Ensembl VEP makes variant annotation easy with access to key reference data for filtering and interpretation. Now includes MAVE results, offering further insights across nearly all possible variants in targeted regulatory or coding regions. More on our blog (zurl.co/Aj9HH) #bioinformatics #genomics

🧠🤖 Need to gain a deeper understanding of #MachineLearning to quantify animal behavior for your research? Apply for @jaxeducation.bsky.social's short course, October 12 – 17: www.jax.org/education-an... #BehSci #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence Meet a selection of the expert speakers on the agenda ⬇️

A Review in Nature Medicine of the WHO’s International Clinical Trials Registry Platform presents a snapshot of the global cancer trial landscape and provides critical empirical evidence to inform policy, practice and investment. go.nature.com/3W69f44 🔒

Have you heard of the Zebrafish Rock! Slack Pro tankspace? Sponsored by ZFIN, it acts as the premier source for questions and queries for the #zebrafish community and beyond! If you are keen to join, please fill out this Google form at our website: linktr.ee/zebrafishrock

We are pleased to announce the release of the Developmental Disorders Genotype-to-Phenotype (DDG2P) track for hg19 and hg38. The DDG2P track displays genes associated with severe developmental disorders. Learn more at: genome.ucsc.edu/gold...

Please take a moment to tell us how you use the Genome Browser: surveymars.com/q/mnb... Your feedback supports future improvements and our continued funding.

Genomics for Biodiversity Conference 🗓️ 29–31 October 2025 💻Fully online & free of charge! 👉More info, including the programme: www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic... #GenomicsforBiodiversity #conference #biodiversity @ebpgenome.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social

We are live now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1us...

The next Alliance webinar is THIS Thursday (9/25) at noon EDT. If you'd like the Zoom invitation please preregister by Wednesday (9/24) before midnight EDT tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt If you got the Zoom link in an email this morning, you're set, and don't need to do more.

Making structural biology data accessible to everyone — from specialists to first-time explorers. ✨ Discover the new interactive, personalised & mobile-ready PDBe Entry Pages. 📖 Read more: www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... 🔍 Try it: www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/p...

Are you an undergrad looking for financial support to attend a scientific conference that will take your career to new heights? 🚀 Apply for the Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award to help cover attendance costs to present at #Dros26: buff.ly/wA2oGeL 1/2🧵

📌 Highlighting: PubMed knowledge graph 2.0 📄 Read the paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40527887/ 📊 See more DO-powered research at github.com/DiseaseOntol... #DiseaseResearch #Biocuration #Bioinformatics #FAIR #ComputationalBiology

You’re invited to the first meeting of the DDI Alliance Metadata Publication and Access Working Group! Learn more about our group at bit.ly/3K66HjX and join us Sept. 24th.

Release News: V94 of #Reactome is live! 🎉 We have new and updated topics and pathways, including Cell Cycle, Developmental Biology, Disease, Immune System, Metabolism of proteins, and Transport of small molecules 🖥️🧬

Our paper "Expanding and refining the mammalian phenotype ontology to enhance disease model discovery" is finally out! journals.biologists.com/dmm/article/... #SciSky #Ontology

Alright I have something useful for you to do. Think of any teachers and librarians you know. Do they know about Skype a scientist? Our program matches classrooms & other groups w/scientists for virtual Q&As. It’s free! They can sign up here! www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html #Edusky #StemED

The ISB Annual General Meeting is coming up on October 27th. Register to hear what the society has been working on and to hear from our career award winners! forms.gle/tC5TMZ2ZvFAD...

How do we measure the impact of data sharing? We don’t fully know — but our ED Chonnettia Jones and a team of #openscience experts are working on it. Their S-Index framework was named a finalist in the NIH Challenge. More:

Join our DRP office hours on September 17 to learn more about #SaveOurSigns. Visit www.datarescueproject.org/updates-from... for more information!

The FlyBase situation has made the national news www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

🚩1 MILLION curated associations!!! 🚩 Launched in 2008, took us 15 years to reach 500K, and thanks to your research and collaboration, we doubled the number in less than 3 years! See some data insights tinyurl.com/mw53njbb #OpenAccess

Reviewer Workshop! Interested in reviewing in #DevBio? Join us for a discussion on reviewer best practices! Sept 24th 10-11am CST. Sign up here! forms.gle/w4NTp21RNmnL...

🚨GlySpace Alliance Webinar Reminder: Join us tomorrow at 10 AM ET! #glycotime #bioinformatics

How many chromosomes can an animal have? In our paper out now in @currentbiology.bsky.social we show that the Atlas blue butterfly has 229 chromosome pairs- the highest in diploid Metazoa! These arose by rapid autosome fragmentation while sex chromosomes stayed intact. www.cell.com/current-biol...

📣Another publication from our amazing researchers and colleagues: The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1 @ehologenome.bsky.social 🦠💡 Find it in @gigascience.bsky.social 👇

From @cp-patterns.bsky.social | #Bioconductor: Planning a third decade of comprehensive support for genomic data science | #Bioinformatics #Genomics #OpenScience #OpenSource 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Good overview of why the loss of public data matters! #DataRescue www.healthbeat.org/2025/09/04/t...

Announcing the 2025 i5k Annual Meeting on October 15th! Anyone with an interest in arthropod genomics is encouraged to join this open meeting. More details here: i5k.github.io/2025_annual_... #i5k #arthropods #genomics #insects (please re-post)

🌍 Meet Our Partner: AfriGen-D – African Genomics Data Hub Proud #Biocuration2026 partner, AfriGen-D drives visibility, accessibility & reusability of African genomics data—empowering ethical & collaborative research across the continent. 🔗Learn more about AfriGen-D: afrigen-d.org/about-page

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Harvard Funding Cuts Endanger the Massive Fruit Fly Database That Powers Genetic Research

The academic community has looked at how artificial-intelligence tools help researchers to write papers, but not how they distort the literature scientists choose to cite, says Zhicheng Lin go.nature.com/45X3Imr

🐭 Thanks to the RefSeq team at NCBI, we now have an annotated genome assembly for the meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus), found throughout eastern North America! (1/4)

Meet Our Host: African Bioinformatics Institute (ABI): ABI in Cape Town will host #Biocuration2026 the first edition in Africa! 🌍 Learn more: bioinformaticsinstitute.africa Join us in Cape Town: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19t...

ERGA #Community #Genomes🌻🦋🦎 🟡 Working on a genome of a #European species ? 🟢 But not part of a large project like @biogeneurope.bsky.social @atlasea.bsky.social ? 🔵Then add it to the Community Genomes page goat.genomehubs.org/projects/ERG... 🟣 Find out more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1mn...

🖥️ 🧬 UNDERGRADS: Take your #DataScience skills to the next level! Applications are open for @jacksonlab.bsky.social's 2026 Biomedical Data Science in Context program, taking place January 3 – 17 at our campus in Bar Harbor, Maine. 💡 Questions? Join an info session to learn more: www.jax.org/bdsic

ERGA at #ESEB2025🧬 @ergabiodiv.bsky.social participated in the Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. This conference was a great opportunity for ERGA members to gather in person, exchange ideas, and connect! 🔗 biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/09/08/e... @horizoneu.bsky.social

🧠 Alzheimer’s research meets precision medicine 📊 IMEx data from IntAct & Complex Portal 🧬 How AD mutations disrupt brain protein networks 🔍 Variant pathways, APP, miRNA 🚀 Toward targeted AD therapies 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/pmic... #KalpanaPannerselvam #IntAct #ComplexPortal #AlzheimersSociety

Long time no live-posting! Wecome to #bc2basel! @SIB#bc2baselhttps://bc2.ch/programme

[BC]² has formally kicked off with our first plenary session, chaired by @dgfeller.bsky.social (UNIL), Catherine Jutzeler (ETHZ) #bc2basel

Why would anyone want to screen drugs against the model nematode #Celegans? Check out the latest review in #GENETICS where Peter Roy provides insight and perspective into why scientists choose worms for #drugdiscovery. buff.ly/0Xo54vJ

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten practical tips and tricks to improve the effectiveness of biological network alignment | #Bioinformatics #Education #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

📌 Highlighting: MFF-nDA: A Computational Model for ncRNA-Disease Association Prediction Based on Multimodule Fusion 📄 Read the paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40129032/ 📊 See more DO-powered research at github.com/DiseaseOntol...

🌎 The Earth BioGenome Project is proposing to sequence 150,000 species over 4 years--which means releasing 3,000 new genomes a month ‼️ We're proud to be participating in this effort to create a rich resource to inform conservation, ensure food security, and even advance medicine.

"We have an in-house content validator, which uses ROR’s API to ensure we have ROR IDs for affiliations and funders." Read more about the excellent #metadata practices of @elife.bsky.social on the @crossref.bsky.social blog. doi.org/10.64000/3gc...

🔬 Structural biologists, help us improve the PDBePISA server! Fill in a 6-minute survey about your experience with PDBePISA forms.gle/PfoCYHJe1y9L...

The ISB Annual General Meeting is on October 27th at 4:00–6:00 pm CST / 3:00–5:00 pm GMT / 11:00 am–1:00 pm EDT / 8:00 am–10:00 am PDT We'll have an update on the society, followed by talks from our career award winners: Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken Register: forms.gle/sDVMzfrYBD7T...

The MorPhiC consortium — a program led in part by JAX scientists — aims to better understand the function of every human gene and generate a catalogue of the molecular and cellular consequences of inactivating genes. 🧪 🧬 https://youtu.be/5NfDpH9zVic

#STEM educators: Give your high school students a chance to step into the shoes of scientists with the Cancer Genetics Research Experience! In a hands-on mock research project, they "join” labs to explore cancer genetics & potential careers: 🥼 #ClinicalResearch 💻 #Bioinformatics 🐁 #MouseResearch

Starting the new academic year with a Reactome Research Spotlight🖥️🧬 In the February2025 issue of Nature Communications, Carli et al. reported the development of a predictive model of cell line drug sensitivity from RNA-seq data using machine learning approaches pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...