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HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program On 5 February 2026, our Board of Directors voted unanimously to approve the adoption of HPC Carpentry as the fourth official lesson program of The Carpentries, alongside the Data Carpentry, Library Ca...

From The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org | HPC Carpentry Approved as The Carpentries' Fourth Lesson Program | #HPC #OpenScience #Education 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Merci pour ces touchants témoignages!

YouTube video by ICI Québec Vendredi VIP avec Rémi Quirion

Sur #ICIQuébec @radiocanada.bsky.social | Très bon interview avec le scientifique en chef du Québec: Rémi Quirion @scichefqc.bsky.social | Bien triste de le voir partir, mais aussi curieux de voir la prochaine chef! | 🧪 #OpenScience #inFrench ⬇️

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Diverse database and machine learning model to narrow the generalization gap in RNA structure prediction Length matters—secondary structures of long, diverse RNAs in RNAndria and deep learning model eFold improve prediction accuracy.

From #AAAS 's #scienceadvances journal | Diverse #database and machine learning model to narrow the generalization gap in #RNA structure prediction | #Bioinformatics #ML #Genomics #OpenScience #StructurePrediction #RNAStructurePrediction | 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They're Wrong!) We are thrilled to announce that 'Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They Are Wrong!)' has just been published in PLOS Computational Biology! This paper is the result of passionate discus

Whether you are a longtime Galaxy user or new to the platform, this paper challenges assumptions and highlights Galaxy's versatility, scalability, and impact across disciplines.
Read more about the paper, the story behind, and why it matters in our blog post: galaxyproject.org/news/2026-02...

This paper started as an exchange here in late 2024 and evolved over the next year into a tidy set of recommendations for labs hoping to build more collaborative coding communities. 🎉

Would love to hear if any of these (really not so "simple") rules resonate with you, and what else you've tried.

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

This was such a fun collaboration with @analog-ashley.bsky.social and team, including some of our own @sciencebanshee.bsky.social and @shen4brains.bsky.social And h/t to Alana McPherson for the infographic!

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Great lab to go learn #bioinformatics, in the great city of #Montréal! #summerJob #summerintern

Ten simple rules for building a collaborative coding culture

From @sciencebanshee.bsky.social @shen4brains.bsky.social @analog-ashley.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for building a collaborative #coding #culture | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪🔓
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Ten simple rules for coordinating a large digital health project: Perspectives from EU and implications for global contexts Coordinating a large-scale digital health project requires a unique mix of scientific leadership, administrative skill, and human sensitivity. Drawing from our experience leading CAPABLE, a European H...

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for coordinating a large #digital #health project: Perspectives from EU and implications for global contexts | #Education #Bioinformatics #Research #Healthcare #PLOSCBTSR 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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AI is helping individual scientists, study suggests — but not science Artificial intelligence is helping researchers advance their careers and drill deeper into specific questions, but it is not necessarily benefiting science on the whole.

#ShortWave #Podcast on @npr.org | AI is helping individual scientists, study suggests -- but not science | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #Genomics #Science #AI 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 CC/ @stevensalzberg.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to announce that "Ten Common Misconceptions About Galaxy (And Why They Are Wrong!)" has just been published! This is the result of passionate discussions, collaborative debates, and a shared commitment to clarifying what Galaxy @galaxyproject.bsky.social truly is and what it can do.

Now Available: RefSeq Release 233 - NCBI Insights RefSeq release 233 is now available online and from the FTP site! You can access RefSeq data through NCBI Datasets. The release is provided in several directories as a complete dataset and also as div...

#NCBI has released ver 233 of #RefSeq which includes 442,943,508 proteins, 76,278,418 RNAs, and sequences from 174,157 organisms. One is the Rhesus macaque T2T assembly | #OpenScience #OpenData #Genomics #Proteomics #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
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The CDC is the only .gov that is not run from within the Washington DC beltway … Atlanta is not next door to Bethesda!

New collaborative work our team in @plos.org Plos Computational Bio. Our goal was to demystify the annotation process and make it more accessible. Give it a try! @terryfoxresearch.bsky.social @bhcri.bsky.social

Rubrics, Not Vibes: Consistency as a Feature in Peer Review with AI Responsibly using AI for a structured first pass manuscript / grant proposal review can reduce reviewer variance while keeping human judgment central. Bonus: a prompt I use for my own draft proposals.

From @stephenturner.us | Rubrics, Not Vibes: Consistency as a Feature in Peer Review with AI | 🧪 #AI #OpenScience #PeerReview #Grants #Publications #PairedEnds
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Staying Current in Data Science and Computational Biology: 2026 Edition Part 3 in a series of posts going back 14 years

Staying Current in Data Science and Computational Biology: 2026 Edition. Part 3 in a series of posts going back 14 years. doi.org/10.59350/2na...

Tutorial for variant interrogation in tumor samples The increasing accessibility of next-generation sequencing has empowered researchers to investigate somatic mutations in cancer. The complexity of variant analysis pipelines, terminology, and tool sel...

From @jeanetteeb.bsky.social & colleagues in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Tutorial for variant interrogation in tumor samples | #Bioinformatics #Education #NGS #Cancer #Genomics #OpenEducationalResources #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social
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Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) Author summary Galaxy is a free, community-built web interface that helps scientists analyse data in a way that’s easy to use, transparent and reproducible. While it is widely used in biology and othe...

From @bebatut.bsky.social @abretaud.bsky.social @hrhotz.bsky.social et al. in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten common misconceptions about Galaxy (and why they are wrong!) | #Bioinformatics #Education #UseGalaxy 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 CC/ @galaxyproject.bsky.social
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Staying Current in Data Science and Computational Biology: 2026 Edition Part 3 in a series of posts going back 14 years

From @stephenturner.us | Staying Current in Data Science and Computational Biology: 2026 Edition | #DataScience #ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics |
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Very interesting post from @stephenturner.us | #Bioinformatics #AI #Education

The misuse of colour in science communication - Nature Communications The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication, however, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour vision...

Keep science accessible 🧪

Before there’s a heartbeat, there’s this little glowing heart in the neural tube 💕 Chicken neural crest cells in magenta. 📸Image by Rocío Márquez, Strobl-Mazzulla Lab @pstrobl.bsky.social #FluorescentFriday #SciValentine

Towards FAIR and federated data ecosystems for interdisciplinary research Scientific data management is at a critical juncture, driven by exponential data growth, increasing cross-domain dependencies, and a severe reproducibility crisis in modern research. Traditional centr...

From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Towards #FAIR and #federated #data ecosystems for interdisciplinary #research | #Bioinformatics #OpenScience 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓 🇩🇪
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The legacy of Amos Bairoch, the resources he and others created (Swiss-Prot, UniProt, PROSITE, ENZYME, ExPASy, neXtProt, Cellosaurus), his commitment to open access and high-quality curation, is immense and have guided bioinformatics to this day.

"Francis Ouellette remembers his first encounter with ExPASy in 1993, when Amos visited his boss Mark Boguski at NCBI: “‘Bonjour, Francis, as-tu vu mon site web de Swiss-Prot?’ On my Netscape browser he typed: EXPASY.CH. It was the first bioinformatics website I ever visited on a WWW browser!”"

Amos Bairoch (1957–2025): pioneer of bioinformatics and founder of Swiss-Prot Amos Bairoch, one of the founding figures of bioinformatics, passed away on 1 December 2025 at the age of 68 (SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics 2025a).

From #OUP 's @bioinfoadv.bsky.social journal | Amos Bairoch (1957-2025): pioneer of bioinformatics and founder of Swiss-Prot | #Bioinformatics #Proteomics #OpenScience CC/ @sib.swiss 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓🇨🇭
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Pathways, outputs and impact of NIH-supported bioinformatics and genomics graduate trainees in Africa Abstract. Global biomedical and health research is increasingly relying on genomic and computational approaches, largely driven by the increasing volumes o

From #OUP 's #Briefings in Bioinformatics journal | Pathways, outputs and impact of #NIH -supported #bioinformatics & #genomics graduate trainees in #Africa | #Education #OpenScience #H3ABionet #H3Africa 🧬 🖥️ 🧪 🔓
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Learn more about #CGR at www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/comparative-...

CGR is a terrific project and huge contribution to our research data and tooling ecosystem!