leadership following the death of Interim Director General Peer Bork in January. Together, Bork and Birney had led the institution since former Director General Edith Heard moved to the Francis Crick Institute in London as its new Director and Chief Executive. “This is a moment when biology is changing rapidly,” said Hyman. “Advances in imaging, large-scale data generation, and artificial intelligence are reshaping how we study living systems. EMBL has played an important role in previous periods of change, and I look forward to working with colleagues across the organisation as it enters this next phase.” https://lnkd.in/dATD2DZR

Imagine shrinking yourself to the size of a microbe 🦠 . You would discover that every handful of soil and every bucket of seawater is akin to a bustling city filled with millions of microbes. The new MGnify biome catalogues are helping scientists map the invisible microbial metropolises that influence health, agriculture and the environment. Explore our catalogues of richly annotated, microbe-derived genomes, a treasure trove for scientists working in antimicrobial resistance, agritech, or biodiversity. https://lnkd.in/ekWbqqnW #metagenomics #bioinformatics #AMR European Nucleotide Archive Ensembl

Our 2025 Highlights Report is out and we’ve pulled together five big moments from the year. Swipe through to explore how open data and AI at EMBL-EBI are supporting advances across human health and the life sciences including: 🦠 Connecting data to tackle antimicrobial resistance 🤖 Predicting disease risk with AI 🎓 Building global AlphaFold skills through training 🌍 Supporting rare disease research worldwide 🏗️ Opening new spaces for collaboration across science and industry These are just a few of the stories from last year. Explore the full report to see more of the people, partnerships and stories behind our work. https://lnkd.in/e6wZWfnn #AI #OpenData #Bioinformatics

We’re hiring: Research Group Leader in computational biology Are you ready to define your own research direction and build an independent team? At EMBL-EBI you’ll have the freedom and resources to pursue your research vision. Here, John Lees’ group works on pathogen informatics and modelling, leveraging close links to our extensive, open biological data resources. Why join EMBL-EBI? 🔬 World-leading facilities and infrastructure in molecular biology and IT 🧠 Creative freedom to choose your research direction 📊 Work closely with to the world’s most comprehensive and up-to-date freely available biological data resources Apply by 11 April 2026: submit your research plan, CV, cover letter, and three references via the EMBL Jobs portal https://lnkd.in/e4-vHkFe #ScienceCareers #Bioinformatics #PrincipalInvestigator EMBL, Georgina Birchall, Julio Saez Rodriguez, Paula Frampton

Welcome, Stephanie LO, our new Protein Function Team Lead. Stephanie joins us from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where she led the Global lobal Pneumococcal Sequencing project. At EMBL-EBI, she leads a team of curators working on UniProt, the world-leading protein knowledge resource. Their work ensures that scientists worldwide have access to accurate, high-quality information about protein function. Find out how Stephanie’s experience in genomics shaped her approach to protein curation, her interest studying infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, and how she sees the future of protein annotation evolving hand in hand with advances in AI. https://lnkd.in/e8D92tG7 #Bioinformatics #ProteinScience #LifeSciences #AI 

Explore EMBL-EBI’s 2025 Highlights report and discover how open data and AI are shaping the future of life sciences and genomic medicine, including: 🦠 A new platform helping researchers tackle antimicrobial resistance 🤖 How AI can forecast disease risk 🌍 Connecting rare disease data across borders 🎓 Expanding global access to AlphaFold through training and community building Take a sneak peek at the Thornton Building opening ceremony, and learn how the Wellcome Genome Campus expansion is strengthening collaboration across science and industry. Our work wouldn’t be possible without the global community who generate and share the life science data we make openly available at EMBL-EBI. Alongside our funders, collaborators, staff and students, your contributions drive what we do helping turn data into real-world impact. #AI #OpenData #Bioinformatics

𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝘅𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗚𝗔 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗚𝗔 Providing high-quality metadata relies on having a good metadata model and validation approach. The #FederatedEGA Metadata Working Group is working on a new metadata model to manage and link metadata effectively, ensuring scalability, interoperability, and alignment with the wider research community. This second version of the EGA metadata model, still under active development, will enable EGA and Federated EGA (FEGA) to set a high standard for the (meta)data we archive. Improved metadata quality leads to: 🔎 Researchers easily finding relevant datasets for their research in the EGA/FEGA catalogues.  💡 New scientific conclusions through EGA and FEGA distributed data. The ‘FEGA Metadata Technical Report’ has recently been published in Zenodo. This document is the outcome of collaborative work among groups, including established FEGA Nodes and Nodes currently under development: Germany (The German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA)), Poland (University of Lodz), Norway (University of Oslo), Finland (CSC - IT Center for Science), Portugal (BioData.pt), Sweden (NBIS – National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden), Spain (Barcelona Supercomputing Center & Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)), Canada (BC Cancer), Switzerland (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics), France (INSERM), Estonia (University of Tartu) and Greece (BSRC Alexander Fleming). We also bridged metadata modelling with well-known projects and standards such as ELIXIR, Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI), Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, Beacon, and #BioSchemas. Data loses its value without metadata. At the EGA, we aim for the highest quality of metadata. We will continue to work and collaborate with various groups to ensure that data is stored and reused for the benefit of the research community, accelerating scientific discovery and healthcare breakthroughs. 🔗 You can access the report on Zenodo here: https://lnkd.in/e2_Y4ydu 

Meet Aleena M S., Senior Ensembl Outreach Officer. Aleena delivers hands-on workshops worldwide, helping scientists integrate high-quality genomic data into their research. The Ensembl project has been running for 26 years and began with the Human Genome Project. It is a freely accessible resource that provides high-quality gene annotation alongside a wide range of tools to explore genomics data across vertebrate and non-vertebrate species. Beyond science, Aleena enjoys learning new languages, exploring local cultures, and finding creative ways to make bioinformatics engaging, like using local dishes to explain metagenomics. Read the full interview and learn how Ensembl is supporting global genomics capacity building. https://lnkd.in/eSvQ275a #Ensembl #Bioinformatics

AI is only as powerful as the data that trains it. To move from AI predictions to reliable, transparent and reproducible science, the community needs high-quality AI-ready data and standards.  Explore our latest newsletter to learn how EMBL-EBI is building the infrastructure for this new era: 📈 AlphaFold Database adds first protein complex structure predictions and community-generated datasets 🛠️ BioAIrepo, the new home for AI models in the life sciences, is live 💊Powering drug discovery with LIGAND-AI 🧬Study in medaka fish explores how genes and the environment interact to share complex traits Plus, we are looking for the next generation of scientific leaders. Explore our open call for Research Group Leaders in computational biology. And watch our new online tutorial about making science computing more sustainable.  #AI #Bioinformatics #AlphaFold #MachineLearning