International Society for Biocuration
@biocurator.bsky.social
The International Society for Biocuration (ISB) is a non profit organization for biocurators, developers, and researchers with an interest in biocuration. The society promotes the field of biocuration and provides a forum for informatio
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📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar!
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
📢 Join us for the next GlySpace Alliance Webinar!
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
🗓️ Tuesday, December 2, 2025 | 10 AM ET
🎙️Dr. Kelley Moremen & Chin Huang present: “Modeling glycans with AlphaFold 3: capabilities, caveats, and limitations”
🗒️Details: wiki.glygen.org/GlySpace_All...
#glycotime #glygen #researchtools
Abstract submission for #Biocuration 2026 closes this Friday, Nov. 21st. Don't miss the opportunity to join us, either in person or virtually, next April! Submit your abstract and register here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/tab/6...
African Bioinformatics Institute
www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa
November 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Abstract submission for #Biocuration 2026 closes this Friday, Nov. 21st. Don't miss the opportunity to join us, either in person or virtually, next April! Submit your abstract and register here: www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/tab/6...
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Excited to share that GlyGen & BiomarkerKB were featured at #SFG2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
November 18, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Excited to share that GlyGen & BiomarkerKB were featured at #SFG2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA!
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
Cyrus Chun Hong Au Yeung presented on a Large Language Model (LLM)-based Workflow for mining glycan biomarkers and harmonizing the results into BiomarkerKB & GlyGen.
#glycotime #biomarker
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Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The department of Biology is a large, unified department with strong undergraduate degrees, nationally-ranked graduate programs, and world-class research spanning the breadth of biological questions a...
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August 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Hello bluesky community!
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
I'm hiring a postdoc to do machine learning in population genetics.
Starting to build up a lab at Indiana University Bloomington where I just started a faculty position.
Apply with the below link: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30325
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Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
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New datasets available on beta.ensembl.org! Highlights include oats from the PanOat project, human assemblies from HPRC Release 2 and the pocket water lily, submitted by
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
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Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
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November 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New datasets available on beta.ensembl.org! Highlights include oats from the PanOat project, human assemblies from HPRC Release 2 and the pocket water lily, submitted by
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Image credit - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...
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💡3 days left!
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
💡3 days left!
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
Have you submitted your abstract yet? Don’t miss your chance to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from around the world🗺️.
⏱️Deadline: 21 Nov 2025
Submit here 👇https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration
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The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Vienna BioCenter Summer School 2026 call is now open for talented undergrads, it's a great opportunity for students who are interested in graduate study in the life sciences. Please RT
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
https://training.vbc.ac.at/summer-school/
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🌐 The GlySpace Alliance & Glycan Function Workshop at #SFG2025 brought together researchers, educators and students to advance glycan function annotation and digital representation and lead to great engagement, new examples, and collaborative insights!
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🌐 The GlySpace Alliance & Glycan Function Workshop at #SFG2025 brought together researchers, educators and students to advance glycan function annotation and digital representation and lead to great engagement, new examples, and collaborative insights!
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
#GlySpaceAlliance #Glycotime #Bioinformatics
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📣 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
Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
📣 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
Learn more on our Wiki Page: bit.ly/3LG2rZ1
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🌊✨ 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
@oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🌊✨ 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
@oceangenomelegacy.bsky.social
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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/...
Learn more: www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/nacda/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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/...
Learn more: www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/nacda/...
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Hear how @redfly-database.bsky.social can be used in the classroom to help teach #bioinformatics, #genome-annotation, #gene-regulation, #biocuration, and more!
Pumped for our virtual December 2025 Genomics Education Partnership Science Seminar, presented by Dr. Marc Halfon @marchalfon.bsky.social from the University at Buffalo on Monday, December 8th at 2pm CST. Hope to see you there!
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Hear how @redfly-database.bsky.social can be used in the classroom to help teach #bioinformatics, #genome-annotation, #gene-regulation, #biocuration, and more!
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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...
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...
November 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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...
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...
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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
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
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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
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
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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/...
(PDF) Exploring the Genotype-to-Phenotype Map Using Quantifiable Patterns in Metazoan Genomic and Morphological Data
PDF | On Nov 11, 2025, Kevin J. Peterson and others published Exploring the Genotype-to-Phenotype Map Using Quantifiable Patterns in Metazoan Genomic and Morphological Data | Find, read and cite all t...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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/...
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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 🧪🔓
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MassBank: an open and FAIR mass spectral data resource
Abstract. The open spectral library MassBank (https://massbank.jp/) started in 2006 in Japan, as one of the first open source and open access cross-vendor
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November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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 🧪🔓
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academic.oup.com/nar/advance-...
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🚀 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
🔗 Explore (SARS-CoV-2 spike, PDB 9CXE): ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb...
📄 Read the preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=568...
#PDBeKB #MacromolecularComplexes #StructuralBiology
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
🚀 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
🔗 Explore (SARS-CoV-2 spike, PDB 9CXE): ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-kb...
📄 Read the preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=568...
#PDBeKB #MacromolecularComplexes #StructuralBiology
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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.
Alliance Of Genome Resources Event Registration
Webinar recordings are posted at https://www.youtube.com/@AllianceOfGenomeResources
A schedule of future events is on the Alliance Events Calendar https://www.alliancegenome.org/event-calendar
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November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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.
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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!
PGS Catalog - The Polygenic Score Catalog
The Polygenic Score (PGS) Catalog is an open database of
published PGS and the relevant metadata needed to apply and evaluate them correctly.
www.PGSCatalog.org
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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!
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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
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📅 Jan 30, 2026, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. PT
Register by Dec 5, 2025
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Matchmaking Event | PROPEL
National PROPEL is hosting a virtual speed interviewing session to connect hiring faculty with postbac scholars looking for research experiences. At the event, participate in up to eight…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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
🔗
📅 Jan 30, 2026, 9 a.m.–1 p.m. PT
Register by Dec 5, 2025
🔗
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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
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#AlphaFold
AlphaFold Database launches custom annotations feature
The AlphaFold Database (AlphaFold DB) has introduced a new functionality that enables users to integrate and visualise custom sequence annotations. These annotations are processed in the browser for t...
www.ebi.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/u...
#AlphaFold
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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
🦋 @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
November 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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
🦋 @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
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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/
genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
November 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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/
genetics-gsa.org/yeast-2026/
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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
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
November 6, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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
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