Merry Christmas 🎄🧪! Here's a video I made of the predicted structure for the protein MERRYCHRISTMAS. I used AlphaFold to predict the structure and then colored the backbone (green), amino acids by index (rainbow), and noncovalent interactions (dotted lines). #sciart #science #MolBio

From @danielrigden.bsky.social & @xosegb.bsky.social in an #Editorial in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The 2026 Nucleic Acids Research database issue and the online molecular biology database collection | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Undergrads & graduating HS seniors: Applications are open for @jacksonlab.bsky.social’s Summer Student Program! ✅ Paid, 10-week mentored research experience ✅ Hands-on #genetics & #genomics research ✅ Professional development in #DataViz, #SciComm & peer review Apply: www.jax.org/education-an...

From the @geneontology.bsky.social team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The Gene Ontology knowledgebase in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #GO #Ontology #GeneOnlology #OpenData 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

We've just updated our RNAcentral Online Tutorial! www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... This tutorial provides an overview of RNAcentral and covers different ways of accessing and using the data. It's aimed at anyone with an interest in non-coding RNAs. As always, we welcome your feedback!

From the @rnacentral.bsky.social team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | RNAcentral in 2026: genes and literature integration | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #RNA #ncRNA 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From the @nytimes.com | When will this stop? "the Trump-Kennedy Center"? <sigh> Trump and His Loyalists Move to Name the Kennedy Center for Him www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Bioinformatics frameworks for single-cell long-read sequencing: unlocking isoform-level resolution academic.oup.com/bib/article/... 🧬🖥️🧪

Thank you to everyone who attended the inaugural webinar in the “Towards a Human Exposome Atlas” series on 09 Dec. More than 350 people joined the event, bringing the @unesco.org, @exposomemoonshot.bsky.social and HCA communities together. 🖥️ 🧬 #Genomics #Exposome #SingleCell

From @loiclnlg.bsky.social , @joannavonberg.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Eleven quick tips for organizing a data cleaning challenge | I like figure 1 | #Bioinformatics #Education #Data #PLOSCBQT #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 🇳🇱  ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From Kim Pruitt & team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #OpenScience #Proteomics #Genomics #Education #Research #OpenData #OpenSource #NCBI 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Congratulations, Francis! I have only half of your experience 😊. Thanks to you, and our fantastic writers, it’s been a pleasure to serve as a Section Editor for the #PLOSCB Education track.

From Sameer Velankar & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | PDBe: enhanced structural data exploration to facilitate discovery | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Proteomics #PDB 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

My @plos.org #Computational #Biology anniversary, 12 years as a Section Editor at #PLOSCB | #OpenScience #OpenAccess #OpenData #OpenSource #OpenEducationalResources 🧬🖥️ 🧪🔓| CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From @pmadrigal.bsky.social @anilthanki.bsky.social + friends in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Expression Atlas in 2026: enabling #FAIR and open expression data through community collaboration and integration | #Bioinformatics #Database #Genomics 🧬🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

In #JAMIA Open from @academic.oup.com | Biomedical data repositories require governance for artificial intelligence/machine learning applications at every step | #Data #Database #OpenScience #AI #ML 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/ar...

In @plos.org #Computational #Biology, there are now 300 "Ten Simple Rules" papers | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov?term=%28%22P...

New Reactome paper in NAR 2026 Databases Issue: doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Redesigned Angular interface ReacFoam & entity-level visualizations Multi-omics analysis tools React-to-Me chatbot FAIR-compliant, CoreTrustSeal certified, and ELIXIR-recognized 🖥️🧬

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

From @jhcepas.bsky.social and colleagues in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | eggNOG v7: phylogeny-based orthology predictions and functional annotations | #Bioinformatics #ProteinCentric #Database #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️🧪🇨🇭🇪🇸🇩🇪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules 4 effective research data management | I like all of the rules, but I always like to see Rule 6: Work on comprehensive docs | #Education #Bioinformatics #FAIR #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience #OpenData 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓🇩🇪 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

From @ledevoir.com (in French) | Se rappeler le 6 décembre sans baisser la garde | (No #paywall for next two days) 🔓 #6décembre1989 #Souvenonsnous ⬇️ www.ledevoir.com/actualites/s...

#6decembre1989 #PlusJamais #NeverAgain #Souvenonsnous #Remember #JeMeSouviens #NeverForget #Poly #Montréal CC/ @polymtl.bsky.social

🌟Help grow the Galaxy Training Network! The GTN is powered by community experts like you. Whether you want to fix a typo, add a new tool, or write an entire tutorial, we’ve made it easy to get started. Explore our guides and jump into contributing here: training.galaxyproject.org/training-mat...

Ran the same literature search through Claude Code and ChatGPT. Found ZERO papers in common despite using identical databases. Both searches were useful in finding what I need, but lack of overlap was ... slightly concerning. The lesson: AI tools are powerful but limited. Use multiple (1/2)

Attention developers and researchers working with Ensembl programmatically! Upcoming Ensembl API and data access changes are live on our blog. Read more about the new platform, new services, and migration timelines here: www.ensembl.info/2025/12/02/...

From the @ebi.embl.org team published in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | The European Nucleotide Archive in 2025 | #Bioinformatics #Database #FAIR #Proteomics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData #ENA #INSDC 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From @helucro.bsky.social & colleagues in @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social | Orchestrating Spatial #Transcriptomics Analysis with #Bioconductor | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 #RStats #DataViz #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Education #Research #OpenScience #OpenSource ⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Deadline for nominations for Canadian #Bioinformatics Hub Conference 2026 awards, next Monday, December 8th ... Don't miss this deadline! 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🇨🇦 #CBHC2026 #Canada - CBH Research & Innovation Award - Francis Ouellette Community Award - CBH Impact Trainee Award ⬇️ www.iscb.org/cbhc2026/cal...

🇨🇦 #CBHC2026 award nominations are due this coming Monday, Dec. 8! This is your last chance to help us highlight researchers and community builders shaping #bioinformatics in Canada. Self-nominations welcome! Details and submission link below ⬇️

From @damlaob.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #JASPAR 2026: expansion of transcription factor binding profiles and integration of deep learning models | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #Database #OpenScience #TFBS 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

It hurts so much. I still can’t believe he’s gone. A dear friend is gone. So quickly, so soon. An amazing person, a great mind. We will miss him. 🖤

A #Bioinformatics giant passes away. Very sad to hear this news today. Sad for Switzerland, and for the whole world. Amos Bairoch was a part of the Bioinformatics community for many decades. He will be missed. #Database #Biocuration #SwissProt #Prosite #Cellosaurus | www.sib.swiss/news/amos-ba...

From one of the @ebi.embl.org team, published in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | ChEBI: re-engineered for a sustainable future | #Bioinformatics #Database #Chemistry #OpenData #OpenScience #ChemicalEntitiesofBiologicalInterest 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

I've always loved the openness and collegiality of our C. elegans community 🪱, but this perspective really helps emphasize just *how important* those traits are for scientific progress. A true tribute to how curiosity-driven science leads to innovation! 🙌

From the @ucscgenomics.bsky.social team in @natureportfolio.nature.com #scientificdata | Making genomic data FAIR through effective Data Portals | #FAIR #OpenScience #Bioinformatics #Genomics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org @mdperry.bsky.social ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Steven Guilbeault quitte le Cabinet A little #CanPoli (in French no less :-) ... 🇨🇦 | I think @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social leaving the Cabinet is a big loss for the @liberal.ca.web.brid.gy and for 🇨🇦 | #Canada #Environment #ClimateChange ⬇️ www.lapresse.ca/actualites/p...

From #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | Automated annotation and validation of human respiratory #virus sequences using VADR | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenSource 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/database/art...

An inspirational example of 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲, 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐫: Chemiosmosis remains one of the most striking examples of originality in modern biology. At a time when biochemical dogma insisted on high-energy intermediates, Peter Mitchell proposed & rigorously articulated the radical ...

... idea that cells use electrochemical gradients as the universal energy currency. Working largely outside established academic structures, Mitchell and colleagues reimagined oxidative phosphorylation from first principles and reshaped biology and biomedical research for generations to come.

From the @ensembl.org team in the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Ensembl 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #37546Genomes #Ensembl 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From @elliot-bhm.bsky.social & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenData #Taxonomy #Proteomics #OpenScience #Genomics 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From the @hgnc.bsky.social team in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | Genenames.org : the #HGNC and #PGNC resources in 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Database #OpenScience #Genomics #Proteomics #OpenData 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

Our paper describing the GlobDB is now published in @bioinfoadv.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bioa... The GlobDB is the largest species dereplicated genome database currently available, containing 306,260 species representatives. More information on globdb.org 1/5 🖥️🧬🦠

From the @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #DDBJ update in 2025: system integration for global data-sharing including #pathogen surveillance | #Bioinformatics #Database #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenData 🧬 🖥️🧪🔓 🇯🇵 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

I knew early on I wanted to work with computers, but because of dyslexia I ended up in a lower-tier German school. The career office said a tech job wasn’t realistic. I ignored that, took a convoluted path into university, discovered bioinformatics, got hooked on algorithms&proteins, and became a PI

By modernizing legacy pipelines, optimizing CEs, and automating large-scale data analysis, Champions Oncology were able to cut turnaround time from days to hours while significantly reducing compute costs ⏩

From Sameer Velankar & colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | #AlphaFold #Protein #Structure #Database 2025: a redesigned interface and updated structural coverage | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience #AFDB 🧪🔓 CC/ @ebi.embl.org ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | MiMeDB 2.0: the Human Microbial Metabolome Database for 2026 | #Bioinformatics #Metabolomics #Database #OpenScience #Human 🧪🔓🇨🇦 CC/ @wishartnode.bsky.social ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

From @wormsense.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, & research groups | ❤️ Rule 1: A great short-term project is like a great short film | #Education #PLOSCBTSR 🧪🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...