Very nice preprint on the importance of #FAIR data resources in the life sciences, for AI and generally for science, by a great @sib.swiss team led by @dessimoz.bsky.social. With @bgee.org inside ;) zenodo.org/records/1572...

Speak up to prevent a major loss for the field. CASP, which helped shaping structural biology including AlphaFold is on the verge of shutting down. NIH funding has lapsed, UC Davis support ends and the core team is being let go. Painfully shortsighted.

A science fair of cancelled grants. The research that will be represented at this event (Tuesday) ranges from neuroscience, to astrophysics, to STEM education. The awarding agencies of the now-canceled grants include the EPA, DHS, NIH, NSF, USAID, and DOD. Open to the public.

Latest paper from the de Crecy lab is out! A finding that answers a ~40 year old question: a eukaryotic high-specificity transporter for Q/q

This is a must-read piece by @math-rachel.bsky.social about AI evaluation, and how the system of reward and apportioning credit in AI research is broken rachel.fast.ai/posts/2025-0.... TL;DR -- we need deep fact checkers!

Got a #knowledgegraph want some use cases and example queries and how to share them: Read our paper in GigaScience https://academic.oup.com/gigascience/article/doi/10.1093/gigascience/giaf045/8133871?searchresult=1 Join us in #sparqling your #sparql to improve your #SPARQL ;)

This year's International Workshop on Open Molecular Informatics (IWOMI) (12.-16.05.25) will focus on the curation of open molecular data using multimodal large language models (LLM). If you are interested, please register at www.iwomi.net

[BC]² Basel Computational Biology Conference 2025 will take place on 8-10 September. The conference brings together over 500 international scientists from academia, industry, and healthcare to explore advancements at the intersection of #bioinformatics and artificial intelligence. See bc2.ch

Februari 2025 WikiPathways update: 313 edits by 10 contributors and 4 new pathways in the last month. Accessible via #webservices, #rstats, Pathvisio, and Cytoscape. Supported by AWSOpen https://www.wikipathways.org/download.html #biology #bioinformatics #openscience

Next BioSB @biosb.bsky.social HotTopics meeting: BioSB HotTopics meeting on Data representation of small molecules and their application March 25 in Amsterdam www.dtls.nl/data-represe... with Daniel Probst @skepteis.bsky.social, Gerard van Westen @gjpvwesten.bsky.social, and Gabriel Vogel

Out now, release 137 of Rhea featuring 17,422 reactions and 14,335 unique compounds from 18,284 publications. Rhea is used to annotate over 28 million proteins in UniProt (see www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb?qu...).