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Madeiran Insect Bioblitz: Genomes in the laurel – insects across an Atlantic island. About the hotspot Set in the Atlantic Ocean, Madeira’s steep valleys, high heath, and pockets of ancient laurel forest shelter a remarkable variety of insects, many found nowhere else in the world. Se...

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

The Galaxy Freiburg team at CoRDI

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

Genomics for Biodiversity Conference - from genomes to impact 29–31 October 2025Summary🗓️ Dates:  29 - 31 October 2025 (click to add to your agenda!)🔗 Online venue: ERGA YouTube ChannelWe are excited to announce the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference organised...

It’s almost time for the Genomics for Biodiversity Conference — happening next week!
🗓️ 29–31 October
💻 Fully online & free of charge
Find all the details, including the full programme 👇
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/genomic...

@biogeneurope.bsky.social @ebpgenome.bsky.social #genomics #biodiversity

FlyBase secures funding for year, but future still uncertain The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.

The FlyBase team’s fundraising efforts have proven successful in the short term, but restoration of its federal grant remains uncertain.

By @callimcflurry.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/community/fl...

Spread the word! 🗣️🎙️
Together with @azulsilva.bsky.social and Bluesky-less Magdalena Miranda, supported by @elife.bsky.social, we’re organizing a webinar bringing together people working in science communication and outreach.

Please, feel free to share the flyer with anyone who might be interested!

ISB 2025 Annual General Meeting Registration The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday, October 27th, 2025 along with presentations by our two biocurator career award winners, Tiago Lubi...

Just 1 week to go to the Annual General Meeting.
There'll be a short update on ISB business, followed by talks from our Early and Advanced Career Award Winners, Tiago Lubiana and Kimberly Van Auken.
All are welcome. You do not need to be an ISB member to attend.
Sign up: forms.gle/wDX7MGHQwgoz...

YouTube video by Alliance Of Genome Resources A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource

ICYMI: Yesterday's Alliance webinar, 'A practical guide to Using the Alliance as a research resource' is now posted to our YouTube channel youtu.be/fr7T5Y1hxAI
You can find all our previous webinars on the Alliance Event Calendar www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar

We are pleased to announce the hg38 SpliceAI Wildtype tracks. These tracks show the scores for the genome sequence itself, without variants, from predicted splice donor and splice acceptor sites. More at bit.ly/spliceAIWt

🌍🧬 Will we see you at PAG33 this January 2026?
Check the conference details: intlpag.org/PAG33/
Register today: bit.ly/4o7r4vW

The International Plant and Animal Genome (PAG) Conference is almost here — the annual meeting point for the world’s genomics community! 🌱🐟🧬

#PAGConference

Gene Markers showing in GTEx experiment.

🚀 Expression Atlas Release 43 is live!
🧬 New Marker Gene View for all baseline (RNA & protein) experiments - instantly spot tissue- or condition-specific expression patterns.
🔎 Plus, a new technology filter for faster dataset discovery.
🔗ebi.ac.uk/gxa

@ebi.embl.org

The results of the 2025-2026 Executive Committee elections are in. Congratulations to our new and returning members:
Susan Bello
Kalpana Panneerselvam
Ranjana Kishore
Thank you to all the candidates and all who voted.
www.biocuration.org/executive-co...

FungiDB/VEuPathDB + Ensembl are teaming up to enhance fungal & oomycete genome resources — and we need your input!

Complete the survey by Nov 1st, 2025: 
zurl.co/gKjC1

Your feedback will help guide decisions on genome curation, annotation & data integration.

We have recalculated APPRIS principal isoforms for GENCODE v48 / Ensembl 114 human.

GENCODE added loss of function genes to this version and we discovered that this caused the TRIFID scores to change, affecting some of the PRINCIPAL:2 -> PRINCIPAL:5 isoforms.

Our fault, we asked for the change!

A comprehensive survey has documented 169 vascular plant taxa, including new northern records, in east-central Baffin Island, enhancing understanding of Arctic biodiversity and floristic patterns.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

Galaxy 25.0 steps up the game in data management. Now you can set up and manage InvenioRDM / Zenodo (or S3, Dropbox, etc.) integrations from a dedicated section in User Preferences — clean UI, prioritized sources, and true “Export datasets” support.

Read more: (1/2)

There is still time to sign up for ISB's annual general meeting on Oct 27th. We'll have a short update on the society followed by talks from our career award winners. All are welcome to join us www.biocuration.org/annual-gener...

"44th public release of TAIR@Phoenix data"

Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/breaking-news#301

#News

🗂️ Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: “Metadata harmonization from biological datasets with language models”

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf241

ERGA meets VGP in New York City Last week, ERGA was present at the Vertebrate Genomes Project 2025 Conference, held at The Rockefeller University in New York City from September 30 and October 1. ERGA and VGP share a long-standing c...

🏙️ Last week, #ERGA joined the @vertebrategenomes.bsky.social #VGP Conference in NYC, a great chance to connect with @ebpgenome.bsky.social projects and share progress on #FAIR genome assemblies & reporting under @biogeneurope.bsky.social
www.erga-biodiversity.eu/post/erga-me... #genomes #conference

Counts of the merged Ensembl/GENCODE, RefSeq and UniProtKB coding genes with the most likely explanations for the outliers for each gene set. For example, most Ensembl/GENCODE singletons are readthrough genes.

So, our definitive paper on the human reference gene set is out this week in Database (Oxford).

We merged and compared @ensembl.org / @gencodegenes.bsky.social , RefSeq and UniProtKB coding genes and investigated the agreements and discrepancies.

Details of what we found in the thread ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes Brunkow, Ramsdell, and Sakaguchi for their discovery of Tregs and the regulatory role of FOXP3, an O-GlcNAcylated protein.

Explore FOXP3 on the GlyGen portal: glygen.org and learn more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#glycotime

ICPSR logo and text: Recent Data Updates and Additions on a transparent background of blue wavy lines.

📈Data Alert!📈 ICPSR offers new and updated data to meet your research needs. Perfect for researchers, students, and data enthusiasts. Start exploring! Check it out ➡️ http://myumi.ch/ICPSR-new-releases

#NewReleases #DataUpdate #DataDriven

BioGRID ORCS Version 2.0.18 Released The BioGRID ORCS curated CRISPR database has been updated to include CRISPR screens from a total of 418 different publications. These additions bring the total number of curated CRISPR screens in our ...

BioGRID #CRISPR Database v2.0.18 is released w/ 2,217 screens from 418 different publications including 94,000+ genes, 825 cell lines, 145 cell types & 29 phenotypes including 101 #glioblastoma related screens and 116 #fanconianemia related screens 🧪
@biogrid.bsky.social

🖥️🧬 STEM educators: How can #bioinformatics introduce your students to real-world genomics?

@jacksonlab.bsky.social's module provides an overview of bioinformatics, helping students learn to manage and analyze large amounts of data to propel scientific discoveries.