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EMBL-EBI Training
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Delivering world-class bioinformatics training in data-driven life sciences virtually, and onsite at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK.

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Join our colleagues for their latest career webinar, tomorrow, 11:00 CET time zone. The event is ideal if you're looking to move from academia to a software job.

Full registration details in the post below.
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rachelcg.bsky.social Rachel Coulthard-Graf @rachelcg.bsky.social · 17d
Thinking about moving from academia into IT and software?

Join our @embl.org & @biont-training.bsky.social Career Webinar on 28 Nov, 11:00 CET, with speakers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs):

💡 Toni Wagner – vAudience (DE)
💡 Helena Vela – Do IT Now (ES)

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The image includes the details of the webinar: EMBL | BioNT Career Webinars- Career Paths in Software/IT SMEs | 28 November from 11:00-12:00 (CET) The webinar details are in a white box, overlaid on an image with a green background and visual showing a head with multicoloured arrows going out from it, illustrating that your skills and knowledge can lead to different careers.
November 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Join us next week for an introductory #webinar where we will walk through the IntAct Portal's approach to molecular network modelling, and show how this is implemented within the IntAct Cytoscape app.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Graphics advertising the webinar "Exploring molecular interactions in-depth across species", running on 3 December 2025, 14:30-15:30 GMT Graphics showing the webinar speakers: Susie Huget, Software engineer at iMEAN and Eliot Ragueneau, Technical project lead at EMBL Grenoble. A photo accompanies each speaker's graphics.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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Meet Sophie, one of our newly promoted Senior Event Managers, and get to know what motivates her and her team, and what she’d like the future of events to look like.

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November 25, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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A huge thank you to everyone that joined us for our annual 'Genome bioinformatics' training course.

Wish you were here? Sign up for alerts for the 2026 edition of the course: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Genomics #Bioinformatics #NextGenerationSequencing
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EMBL-EBI course. Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing. 17 - 21 November 2025. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute. Hinxton, UK. A group of people sit outside on stone benches in front of a glass fronted office building. They are wearing winter coats and smiling to the camera.
November 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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ICYMI: catch up with our pangenomics webinar series. The recordings are now available on-demand: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Webinars were given by: Raymond Cheng, Leanne Haggerty, @samuelhorsfield.bsky.social, Alexander Leonard, Neil MacAlasdair, and @camillemrcht.bsky.social.

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Webinar series at EMBL-EBI. Concepts, methods, and resources in pangeomics. Going beyond the reference genome. Recordings now available. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Join us in 2026 and learn how to use computational tools to extract biological insight from omics datasets: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Location: EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Course fee: from £925.00 including catering and accommodation. Financial assistance is available.

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Course at EMBL-EBI. Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight. 11 - 15 May 2026. Hinxton | United Kingdom. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Always a pleasure to host you @chiarabatini.bsky.social and the 'Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing' course.

Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the Wellcome Genome Campus we are so proud to be located on.

#Bioinformatics #UKScience #CambridgeScience
chiarabatini.bsky.social Chiara Batini @chiarabatini.bsky.social · 11d
Back in Hinxton for our annual @training.ebi.embl.org genome bionformatics course, loving the campus on this sunny morning 😍
November 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Are you based in Latin America and looking to develop your AI knowledge for the biosciences?

Applications are now open for our multi-location course, to be held in the region from 20 – 24 April 2026: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Application deadline: 28 November 2025

#AI #Bioinformatics
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November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Join our free webinar with UniProt on 20 November for a basic introduction of programmatic access to UniProt using Python, with examples also available in R.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Bioinformatics #Python #ProteinData #ProteinSequence
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Webinar at EMBL-EBI. Accessing UniProt programmatically for students. 20 November 2025. 15:00 - 16:00 GMT. Emily Bowler-Barnett, Senior Scientific Curator, EMBL-EBI and Daniel Rice, Senior Software Engineer, EMBL-EBI are the pictured speakers.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Join us next year for an introduction to metabolomics through lectures and hands-on sessions, using publicly available data, software, and tools.

Course dates: 27 April – 1 May 2026
Location: EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Apply by 11 January 2026.

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Course at EMBL-EBI. Introduction to metabolomics analysis. 27 April – 1 May 2026. Hinxton, UK. EMBL-EBI logo.
November 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Last chance to apply for an 'Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation'.

Course location: virtual, UK time zone
Course fee: From £240.00, financial assistance is available
Deadline to apply: 9 November 2025

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#RNAseq #Transcriptomics #Bioinformatics

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training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Aug 5
Gain an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools, and resources used in RNA sequencing and transcriptomics.

Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation will run virtually from 9 – 13 February 2026:
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Course at EMBL-EBI. Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation. 9 – 13 February 2026. Virtual. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Join our next webinar on 5 November at 14:30 GMT to discuss pangenome graphs and their applications.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Discover the full webinar series on pagenomics here: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Graphic presenting the "Pangenome graphs as a new paradigm in comparative genomics" webinar, part of a webinar series at EMBL-EBI. The webinar will run on 5 November 2025, 14.30-15.30 GMT. The speaker name is Sam Horsfield, from EMBL-EBI. A photo of the speaker is shown at the bottom right of the graphic.
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Reminder: applications close for our single-cell RNA-seq with Python course next week.

Course dates: 2 – 6 February 2026
Course fee: from £240.00, funding is available.
Location: virtual, UK time zone

Apply by 2 November 2025: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#Python #SingleCell #Bioinformatics
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training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Jul 25
Join us virtually for 'Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python' from 2 – 6 February 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

This course covers the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data using Python and command-line tools.

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#SingleCell #RNASeq
Course at EMBL-EBI. Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python. 2 – 6 February 2026. Virtual course. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute logo.
October 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Introducing Ada: the new AI assistant from EMBL-EBI Training. We created our training chatbot, Ada, to make it easier and more engaging for users to find the right on-demand training resources from our broad catalogue of training: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/ada

#AdaLovelaceDay #bioinformatics

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Introducing Ada: the new AI training assistant. Explore on-demand bioinformatics training with Ada, your training AI assistant.
October 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Join us next week for our #webinar, where we’ll explore indexing in large genomics datasets!

We'll discuss current frameworks and challenges, and there will be time for questions at the end of the talk.

Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
Graphics displaying the information for the Making sense of massive genomic data by indexing at scale webinar. The webinar will run on October 22 2025, 14:30-15:30 BST. The speaker is Camille Marchet, from the University of Lille. A photo of the speaker is displayed on the bottom right of the graphics.
October 13, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at this week's metagenomics bioinformatics course. We look forward to seeing you put your newly learned skills into practice.

This course will next run in 2027. If you'd like to register your interest already, please do sign up for alerts: lnkd.in/ehC9SziK

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A group of people smile with their hands in the air waving to camera. Underneath them these words are written. 'Metagenomics bioinformatics at MGnify. 6 - 10 October 2025. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute. Hinxton, United Kingdom'.
October 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Join us next week to discover how gene-based methods unlock the bigger picture of bacterial pangenomes.
Registration is free but essential:
www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve... #pangenomics #bioinformatics #Genomics #BacterialResearch @embl.org @ebi.embl.org #webinar
Graphics image showing webinar at EMBL-EBI about Inferring bacterial pangenomes with gene-based approaches. The webinar will run on 15 October 2025 at 14:30 BST. The speaker is Neil MacAlasdair. Image credit: Karen Arnott and Rebecca Nicholl, EMBL-EBI
October 6, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Join us next week for the second #webinar in our #pangenomes series!

We will talk about the evolution of the accessory genome in bacteria, and how it plays an essential role in microbial diversity and adaptation.

Registration is free but essential: lnkd.in/e59HTpr8
Graphic detailing information for the webinar "Evolution of the accessory genome": the webinar will run on 8 October 2025, 14:30 - 15:30 BST. The speaker is Hsueh-Chien (Raymond) Cheng, from the Wellcome Sanger Institute. A photo of the speaker is displayed close to his name.
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Join us on 13 November for our six-hour virtual workshop dedicated to using @ebi.embl.org resources in practice.

'Chemicals in a biological context: metabolites, drugs, and beyond' will show you how to use ChEMBL, MetaboLights, and PDBe.

Registration is £45.00: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Virtual course Chemicals in a biological context: metabolites, drugs, and beyond EMBL-EBI resources in practice. 13 November 2025. Virtual. EMBL-EBI logo.
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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Join us on Thursday, 2 October for an introductory webinar on UniProt! We will explore the types of data available and how this data can be analysed to answer biological questions.

Register here: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

#UniProt #ProteinScience #UniProtWebsite #EMBLEBITraining #Webinar
Graphics image showing webinar at EMBL-EBI about "A guide to Uniprot for students". The webinar will run on 02 October 2025 at 15:00 BST. Graphic showing the speakers' photos and names, as well as their role at EMBL-EBI: David CJ Carpentier (Scientific Database Curator) and Paul Denny (Senior Database Curator)
September 23, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Thanks for all the trainers and attendees on this course, which was a lot of fun to run, and hopefully filled a gap in genomics/modelling training

And especially co-organisers @leonielorenz.bsky.social @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social Joel Hellewell
training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Sep 19
Thank you to everyone who joined us this week for the @embo.org Practical Course 'Methods for infectious disease modelling using genomics'.

Join us for 2026's EMBO Practical Course. Sign up for 'Causality in biomedicine' alerts and hear as this new course develops: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
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September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Thank you to everyone who joined us this week for the @embo.org Practical Course 'Methods for infectious disease modelling using genomics'.

Join us for 2026's EMBO Practical Course. Sign up for 'Causality in biomedicine' alerts and hear as this new course develops: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
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September 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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We're pleased to be running 'Data-driven approaches to understanding dementia' with the @ukdri.ac.uk again in 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

13 - 17 April 2026
Hinxton, United Kingdom
Applications close 5 January 2026.
Travel assistance and fee waivers are available.

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September 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Heads up! The Ensembl Rapid Release site (zurl.co/2iF0U) will be archived very soon.
All links to it will redirect to our new site: zurl.co/PMirU
The original data will remain accessible at zurl.co/9IQJv.
Questions? Reach us at helpdesk [at] ensembl.org
Homepage of the Ensembl Rapid Release site http://rapid.ensembl.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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'Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive' is back.

Join teams from across @ebi.embl.org to analyse your microscopy data using the latest machine learning and image analysis techniques.

Virtual course, UK time zone | 16 – 20 March 2026

www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Virtual course Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive 2026. 16 - 20 March 2026. EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute.
September 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM