📣 Announcing the new #DDI Metadata Publication and Access Working Group (MPAWG)! This new initiative will focus on advancing the machine-actionable publication and standardized access to DDI metadata in alignment with the FAIR data principles. Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1

🌊✨ The Ocean Genome Legacy Center joins the Earth BioGenome Project, helping advance the sampling of marine species across our ocean. With over 2.2 million eukaryotic marine species, the ocean remains one of Earth’s greatest frontiers for new genome discoveries. 🧬🌍 @oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social

Did you know? NACDA is the largest free public repository of aging-related datasets in the U.S., making it easier than ever to dive into health, behavior & aging across the lifespan. Swing by Booth 319/321 and let’s chat data! #GSA2025 #agingdata Learn more: www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/nacda/...

Hear how @redfly-database.bsky.social can be used in the classroom to help teach #bioinformatics, #genome-annotation, #gene-regulation, #biocuration, and more!

The 2026 plant science conference travel award program is open! Awards are given to student/mentor pairs. At lease one of the pair must be a member of SACNAS or MANRRS or AISES. Please share, applications due by Dec 5, 2025. @sacnas.bsky.social rootandshoot.org/2026-root-sh...

Missed the FaceBase Bootcamp? No worries! Catch up with recordings and slides covering data discovery, submissions, and DMS plans: 🎥 www.facebase.org/community/tr... #FaceBase #DataSharing #CraniofacialResearch #NIH #DentalResearch #DataReuse #FAIRdata #DataScience

Coming soon — the most comprehensive (and challenging) analysis yet of how all elements of the regulatory genome correlate with animal complexity and morphological disparity. With #KevinPeterson, @frommlab.bsky.social, and other luminaries. A link to the paper. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

From @sneumann.bsky.social and colleagues in @narjournal.bsky.social #NARDatabaseIssue | MassBank: an open and FAIR mass spectral data resource | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience #FAIR #Database 🧪🔓 ⬇️ academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...

🚀 Introducing PDBe-KB Complexes — a new PDBe-KB resource for exploring macromolecular complexes across the PDB. 🔗 Explore (SARS-CoV-2 spike, PDB 9CXE): ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb... 📄 Read the preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=568... #PDBeKB #MacromolecularComplexes #StructuralBiology

This month's Alliance webinar "Introduction to MicroPublication Biology", presented by Tim Schedl, will be Thurs. Nov. 20 at noon ET. To get the Zoom link, please register tinyurl.com/4f9ycybt by Weds. Nov. 19 (before midnight ET). Note: you can now request to registered for all future webinars.

Another month and lots of new & useful data added to www.PGSCatalog.org! Including new multi-ancestry insulin resistance scores, a score tailored for heart failure in East Asian individuals & more!

Thinking about a research career after college? Join PROPEL’s virtual matchmaking event connecting graduating students with research technician roles. 📅 Jan 30, 2026, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. PT Register by Dec 5, 2025 🔗

AlphaFold Database users can now temporarily integrate and visualise their own protein annotations, making the resource a more interactive and personalised platform for structural bioinformatics analysis. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u... #AlphaFold

We are excited to welcome new members to our network of affiliated initiatives! 🦋 @projectpsyche.bsky.social aims to sequence the genomes of all butterflies and moths of Europe, supporting their conservation, protection and driving innovation. 🦋 Learn more: www.projectpsyche.org #Lepidoptera

2026 #Yeast #Genetics Meeting is 13–17 June 2026 in Pacific Grove CA. Conference website has invited speakers, abstract submission topics, preliminary schedule, etc. Bookmark the site as additional updates will be published as they become available. #YEAST26 genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/

Curious about plant genomics? 🌿 Join our upcoming training courses to explore how plant genomes are assembled and annotated. Details 👉 www.izmb.uni-bonn.de/en/pbb/news#... #Genomics #Bioinformatics #DeNBI #PlantScience @denbi.bsky.social @puckerlab.bsky.social

#EDDI2025 is just around the corner—Budapest awaits in less than two months! Check out the details: bit.ly/4mYIt93 ✨ Early bird registration 📅 Program highlights 🛠️ Pre-conference workshop: Intro to DDI for Small Organisations 🎓 Scholarships available …and much more! See you in Budapest!

💡Check it out! The #DDI Controlled Vocabularies Working Group is happy to announce the recently updated Controlled Vocabularies page on the #DDIAlliance site. rdf-vocabulary.ddialliance.org

Next week! Join us for Office Hours (Nov 12) and a hackathon with @rdapassociation.bsky.social (Nov 13). Check them out on our blog, including registration links. Happy Friday, All. 🛟 💾 ❤️

The Disease Ontology website release is now available! 🎉 What's new: -Updated data from the most recent October 2025 DO release -Newly added federated SPARQL queries for expanded data exploration -Access to materials from the DO-designed and sponsored Nosology Course

From @ngehlenborg.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for making biomedical data resources accessible | I like Rule 10:Focus on progress over perfection | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I've updated my Bioinformatics Bootcamp: Zebrafish Special Edition blog post on @the-node.bsky.social! Please do share with trainees or anyone new to the community. I hope it adds some breadth to the many resources available to #zebrafish researchers. 🔗 thenode.biologists.com/bioinformati...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the millions of viral genomes coming in overwhelmed traditional methods for data analysis. Find out how SPRTA, a new tool, provides a fast, scalable way to measure confidence of phylogenetic trees, helping scientists track outbreaks. www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/t...

📣 The call for tutorials & workshops at #ECCB2026 is now open! Share your tools, methods or expertise with the community. 🗓️ Deadline: 5 January 2026 👉 Submit: tinyurl.com/tw-eccb26 💡 ECCB will take place on 31 Aug–4 Sept in Geneva, gathering 1,000+ scientists from academia, industry, & healthcare.

🧫 Explore the curated dataset in IntAct ➡️ tinyurl.com/candidalysin 🎨IntAct Cytoscape visualisation: Candida albicans ECE1 peptides (orange) and their human protein targets (blue) #IntActEBI #Interactome #EMBL

🚨 NEWS! The GWAS Catalog Diagram is back up! 🚨 Smoother, faster loading for filtered views! 🗺️ Explore now 👉 www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/diagram Tell us what you think! Are there any features you would like? Help us to make it useful for the #gwas community

Thanks to all who attended this year’s Annual General Meeting. Congratulations again to our Early and Advance Career Award Winners, Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken! You can find their excellent talks at around the half way point of the recording of the meeting. youtu.be/A7je5cR_2IA?...

🐢💙 Big win for sea turtle conservation! Genome-informed conservation is helping keep these icons in our seas. 🌊 📄 Explore the 2025 publication: bit.ly/4ogC36B 🌊 Dive deeper into how these and other EBP-affiliated reference genomes are benefiting marine life in our latest newsletter: bit.ly/4qhJdZK

It's great to be back at the #CharlestonConference! Come on by booth 40 to catch up with Phoenix executive director Josh Young, and learn about what's new with @morphobank.bsky.social and @tairnews.bsky.social #CHSconf2025 #OpenScience #OpenAccess #scholcomm #scholcomms

4 exciting virtual events are coming — the first is TOMORROW!👀Here's the lineup: ➡️11/5 – Journal Club on Aberrant N-glycosylation ➡️11/12 – Impactful Science Communication ➡️11/19 – Ensembl Genome Browser ➡️12/2-3 – Rare Disease Symposium Register: https://learning.ashg.org/ #ASHG

This chilly autumn day brings the October #TechnicalAdvances wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase.... If you'd like your paper with a new technique, resource,or reagent featured in an upcoming month, make sure to flag it when you #FTYP.

Reminder: 📣 Our next virtual bootcamp, tailored for both users and data contributors, is coming up on Wednesday, November 5th! For dental, oral, and craniofacial researchers, clinicians and students: www.facebase.org/community/tr...

📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar! 🗓️ Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | 10 AM ET 🎙️Dr. Rene Ranzinger presents: “New Features and Tools in GlyGen v2.9” 🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All... 🔗 Join our mailing list: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #glycotime #glygen #researchtools

ICPSR spotlights TurboCurator—an AI tool making research data more FAIR, transparent, and efficient—at SciDataCon 2025. More: https://myumi.ch/w9JRd #ResearchDataEcosystem

🧬 🖥️ Tackling genomic data can feel overwhelming. Building confidence starts with the basics. Explore @jacksonlab.bsky.social’s Beginner’s Guide to Genomic Databases to strengthen your skills in genomic data structures, annotation and sequence alignment: education.learning.jax.org/genomic-data...

Applications for travel grants to attend #Biocuration2026 in South Africa close tomorrow, Oct. 31. There is still time to get your application in: forms.gle/VK6kjNXZKQpp... Find out more about the conference here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19t...

Curious how scientists influence policy? Join @abankston.bsky.social on Nov 13, 12–1 p.m. EST, for "From the lab to the legislature" and learn how your research experience can drive change in Congress. Register now: buff.ly/kDO5sln 🔗

🎥 ICYMI: The webinar recording, "Promoting Data Use: New tools to help use and publish with data," is now available! ➡️https://myumi.ch/5kEJW Visit icpsr.umich.edu for more News & Events coming your way!

🌟 Exciting news from the #DDIAlliance! We extend a warm welcome to our newest Associate Members: CONSTANCES Cohort, France Cohortes/FReSH, and Making Sense. We look forward to advancing metadata standards together and growing our collaborative community! ddialliance.org

Listen to the 6th episode of the Genomics Connection #podcast by @ergabiodiv.bsky.social en @iboleurope.bsky.social 🔔Listen here! open.spotify.com/episode/4w4D... 👉 More information on our website biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/10/29/g...

And we are LIVE! Join us for Day 1️⃣ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP0X... #conference #genomics #ERGA @biogeneurope.bsky.social

It's that time again! Join us for our Office Hours tomorrow (Wednesday), 1 pm ET / 10 am PT! Talk with FaceBase team members and ask questions about finding data, submitting data, citing data, and more! Click here to register: usc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Still a few days left to sign up!

Last summer, the Madeiran Insect Bioblitz Project #MIB brought together citizens & scientists to explore the Madeira's incredible diversity of insects & generate reference #genomes 🐝🐜🪲 Learn more about this project supported by @biogeneurope.bsky.social www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/madeira...

🚀InterPro 107.0 is live! ✨Updated to Pfam 38.0 ✨1,068 new InterPro entries Explore the latest annotations and discover new protein insights. Explore it now: interpro.ebi.ac.uk

Galactic views on the Conference on Research Data Infrastructure (CoRDI): https://galaxyproject.org/news/2025-08-29-cordi/ ##UseGalaxy ##GalaxyProject ##NFDI ##UniFreiburg ##RDM

Really, really happy that our work on microsporidian genomes is now out in @plosbiology.org! A huge thank you to my coauthors, my supervisors @mblaxter.bsky.social & @marakat.bsky.social, the editors @roliroberts.bsky.social & Joseph Heitman, and the reviewers ❤️ plos.io/48HsAQJ

Check out our selection for October's #ReactomeResearchSpotlight! Ringquist et al's September 2025 @natureportfolio.nature.com Biomedical Engineering paper, "An immune-competent lung-on-a-chip for modelling the human severe influenza infection response" Read more: 🔗 reactome.org/content/reac... 🖥️🧬

Society for the Study of Evolution: "We [...] strongly oppose attempts by the HHS to claim that there is a biological basis to defining gender as a strictly binary trait (male/female) determined by genitalia at birth." www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Two years ago we undertook a volunteer-driven effort to reannotate the #Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Over 70 researchers in labs all over the world contributed. Read our latest status update 🧪➡️ phoenixbioinfo.org/get-ready-ta... #TAIR12 #plantbiology #plantscience #scisky