European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI

If EMBL-EBI managed data resources have ever saved you time and effort, this is your chance to give back 🙏 We want to hear from you – the researchers, developers, clinicians, and innovators who rely on open data resources every day. Fill in a 15-minute survey to help us: 🌍 Demonstrate the real-world impact of these resources 🤓 Understand your needs and experience 🌟 Secure continued funding to maintain and develop our resources Closes 24 July (deadline extended) 👉 https://lnkd.in/efCttNGh] Thank you for being part of this global data sharing community! #bioinformatics

Welcome, Emily Clark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 – our new Genome Analysis Team Leader. Emily’s team makes agriculture and biodiversity data more accessible for researchers, supporting initiatives like the Earth BioGenome Project and FAANG. Find out how Emily is using her background in animal genomics and bioinformatics to enhance our comparative genomics resources. Emily’s love of the animal world also seeps into her free time 🐎 #genomics #biodiversity #bioinformatics https://lnkd.in/eNRh7VJn

🚨Our user survey is closing on 24 July. Only a few days left to share your views. Please take 10 minutes to help us demonstrate the value of the data resources we manage with our collaborators. Complete survey: https://lnkd.in/efCttNGh] Or read more about the background of the survey from our Interim Director, Jo McEntyre: https://lnkd.in/e-wQSTtG 

EMBL-EBI will be at #ISMB2025! Visit us at our booth, meet our scientists, and find out about our latest training, services, research highlights and more. Check the ISMB schedule to find all the EMBL-EBI talks and posters: https://lnkd.in/eZSHH3QV There’s lots happening, including: 🧠Our sponsored Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods – DREAM – session keynote speaker is EMBL-EBI’s Head of Research, Julio Saez Rodriguez, talking about “Benchmarking foundation models in biology: where we are, and where we want to go with the community.” https://lnkd.in/euA3t9pU 🧬Workshop on genomic variant interpretation and prioritisation for clinical research (pre-registration necessary) https://lnkd.in/e87Tiiis #bioinformatics 

Join our LinkedIn Live panel discussion tomorrow! This event tackles how Creative Commons licenses shape the reuse of research in the context of AI, publishing, and author rights. We’ll explore the following: - Do you retain copyright when publishing under a CC BY license? - How do Creative Commons licenses impact the use of research in training AI? - Why are some authors unable to reuse their own published figures? - What do funders and journals require when it comes to open licensing? - How do licensing decisions shape research visibility and impact? Register now to secure your spot before tomorrow's event 👇

Do you retain copyright when choosing a CC BY license? Why can some authors not reuse their own figures? How do open licenses affect data reuse for AI training? Join us for a live panel discussion exploring how Creative Commons licenses shape the reuse of research literature covering everything from AI training and tool development to author rights and publishing. Our speakers will share their experience working with copyright and open licensing, offering practical guidance for researchers and anyone working with Creative Commons licenses to share and protect their work. 🗣️ Our speakers: Taylor Campbell – Open Science Project Lead, Creative Commons Monica Granados – Director of Open Science, Creative Commons Kat Walsh – Copyright Counsel, Creative Commons Katie Hughes – Open Science Information Specialist, EMBL Melissa Harrison – Team Leader, Europe PMC / Literature Services, EMBL-EBI Join us for this LinkedIn Live to find out more and put your questions to our panel. #AI #creativecommons #linkedinlive

Our open data resources are used by millions of scientists worldwide. 🌍 A new, more sustainable funding collaboration between the Wellcome Trust and EMBL-EBI will enable us to continue developing our open data resources for the life sciences. Consolidating several project grants into a single five-year grant, will help us support existing data resources, enable innovation in new areas such as AI, and support the development of a more equitable and interoperable global data system. We are extremely grateful to Wellcome for their continued support for EMBL-EBI’s mission to make biodata openly available to the world! 🙏 https://lnkd.in/esahr3de #bioinformatics #opendata #biodata

👋 Do you use EMBL-EBI data resources in your work? We would really appreciate your feedback! Please complete our impact survey before 16 July to help us understand and demonstrate the value that our data resources bring to the global scientific community. Our Interim Director Jo McEntyre explains how your feedback helps us: https://lnkd.in/e-wQSTtG And don’t forget to complete survey ✅ https://lnkd.in/efCttNGh] #FAIRdata #bioinformatics

The first draft of the human genome turns 25 today 🎂 On 26 June 2000, the UK and the US jointly announced the completion of the initial draft of the human genome – the first map of the three billion base pairs that make up human DNA 🧬 . The Human Genome Project remains one of the most ambitious scientific projects in history. It involved an international consortium of hundreds of scientists and over 20 organisations, working together for over a decade. Much of the sequencing work was done on the Wellcome Genome Campus, where we're located, and our neighbours at the Wellcome Sanger Institute led the European sequencing efforts. One of our major data resources, Ensembl, was created in response to the project, to annotate the genome and make it publicly accessible online. Today, Ensembl continues to serve researchers around the globe, enabling open access to annotated genomes from thousands of species 🐁 🐖 🐟 🦟 🌽 ... The Human Genome Project marked the beginnings of the new discipline of genomics. Since then, the field has grown exponentially, transforming our understanding of disease, evolution, agriculture and biodiversity. EMBL-EBI’s open data resources enable researchers worldwide to access, share and analyse rich genomic data as well as other data types, to gain new insights and make discoveries that benefit humankind. In this video, EMBL’s Interim Executive Director Ewan Birney takes us on a journey through the history of genomics, the excitement of the Human Genome Project, the struggle to make the data open, what the human genome empowered scientists to do, and what may come next. https://lnkd.in/eY9Cdfcu #HumanGenome #genomics #ScienceHistory

UniProt is a world-leading, freely accessible data resource that provides protein sequence and functional information to scientists worldwide. A new impact case study led by CSIL and supported by ELIXIR outlines the impressive economic and scientific value of UniProt.  UniProt is a long-standing collaboration between EMBL-EBI, the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) and the Protein Information Resource (PIR). It’s a great example of what we can achieve when we collaborate across national borders to develop data infrastructure that benefits everyone. #impact #bioinformatics #FAIRdata