Events

11 December 2025

From bench to database: the journey of a UniProt entry

UniProt serves as a leading global data resource for protein sequence and functional information. Behind every UniProt entry lies a story that begins at the laboratory bench. This webinar will trace t...

8 December 2025

Managing a bioinformatics core facility

This knowledge exchange workshop is an opportunity for managers of bioinformatics core facilities to learn from each other and EMBL-EBI’s service teams. These facilities play an essential role in en...

3 December 2025

Exploring molecular interactions in-depth across species

This webinar provides an introduction to the visualisation of molecular networks across species. It will begin with a presentation of the IntAct Portal’s approach to molecular network modelling. Sub...

25 November 2025

From RNA to the field: artificial intelligence applications in bioinformatics and agriculture in Argentina

This webinar explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is driving advances in bioinformatics by enhancing the integrated analysis of large volumes of genomic, transcriptomic, and agronomic data. In Ar...

20 November 2025

Accessing UniProt programmatically for students

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-curated, publicly available database of protein sequence, function, and variation information. In this webinar, we will give a basic introduction of programmatic acc...

18 November 2025

Artificial intelligence for exploring and understanding microbiomes

Microbiomes are complex ecosystems whose composition and dynamics shape the health of organisms and environments. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have transformed ...

17 November 2025

Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing

A guide to the technology, analysis workflows, tools, and resources for next generation sequencing data analysis. This course will provide insights and training into how biological knowledge can be de...

13 November 2025

Chemicals in a biological context: metabolites, drugs, and beyond

Small molecules (or chemicals) play a crucial role in biological systems, acting as precursors to macromolecules, cells, and tissues. Beyond this, they are involved in cell signalling, regulation, ene...

13 November 2025

Evaluating variant effects in human proteins with ProtVar

ProtVar integrates human variant annotations and predictions to uncover the functional effects of missense variation in humans. Learn how our diverse data and intuitive visualisations can help you to ...

12 November 2025

Pangenome annotations and resources in Ensembl

Ensembl provides pangenome annotations for many eukaryotic species, including human, model organisms, livestock and crop plants. In this talk, we will detail the annotation process we have developed f...

11 November 2025

Artificial intelligence in biomedical science in Argentina

This webinar presents several applications of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on machine learning techniques applied to the study of cancer, COVID-19 and other biomedical conditions. ...

5 November 2025

Pangenome graphs as a new paradigm in comparative genomics

Pangenome graphs are a novel approach to the problem of representing the genomic diversity present in a population. Instead of describing genomes in a linear fashion, as is done conventionally, pangen...

4 November 2025

Artificial intelligence, machine learning and AlphaFold in research: experiences from Latin America

In this webinar, we share experiences developed in Latin America regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Biosciences, specifically through machine learning algorithms for pattern recognit...

27 October 2025

Structural bioinformatics

This course provides a guide to the commonly used methods and tools in structural bioinformatics to analyse and interpret experimentally determined and AI-predicted macromolecular structure data. Stru...

23 October 2025

Redefining UniProt reference proteomes and upcoming changes in UniProtKB

In Uniprot , proteomes are the set of all translatable proteins from a genome assembly. A reference proteome (RP) is the one that best represents a species, is of the best quality, or is a ‘landmark...

22 October 2025

Making sense of massive genomic data by indexing at scale

As genomics and metagenomics datasets continue to grow in size, and assembled genomes accumulate due to progress in sequencing and assembly, efficient indexing is critical for enabling discovery and a...

17 October 2025

The BiotrAIn project: opportunities from Latin America

In this webinar, we present the BiotrAIn project, which focuses on a strategy to expand the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) and its application in the life sciences in Latin America. The ...

15 October 2025

Inferring bacterial pangenomes with gene-based approaches

The advent of the whole-genome sequencing era in bacteria led to both the initial definition of the term 'pangenome' and the rapid realisation that pangenomic methods would be indispensable to underst...

8 October 2025

Evolution of the accessory genome

The accessory genome, the set of genes variably present across members of a bacterial species, plays a central role in shaping microbial diversity and adaptation. Instead of a random collection of mob...

6 October 2025

Metagenomics bioinformatics at MGnify

Learn about the tools, processes, and analysis approaches used in the field of genome-resolved metagenomics. This course will cover the use of publicly available resources to manage, share, analyse, a...

2 October 2025

A guide to UniProt for students

UniProt provides the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar will guide you through ways in ...

1 October 2025

Introduction to pangenomes and why they are worth exploring

Pangenomes offer an alternative approach to using a singular linear reference genome, which is becoming increasingly important as both the volume and diversity of genomic data grows rapidly. However, ...

14 September 2025

Methods for infectious disease modelling using genomics

This EMBO Practical course will introduce concepts, methods, and tools for carrying out infectious disease modelling, as well as for developing models further by leveraging the power of genomics. Mode...

5 September 2025

ChEMBL workshop for drug design

ChEMBL is a database of bioactivity for drugs and drug like compounds. This webinar provides an overview of the chemical biology resources at EMBL-EBI focusing on the ChEMBL database. In the first par...

30 July 2025

Deploying Nextflow pipelines in the cloud: a practical introduction

Modern biological research generates vast amounts of data that require complex computational workflows to process efficiently and reproducibly. As data volumes continue to grow, so does the demand for...

14 July 2025

Proteomics bioinformatics

This course provides hands-on training in the basics of mass spectrometry (MS) and proteomics bioinformatics. You will receive training on how to use search engines and post-processing software, quant...

9 July 2025

Exploring macromolecular protein assemblies and their visualisation with Complex Portal

Protein complexes play a crucial role in driving biological functions and processes, making it important to gain insights into proteins and their higher-order assemblies. Complex Portal is a curated r...

7 July 2025

Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight

This course covers the use of computational tools to extract biological insight from omics datasets. The content will explore a range of approaches – from network inference and data integration to m...

2 July 2025

Cambridge New Therapeutics Forum

CamNTF promotes interactions between scientists from academia & industry. Open to scientists interested in translational research and new therapeutics. 3 talks followed by networking.

2 July 2025

A journey to FAIR bioimage data

Bioimaging is a pervasive and indispensable methodological approach in the life and biomedical sciences. Due to the development of new technologies and the easier access to compute resources, bioimagi...

25 June 2025

Open FAIR data: the role of public data archives

Scientific progress relies on open FAIR data. Describing datasets with rich metadata and appropriate standards, and submitting these to public archives, is crucial in linking different data types in a...

24 June 2025

Data visualisation for biology

This course will give insights into, and practical experience in, data visualisation for exploring complex and multi-dimensional biological data. Biological and life sciences data often consists of mu...

16 June 2025

Data science for life scientists

This course will introduce life scientists to practical data science topics used in life sciences, such as data handling and visualisation, statistical analysis, application of AI, and use of publicly...

11 June 2025

A FAIR and scalable workflow for plankton phenogenomics at single cell level

High throughput single cell approaches have become increasingly applied in marine sciences. Predominantly separated between single cell sequencing, or single cell imaging, the next frontier aims at co...

5 June 2025

From sequences to structures: Protein characterisation using EMBL-EBI APIs

Proteins are fundamental to biological processes, and understanding their sequence, structure, and function is crucial for various applications in research. This one-day, hands-on virtual workshop wil...

4 June 2025

Data management in a bioimage informatics data flow

Making image data and their analysis output public aims at supporting transparency, auditability and reproducibility of a research project. However crucial contextual information is often lost along t...

28 May 2025

Towards open and standardised imaging data: an introduction to Bio-Formats, OME-TIFF, and OME-Zarr

Microscopy and bioimaging technologies are fundamental tools for exploring biological systems, generating large, multidimensional datasets rich in experimental detail. However, the bioimaging communit...

21 May 2025

Mastering data management: Go FAIR, Go Open, Go Smart — EMO BON and TREC showcases

Making data FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) and open benefits both for the data provider and future users. In this webinar, we will discuss how making data FAIR and open has al...

20 May 2025

Introduction to metabolomics analysis

This course will provide an introduction to metabolomics through lectures and hands-on sessions, using publicly available data, software, and tools. Participants will become familiar with standardised...

14 May 2025

Principles of research data management

In today’s data-rich research environment, good data management isn’t just about storage - it’s about enabling collaboration, reproducibility, and long-term value. This webinar introduces fundam...

12 May 2025

Cancer genomics and transcriptomics

This course will focus on the analysis of data from genomic studies of cancer. It will also highlight the application of transcriptomic analysis and single-cell technologies in cancer. Talks and inter...

8 May 2025

Navigating UniProt: a brief overview and recent updates

Join us for an engaging webinar that will guide you through the new and enhanced features and functionalities of the UniProt website. Designed with user experience at the forefront, the website offers...

23 April 2025

From variant to drug target: using the expanded Open Targets Platform to explore the genetics of target discovery

The Open Targets Platform is a comprehensive research tool that supports systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drug targets.‌ By integrating publicly available datase...

16 April 2025

LLMs in bioinformatics Q&A session

Join us for a live panel discussion as part of our ongoing webinar series, Large Language Models and their applications in bioinformatics. This interactive Q&A session offers attendees the opportunity...

10 April 2025

Exploring Human Disease and Protein Variant Data in UniProtKB and Contextualising Variation with ProtVar

UniProt KnowledgeBase (UniProtKB) supports biomedical research by providing a comprehensive, high-quality, and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. During this we...

2 April 2025

Domain-specific knowledge extraction from scientific texts using LLMs

This webinar will explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) can streamline the extraction of critical information from scientific texts, focusing on patient-derived cancer models (PDCMs). PDCMs are vit...

31 March 2025

Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive

This virtual course will show how public bioimaging data resources, centred around the BioImage Archive, enable and enhance machine learning based image analysis. The content will explore a variety of...

26 March 2025

BioChatter and the future of LLM driven bioscience

LLMs are the biggest new industry on our planet. Considering the amount of research and investments in the field, large and rapid progress is expected for the coming decade. However, to make use of th...

19 March 2025

LLM generated summaries for protein classification at InterPro

This webinar will explore how Large Language Models can accelerate protein classification by automatically generating descriptive annotations for previously unannotated protein families. Traditionally...

17 March 2025

Gene-environment interactions in human health and disease

This introductory course explores the complex interplay between genes and the environment in shaping human phenotypes. Participants will gain knowledge of cohort datasets, environmental readouts, and ...

6 March 2025

UniProt for proteomics scientists

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function and variation information. It also encompasses a wealth of large-scale proteomics data, resources and ...

5 March 2025

Developing a dataset for LLM projects

As large language models (LLMs) continue to revolutionise artificial intelligence applications, the importance of high-quality data preparation has never been more critical. This webinar dives into th...

3 March 2025

Introduction to multi-omics data integration and visualisation

With the increase in the volume of data across the whole spectrum of biology, more opportunities, as well as challenges, have been created to identify novel perspectives and answer questions in life s...

27 February 2025

Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Competencies: training challenges and needs of research infrastructures and core facilities

Update: the application period is closed, but additional spaces may be available, please contact the organisers if interested. The Biodata Developers’ (BioDev) Network, Wellcome Sanger Institute and...

26 February 2025

Basics of Large Language Models – transformers to LLMs

We will introduce Large Language Models (LLMs), focusing on their core architecture, training methodologies, practical applications, and some important considerations. We begin with a brief exploratio...

24 February 2025

Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation

Gain an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools, and resources used in RNA sequencing and transcriptomics. The content will provide a broad overview of the subject area, and introduce par...

17 February 2025

Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python

This course covers the analysis of single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data using Python and command line tools. Participants will be guided through droplet-based scRNA-seq analysis pipelines from ...

13 February 2025

Sequence analysis tools in UniProt: BLAST and Align

UniProt provides the scientific community with a freely accessible collection of protein sequences and functional information and is one of the most widely used protein resources in the world. BLAST a...

5 February 2025

Explore small molecules in the PDB easily using PDBe-KB Ligand Pages

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a global archive containing over 200,000 experimentally-determined 3D structures of biomolecules like proteins, DNA, and RNA. Interestingly, about 75% of these structure...

30 January 2025

Automated annotation in UniProt

UniProt is a high quality, comprehensive protein resource in which the core activity is the expert review and annotation of proteins where the function has been experimentally investigated. At the sam...

29 January 2025

Introducing the new Ensembl Genome Browser

Ensembl creates and imports genome annotations, including data on genes, variations, regulation, and comparative genomics, for vertebrates, non-vertebrates, and key model organisms, providing this inf...

15 January 2025

An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

EMBL-EBI is the home of the world's most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. Our resources help researchers share and analyse data and perform complex queries in...

14 January 2025

Primer for predocs 2025

This course is aimed to provide an orientation for new predocs to EMBL-EBI. Databases and services will be introduced, along with other useful information for starting out at EMBL-EBI.

11 December 2024

Uncovering protein function with UniProt

UniProt provides the scientific community with a freely accessible collection of protein sequence and functional information and is one of the most widely used protein resources in the world. This web...

4 December 2024

Calculating polygenic scores with the Polygenic Score Catalog Calculator

Polygenic scores (PGS) are a measurement which represents genetic predisposition for a heritable trait or phenotype by aggregating the effects of hundreds-to-millions of genetic variants into a single...

28 November 2024

Small molecule chemistry: from proteins to pathways

Small molecules play an important role in biological systems. They provide the precursors to macromolecules, have roles in cell signalling and regulation, and can be used to treat diseases. To underst...

27 November 2024

Navigating patent data with SureChEMBL

Patents are legal documents that grant inventors exclusive rights for a limited time, in return for publicly disclosing their innovations. In the pharmaceutical industry, thousands of patents are publ...

20 November 2024

Investigating gene function and human disease through data on the IMPC portal

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC) is a resource created by an international collaborative effort from 21 research institutions, aiming to identify the function of every mammalian p...

18 November 2024

Genome bioinformatics: from short- to long-read sequencing

A guide to the technology, analysis workflows, tools, and resources for next-generation sequencing data analysis. This course will provide insights and training into how biological knowledge can be de...

18 November 2024

Plant genomes: from data to discovery

This course will take you through a selection of genomic tools and open resources to help you explore plant genomes and answer biological questions. Covering a range of omics data including genomic, p...

13 November 2024

MGnify Proteins: a new resource of 2.5 billion proteins for exploring metagenomics sequence space

MGnify is EMBL-EBI’s microbiome data resource which enables the analysis and exploration of metagenomic, metatranscriptomic, amplicon and assembly data. This webinar will showcase the recently relea...

6 November 2024

A guide to Job Dispatcher sequence analysis tools and programmatic access

The Job Dispatcher at EMBL-EBI provides free access to a variety of bioinformatics tools and biological datasets via web and programmatic interfaces. This webinar will provide a comprehensive guide on...

4 November 2024

Structural bioinformatics

This course provides a guide to the commonly used methods and tools in structural bioinformatics to analyse and interpret experimentally determined and AI-predicted macromolecular structure data. Stru...

31 October 2024

Programmatic access to UniProt using Python

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function and variation information. This webinar will give an overview of programmatic access to the UniProt da...

29 October 2024

Managing a bioinformatics core facility

This knowledge exchange workshop is an opportunity for managers of bioinformatics core facilities to learn from EMBL-EBI’s service teams, and from each other. These facilities play an essential role...

23 October 2024

I made my code open – now what? Steps to a thriving open software project

Sharing your code is a good first step towards building open source software, but it is not enough to ensure its success. This webinar focuses on practical issues to increase impact of open software p...

16 October 2024

Spatial multi-omics integration: metabolites meet RNA

Recently emerged spatial omics technologies provide unprecedented insights into spatial aspects of gene expression, protein localisation, and metabolite concentrations in tissues. Now, the increasingl...

10 October 2024

A guide to UniProt for students

UniProt provides the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar will guide you through ways in ...

9 October 2024

Visualising integrated single cell and spatial transcriptomics datasets

Spatial transcriptomics is a cutting-edge field that has revolutionised our understanding of biological systems by integrating spatial information with transcriptomics technologies. WebAtlas is a data...

2 October 2024

Building a spatial transcriptomics platform

The Light Imaging Facility (LIF) at EMBL Rome offers training and support to users for experimental design, tissue sample processing, imaging data acquisition, and image analysis. Importantly, the LIF...

1 October 2024

Computational Biology Training in Hematology 2024, Module 2

Computational Biology Training in Hematology (CBTH) provides early-career researchers aiming to specialize in computational and quantitative biology aspects of hematology with a unique, year-long trai...

25 September 2024

Developing data infrastructures and analytical systems for spatial omics

Spatially resolved omics technologies are revolutionising our understanding of biological tissues by introducing new ways to characterise tissue architectures and identify cell-cell interactions. Howe...

23 September 2024

Metagenomics bioinformatics at MGnify

Learn about the tools, processes, and analysis approaches used in the field of genome-resolved metagenomics. This course will cover the use of publicly available resources to manage, share, analyse, a...

23 September 2024

Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python

This course covers the analysis of single cell RNA-seq data using Python and command line tools. Participants will be guided through droplet-based single cell RNA-seq analysis pipelines from raw reads...

18 September 2024

Inferring cell-cell communication through spatial transcriptomics data

By leveraging spatial coordinate information with expression levels of ligands and target receptors, computational methods developed for analysing spatial transcriptomics data can predict biologically...

11 September 2024

Technological advances and computational approaches for spatially-resolved transcriptomics

Spatially-resolved transcriptomics enables high-throughput gene expression profiling within the spatial context of tissues, offering valuable insights into cellular function and tissue organisation. B...

16 July 2024

Cambridge New Therapeutics Forum

CamNTF promotes interactions between scientists from academia & industry. Open to scientists interested in translational research and new therapeutics. 3 talks followed by networking.

15 July 2024

Proteomics bioinformatics

Thank you to those of you who have applied, we have now selected our participants and wait list. There are no more spaces available. You can however register your interest for the 2025 course here . T...

8 July 2024

Hands-on Arthropod Bioinformatics Workshop

Join us for a 2-day workshop focused on hands-on training on utilising web-based data-mining resources for arthropods: Ensembl Metazoa and VectorBase , to analyse both public and private datasets. Omi...

4 July 2024

Ensembl Browser Workshop, Cenicafe

The one-day browser workshop offers participants the possibility of gaining lots of hands-on experience in the use of the Ensembl genome browser, but also provides them with the necessary background i...

1 July 2024

Bioinformatics for immunologists

This course will provide participants with an introduction to a range of bioinformatics resources and approaches applicable to immunological research. Participants will gain experience in analysis pip...

26 June 2024

Data visualisation principles for enhancing effective scientific communication

This webinar will provide an introduction to data visualisation principles. It includes a review of basic concepts and showcases tools to improve your understanding and use of data visualisation for i...

24 June 2024

Cancer genomics and transcriptomics

This course will focus on the analysis of data from genomic studies of cancer. It will also highlight the application of transcriptomic analysis and single-cell technologies in cancer. Talks and inter...

17 June 2024

Summer school in bioinformatics

This course provides an introduction to the use of bioinformatics in biological research, giving you guidance for using bioinformatics in your work whilst also providing hands-on training in tools and...

11 June 2024

Advanced Methods Seminars: Chris Wallace, University of Cambridge

Advanced Methods Seminars series by Chris Wallace, University of Cambridge - 'Using evidence for shared genetic causality to better understand human traits'

10 June 2024

Systems biology: from large datasets to biological insight

This course covers the use of computational tools to extract biological insight from omics datasets. The content will explore a range of approaches – ranging from network inference and data integrat...

7 June 2024

AlphaMissense predictions for human genetic variation research

This webinar will explore AlphaMissense, a model based on AlphaFold. AlphaMissense is designed to analyse missense variants, which are individual amino acid changes in proteins. Classifying these vari...

24 May 2024

Interpreting the effects of genetic variants on protein structure and function

Genetic variation between individuals results in a range of human phenotypes. Variants that fall within coding regions of genes generally have direct effects on the proteins encoded by the genes with ...

15 May 2024

Accessing sequence analysis tools via the new Job Dispatcher website

The Job Dispatcher team at EMBL-EBI provides access to various bioinformatics sequence analysis tools (EMBOSS, Clustal omega, NCBI BLAST+, etc) and biological datasets. This webinar will introduce the...

14 May 2024

Introduction to metabolomics analysis

This course will provide an introduction to metabolomics through lectures and hands-on sessions, using publicly available data, software, and tools. Participants will become familiar with standardised...

14 May 2024

Open Virtual Ensembl REST API Workshop

Work with Ensembl to master the Ensembl REST API and flexibly access genome-wide data, such as genes, variants, regulatory features, homologues and alignments.

9 May 2024

Exploring human disease and protein variant data in UniProtKB

UniProt KnowledgeBase (UniProtKB) supports biomedical research by providing a comprehensive, high-quality, and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar w...

8 May 2024

Wine yeasts as a model system in community ecology

Wine fermentation constitutes a transient microbial ecosystem wherein numerous yeast species, originating from the grape surface, engage in interactions. This leads to an ecological succession anticip...

7 May 2024

Open Virtual Ensembl Browser Workshop

Work with the Ensembl Outreach team to get to grips with the Ensembl browser, accessing gene, variation, comparative genomics and regulation data, and mine these data with BioMart.

1 May 2024

Harmony in diversity: exploring the rich microbiomes of South American wildlife

Colombia and northern South America is known as a biodiversity hotspot, but at the basis of that diversity is the microbial communities. With recent advances in metagenomics, the microbial communities...

24 April 2024

Introduction to the Ensembl Bacteria genome browser

Ensembl Bacteria is a browser for bacterial and archaeal genomes. In this webinar, we will explore Ensembl Bacteria to learn more about the latest data and where it came from, view annotation of molec...

22 April 2024

Microscopy data analysis: machine learning and the BioImage Archive

This virtual course will show how public bioimaging data resources, centred around the BioImage Archive, enable and enhance machine learning based image analysis. The content will explore a variety of...

17 April 2024

Statistical thinking for microbial ecology

Most microbial ecologists understand the importance of rigorous statistical analysis for conducting a replicable study. However, formal courses in the statistical analysis of high-dimensional ecologic...

16 April 2024

Computational Biology Training in Hematology 2024, Module 1

Computational Biology Training in Hematology (CBTH) provides early-career researchers aiming to specialize in computational and quantitative biology aspects of hematology with a unique, year-long trai...

16 April 2024

Protein-protein interactions – untapped drug targets

Get an understanding of protein-protein Interactions for untapped drug targets from Jessica Holie, Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia.

11 April 2024

Curating proteins involved in Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in UniProt

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function, and variation information. This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt website and the...

8 April 2024

Data-driven approaches to understanding dementia

This course provides individuals working in dementia research with the skills to access and analyse dementia data. Participants will learn to apply bioinformatics methodologies, combine different data...

28 March 2024

Explore Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) data in Ensembl

The Human Pangenome Reference Consortium (HPRC) aims to construct a comprehensive and representative human pangenome reference to better illustrate the genomic landscape of diverse human populations. ...

27 March 2024

The Pathogens Portal: A gateway to vast biomolecular data for pathogen research

The COVID-19 pandemic starkly illuminated the crucial role of open biodata in combating infectious diseases. EMBL-EBI, recognising this significance, swiftly launched the COVID-19 Data Portal, a centr...

20 March 2024

Microbial biodiversity at schools and its link with children’s health

There is a wealth of microbial diversity in the environment, in soil, on plants, and in the atmosphere. Urbanisation usually involves disturbance and sealing of soil, along with a decrease and alterat...

19 March 2024

Metabarcoding and data sharing for environmental DNA

This course will demonstrate applying metabarcoding analysis to eDNA for assessing biodiversity. Sequencing DNA barcodes from mixed sources of DNA is being increasingly used to survey biodiversity, wh...

18 March 2024

Livestock genomics

This hands-on virtual course will introduce participants to methods and approaches for analysing genomic data from common livestock species, including cattle, pig, chicken, and sheep. During the cours...

13 March 2024

Strain-resolved approaches for human microbiome studies

In the last few years, the human microbiome has received great attention by the community due to its fundamental role in health and disease. Advancements in the field have also been possible due to te...

11 March 2024

Mathematics of life: modelling molecular mechanisms

This course will provide participants with an introduction and hands-on training on modelling approaches, tools, and resources used in systems biology as well as touch on network analysis. Computer mo...

6 March 2024

Bioinformatic approaches to understand the role of the human microbiome in health and disease

The human microbiome represents a diverse community of microbes with important roles for the maintenance of human health. The wealth of metagenomics data currently available has brought about a new er...

4 March 2024

Introduction to multi-omics data integration and visualisation

With the increase in the volume of data across the whole spectrum of biology, more opportunities as well as challenges have been created to identify novel perspectives and answer questions in life sci...

29 February 2024

UniProt for proteomics scientists

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function, and variation information. This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt website and the...

28 February 2024

Exploring metagenomes to assess microbiomes across the globe

A metagenome is a sequencing sample of a bulk microbial community, providing a genetic snapshot of the entire microbiome sampled. Metagenomics offers a comprehensive genetic overview of microbial comm...

19 February 2024

Exploring gene and environmental exposure interactions to understand human health and disease

This introductory course explores the complex interplay between genes and the environment in shaping human phenotypes. Participants will gain knowledge of cohort datasets, environmental readouts, and ...

14 February 2024

Investigating microbial ecology in extreme habitats

Understanding the mechanisms by which microorganisms have adapted over geological time is crucial in anticipating how they will evolve in the future, in the light of climate change and global warming....

12 February 2024

Introduction to RNA-seq and functional interpretation

Gain an introduction to the technology, data analysis, tools, and resources used in RNA sequencing and transcriptomics. The content will provide a broad overview of the subject area, and introduce par...

8 February 2024

Sequence analysis tools in UniProt: BLAST and Align

UniProt provides the scientific community with a freely accessible collection of protein sequences and functional information and is one of the most widely used protein resources in the world. BLAST a...

31 January 2024

Exploring target-disease associations with the Open Targets Platform’s new interface

The Open Targets Platform — https://platform.opentargets.org/ — is a comprehensive research tool that supports systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drug targets.�...

18 January 2024

Automated annotation in UniProt

UniProt is a high quality, comprehensive protein resource in which the core activity is the expert review and annotation of proteins where the function has been experimentally investigated. At the sam...

17 January 2024

An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

EMBL-EBI is the home of the world's most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. Our resources help researchers share and analyse data and perform complex queries in...

17 January 2024

CamNTF | T-cell function and immunotherapies

Hosted by the Babraham Institute, learn more about 'T-cell function and immunotherapies' and network with scientists from academia & industry from the Cambridge area.

14 December 2023

Uncovering protein function with UniProt

UniProt provides the scientific community with a freely accessible collection of protein sequence and functional information and is one of the most widely used protein resources in the world. This web...

29 November 2023

Studying metabolites and small molecules with MetaboLights and ChEBI

Metabolites are small molecules that play important roles in biological and cellular processes. They act as signalling molecules, serve as cofactors, involved in energy production and storage, and thu...

22 November 2023

Accessing single cell transcriptome data with the Human Cell Atlas Data Portal

The Human Cell Atlas is an ambitious project that aims to map the transcriptome of all the cell types in the human body. This effort relies on single cell data generated from hundreds of labs across t...

16 November 2023

EMBL-EBI Seminar | Ola Engkvist, AstraZeneca

Ola Engkvist, Head Molecular AI at AstraZeneca will give a seminar on "Applying AI to drug design"

16 November 2023

Programmatic access to UniProt using Python

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function and variation information.This webinar will give an overview of programmatic access to the UniProt dat...

15 November 2023

Complex Portal: from proteins to complexes

Complex Portal is a curated resource designed to offer insights into proteins and their higher-level complexes. These complexes play a crucial role in governing protein functionality and stability. In...

12 November 2023

Protein Structure Determination in Industry 2023

EMBL-EBI and GSK are co-organising the 31st Protein Structure Determination in Industry Meeting hosted at the Hinxton Hall Conference Centre.

8 November 2023

Exploring protein families and domains using InterPro

InterPro provides functional analysis of proteins by classifying them into families and predicting domains and important sites using predictive models provided by 13 different databases. This webinar ...

7 November 2023

Multiscale model of the different modes of invasion: a PhysiBoSS application

The tumour microenvironment encompasses many different cell types including cancer cells, stromal cells, immune cells, and the extracellular matrix (ECM), that interact and collectively influence canc...

7 November 2023

How to make your research open with Europe PMC

Europe PMC is an open global database of life science publications and preprints hosted by European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). Europe PMC is endorsed and supported by a group of internationa...

1 November 2023

Exploring protein sequences and functional annotations with UniProt

UniProt provides the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar will guide you through ways in ...

18 October 2023

Finding and interpreting protein structure and function data using PDBe-KB

Proteins are the workhorses of the cell, responsible for most biological functions. Though we can group related proteins through sequence similarity, it is the 3-dimensional structure of these protein...

11 October 2023

Accessing and interpreting predicted protein structures from AlphaFold database

AlphaFold database (AlphaFold DB) provides open access to over 200 million protein structure predictions to accelerate scientific research. This webinar aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to...

5 October 2023

Poster winners, PerMedCoE Summer School 2023

This special edition of the PerMedCoE webinar series features speakers who were awarded poster prizes at the PerMedCoE Summer School 2023. Find out more about our speakers and their research.Towards T...

4 October 2023

Studying genes and genomes with Ensembl genome browser

The Ensembl genome browser provides data on genes, variants, comparative genomics, and gene regulation for over 300 species. Its sister project, Ensembl Genomes (www.ensemblgenomes.org), consists of f...

27 September 2023

Nucleotide sequencing data submission and retrieval at the ENA

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) is an open-access, supported platform for the management, sharing, integration, archiving and dissemination of sequence data. The archive provides a comprehensive...

21 September 2023

A guided tour of improvements to the UniProt website

This webinar will provide an interactive introduction to the UniProt website. Developed with our user community in mind, the website aims to allow users to access all data provided by the UniProt cons...

21 September 2023

EMBL-EBI/University of Cambridge Collaboratorium 2023

The University of Cambridge and EMBL-EBI are hosting a joint one-day computational biology symposium to explore collaborative research and future opportunities between the two institutions. 

20 September 2023

Using RNAcentral to explore and investigate non-coding RNA sequences

Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a key molecule for life. They are involved in many complex biological processes, from gene regulation to translation. This complexity has led to an explosion of many diffe...

13 September 2023

Digital twins for drug repurposing by integrating mathematical modelling and machine learning: bridging the gap between in silico and real-world data

The rapid development of computational approaches has revolutionised the field of drug discovery and repurposing. Here I will show a practical application of digital twins built by the synergistic com...

5 July 2023

A guide to sequence analysis resources in Job Dispatcher

The Job Dispatcher team at EMBL-EBI provides access to various bioinformatics sequence analysis tools and biological datasets. This webinar will introduce different tool categories and explain how to ...

28 June 2023

Developing community resources for bioimage analysis training

Bioimage analysis is becoming an established field in bioinformatics, however consolidated curricula and reusable training material are still hard to come by. This webinar will showcase the developmen...

21 June 2023

A guide to identifying suitable patient-derived cancer models in CancerModels.Org

Patient-derived cancer models (PDCMs) have become an essential tool in both cancer research and preclinical studies. Each model type offers unique advantages and is better suited for specific research...

15 June 2023

Utilising GPUs in scientific algorithms

Nowadays, GPU programming plays an important role in software development. The massive parallel hardware enables us to analyze bigger datasets, process data in finer details or visualize simulations i...

8 June 2023

Improving the accessibility of the EMBL-EBI website: background, process, and lessons

In the last couple of years there has been an increased interest in digital accessibility at EMBL-EBI and our parent organisation EMBL. In this webinar, we will share how we have been making the case ...

24 May 2023

Contextualising human missense variation with ProtVar

Genomic variation can impact normal biological function in complex ways and so understanding variant effects requires a broad range of data to be coherently assimilated. Understanding variation in pro...

24 May 2023

Cambridge New Therapeutics Forum | Developing and applying computational approaches for translational research

Learn more about EMBL-EBI's translational research and network with scientists from academia & industry from the Cambridge area

23 May 2023

A beginner’s guide to interpreting results from biostatistics

This webinar will cover the general concepts behind hypothesis testing workflow, including summary statistics, null and alternative hypotheses, and p-values. We will focus specifically on what you sho...

17 May 2023

Annotating genomes with non-coding RNAs using Rfam and Infernal

Rfam is a database of RNA families that currently contains over 4,000 families. Together with the Infernal software, Rfam is commonly used to annotate non-coding RNAs in newly sequenced genomes. In th...

10 May 2023

Data protection and privacy preservation in software development

When writing software to process health, genetic or other sensitive data in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, software developers and researchers must consider the requirements of the General...

10 May 2023

Developing an improved understanding of the structure and function of the wheat root microbiome

The root microbiome is selected by plants and can benefit crop plants in several ways including improved plant nutritional status as well as protection against biotic and abiotic stresses. There are v...

3 May 2023

Historical perspectives on plant science databases

This webinar will discuss the history of database development in the plant sciences, with a focus on European efforts to build international, cross-institutional genebank databases. Although accounts ...

26 April 2023

Applications and impacts of the BrAPI project on plant breeding

Modern genomic breeding methods rely heavily on very large amounts of phenotypic and genotypic data, presenting new challenges in effective data management and integration. The datasets are often larg...

19 April 2023

Kew tree of life project: discovering the phylogeny of all flowering plants

High throughput sequencing has transformed approaches to phylogenetic analysis, allowing the construction of trees based on multiple loci and consideration of incongruence between nuclear and plastid ...

12 April 2023

Pangenomics and machine learning for crop improvement

The changing climate and increasing human population mean that we need to accelerate the production of improved crop varieties. Advances in genomics and phenomics are helping to accelerate crop improv...

23 March 2023

Development of a virtual Rheumatoid Arthritis synovial fibroblast for large-scale dynamic analysis and efficient drug-target identification

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex, systemic autoimmune disease that primarily affects the lining of the synovial joints and involves an intricate interplay among genotype and environmental trigge...

22 March 2023

Single-cell and spatial omics technologies in plant science

Recent technological advances in single-cell and spatial omics have revolutionised how we study biology by enabling researchers to see what used to be hidden behind the heterogeneity within the tissue...

21 March 2023

Discover drug targets with Europe PMC Machine Learning Dataset and Open Targets

This webinar introduces the Europe PMC human-annotated full-text corpus for Gene/Proteins, Diseases and Organisms and highlights how it has been used to train machine learning models for systematic id...

15 March 2023

Applying mathematical modelling to biological problems in plant science

This webinar will give an overview of the ways in which mathematical models, closely integrated with experimental data, can be used to give new insights into biological problems. We will discuss model...

9 March 2023

Supercomputer-based modelling and simulation for advanced biomedical applications

In this talk we will show advancements on the usage of supercomputer-based modelling and simulation in advanced biomedical applications, including tools for creating virtual populations of Virtual Hum...

8 March 2023

Non-invasive phenotyping to quantify the dynamics of plant-environment interaction

Genes provide a toolbox by which plants can interact with their spatially and temporally highly dynamic environment. The environment of shoots and roots are distinctly different in their spatial and t...

7 March 2023

Data submission for genome-wide association studies at the GWAS Catalog

The GWAS Catalog is a major repository for full summary statistics from genome-wide association studies. We encourage authors to submit their data to us, to make them accessible and reusable by the wi...

2 March 2023

UniProt for proteomics scientists

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function and variation information. This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt website and then...

1 March 2023

Exploring plant genes and genomes with Ensembl

The Ensembl Plants genome browser provides visualisation and analysis of integrated genomic data, including genes, variants, comparative genomics and gene regulation, for over 100 plant species and cu...

22 February 2023

Interrogating the effect of enzyme kinetics on metabolism using differentiable constraint-based models

Metabolic models are typically characterised by a large number of parameters. Traditionally, metabolic control analysis has been applied to differential equation-based models to investigate the sensit...

22 February 2023

Accessing variant data at the European Variation Archive

The European Variation Archive (EVA) is a primary open repository for archiving, accessioning, and distributing genome variation including single nucleotide variants, short insertions and deletions (i...

10 February 2023

Accessing human disease and protein variant information in UniProtKB

UniProt knowledgebase (UniProtKB) supports biomedical research by providing a comprehensive, high-quality, and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar w...

9 February 2023

The case of data reuse: ethical, legal, and societal issues in international genomic data access and sharing

Health data collected in cohort studies are valuable sources for knowledge generation and the advance of biomedical research. However, the use of these data for research projects beyond the initial pu...

1 February 2023

Exploring reproducible and reusable systems biology models with BioModels

This webinar will give an overview of BioModels, a popular repository of curated systems biology models. This will include a recent update on model content and features. It will also briefly introduce...

31 January 2023

Federated analysis for polygenic risk score calculations

Polygenic risk scores (PRS) provide an estimate of an individual’s disposition to a trait or complex disease which are calculated as the sum of the risk alleles weighted by the effect size estimate ...

25 January 2023

Accessing fine-grained Molecular Interactions data with IntAct

This webinar will provide an introduction to molecular interactions and how to find these through the molecular interaction database IntAct. We will demonstrate examples of how you can search for inte...

25 January 2023

Data-driven modelling of intercellular interactions in the tumour microenvironment

Monocyte-derived macrophages help maintain tissue homeostasis and defend the organism against pathogens. In tumours, recent studies have uncovered complex macrophage populations, including tumour-asso...

18 January 2023

Introduction to EMBL-EBI for teachers and trainers

EMBL-EBI is the home of the world's most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. Our resources help researchers share and analyse data and perform complex queries in...

15 December 2022

Introducing PerMedCoE Building Blocks and Workflows to streamline biological analysis pipelines

Analysing biological datasets is nearly always a multi-step process involving many interconnected stages. Even so, the lack of transparent approaches to managing complex data analysis pipelines remain...

14 December 2022

Exploring somatic mutations in cancer with the COSMIC database and analysis tools

COSMIC (the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer) helps the global cancer research community conduct their science faster and better by presenting easy to understand, streamlined, and quality filt...

8 December 2022

Automated annotation in UniProt

UniProt is a high quality, comprehensive protein resource in which the core activity is the expert review and annotation of proteins where the function has been experimentally investigated. At the sam...

7 December 2022

Chemical biology Q&A session

This Q&A (question and answer) webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed ‘

30 November 2022

Biocuration Q&A session

This Q&A (question and answer) webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed ‘…; A curated set of EMBL-EBI online courses’

23 November 2022

The environmental impact of computational biology

The environmental impact of (scientific) computing, computational biology in particular, is a growing concern in light of the urgency of the climate crisis, and there is widespread interest in the res...

17 November 2022

Uncovering protein function with UniProt

The webinar will cover what functional information is available in UniProt and where that information comes from. It will also describe how the information is added to the resource and how to find it ...

15 November 2022

Croupier, an user-centric meta-orchestrator for cross-platform workflow delivery and execution

The orchestration of complex application workflows executed in the context of High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures requires the joint collaboration of application designers/developers, HPC...

10 November 2022

Modular and reproducible workflows for federated molecular QTL analysis

Genetic analysis of molecular traits such as gene expression, splicing and chromatin accessibility requires a number of complex analysis steps that can easily take weeks or months for an analyst to im...

9 November 2022

Improving data reproducibility for chemosensitivity assays using MICHA

Chemosensitivity assays are commonly used for preclinical drug discovery and clinical trial optimisation. However, poor inter- and intra-laboratory reproducibility has been reported, largely attribute...

2 November 2022

Finding and using publicly available data Q&A session

This Q&A (question and answer) webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed ‘

27 October 2022

A guide to UniProt for students

UniProt provides the scientific community with a comprehensive, high-quality and freely accessible resource of protein sequence and functional information. This webinar will guide you through ways in ...

12 October 2022

Introductory bioinformatics Q&A session: proteins and structures

This Q&A (question and answer) webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed

11 October 2022

Data protection and security aspects of running simulations on personal data with HPC

When processing health and genetic data in High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, researchers must consider the application of research ethics principles as well as the General Data Protection Reg...

5 October 2022

Introductory bioinformatics Q&A session: genes and gene expression

This Q&A (question and answer) webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed

29 September 2022

Programmatic access to UniProt using Python

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function and variation information.

28 September 2022

Finding Pfam’s protein families data in the InterPro website

Pfam is a large collection of multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models covering many common protein domains.

22 September 2022

A guided tour of new and improved UniProt website

This webinar will provide an interactive introduction to the new and improved UniProt website.

21 September 2022

An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

EMBL-EBI is the home of the world's most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. Our resources help researchers share and analyse data and perform complex queries in...

28 June 2022

Impact of AlphaFold on research and development

This is the third and last webinar of the series about the impact of AlphaFold on training and research in life sciences. This webinar will focus on the impact of AlphaFold on research and development...

22 June 2022

An introduction to the COVID-19 Data Portal

The

21 June 2022

Impact of AlphaFold on teaching and training in life sciences

This is the second webinar of the series about the impact of AlphaFold on training and research in life sciences. This webinar will focus on how AlphaFold is changing or will change the teaching/train...

21 June 2022

HPC boosts mathematical models’ promises of personalised medicine

Mathematical models of the biological processes that are deregulated in diseases show a high complexity not only because of the number of genes and pathways involved, but also because of the numerous ...

15 June 2022

PRIDE database: Proteomics data submission, access and visualisation

The webinar will provide an introduction to the PRIDE database and the proteomics data submission process. This will also provide information about how to access public proteomics datasets, including ...

14 June 2022

Scope and vision of AlphaFold

AlphaFold is an AI system developed by DeepMind that predicts protein 3D structure from its amino-acid sequence. It’s been a year since the AlphaFold software and ‘AlphaFold Protein Structure Data...

9 June 2022

The PerMedCoE competency framework to guide training and career development

PerMedCoE aims at providing an efficient and sustainable infrastructure to support personalised medicine, adapting cell-level simulation methods to pre-exascale systems to translate omics data into mo...

8 June 2022

Open-access to genetic variation data at the European Variation Archive

The European Variation Archive (EVA) is an open-access database for archival and accessioning of genetic variants from any species. RS ID's are assigned to variants submitted to the EVA and this data ...

1 June 2022

Computer-assisted functional precision medicine in cancer

Biological mechanisms provide a link between anti cancer compounds and therapy responses. Insight to biological mechanisms is central for tomorrow’s clinical decision support systems and personalise...

25 May 2022

Exploring sequence alignment tools with Job Dispatcher

The Job Dispatcher framework at the EBI provides free access to several sequence analysis tools. 

11 May 2022

Selecting and evaluating preprints for Journal Club

Preprints enable researchers to rapidly share their work publicly before the formal peer review process. This webinar will introduce preprints, demonstrate how to select and evaluate preprints by usin...

4 May 2022

PDBe-KB Aggregated Views: providing biological insights into 3D structures

The Protein Data Bank in Europe - Knowledge Base (PD…,

27 April 2022

Approaches for using protein-protein interaction networks for biological discovery

It is hard to think of a biological process in which protein-protein interactions (PPIs) do not play an essential role. Thus, in collective efforts over the last two decades comprehensive sets of huma...

26 April 2022

Mathematical modelling as knowledge mapping in PhysiCell: a guided tour

Tissues are complex multiscale biological systems where cells communicate to modulate their behaviour in response to dynamical microenvironmental conditions. Small perturbations to cells—such as inj...

25 April 2022

Exploring parasite biology through their protein annotation in UniProtKB

Parasitic infections cause a major global burden in terms of human health whilst also affecting livestock and agriculture. Understanding their biology is essential to identify potential candidates for...

20 April 2022

Methods in building and analysing biological networks

Cells are complex and dynamic systems able to modify their behaviour and their morphology in response to internal or environment-induced cues. Such response is achieved thanks to enzymatic reactions a...

13 April 2022

SciELO Preprints in Europe PMC

SciELO(Scientific Electronic Library Online) Preprints are now searchable in Europe PMC, an open database which contains collections from 16 countries, predominantly in Latin America. Join us for this...

12 April 2022

Biocuration in industry

This webinar,

7 April 2022

UniProt for proteomics scientists

UniProt is a comprehensive, expert-led, publicly available database of protein sequence, function and variation information.

6 April 2022

Methods for rare-variant association analysis

Rare variants contribute to development of familial cancer.  Genes carrying rare variants may contribute to molecular mechanisms of sporadic cancers.  Historically, many of the rare variants were di...

5 April 2022

Working with sensitive data

This webinar, part of the biocuration series, will introduce the concept of sensitive data, for example, data relating to individual patients. It will also discuss how controlled data resources that ...

31 March 2022

Bringing it all together: human cohort standards, tools and applications

The CINECA webinar series continues with a presentation by Dr Melanie Courtot, from the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR).

31 March 2022

Introductory bioinformatics Q&A session: proteins and structures

This Q&A webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed

30 March 2022

Methods in genomic variant calling

Genomic variant calling entails identifying single nucleotide polymorphisms, small insertions and deletion (InDels) and larger variants (structural variants and copy-number variants) from next generat...

29 March 2022

Ontologies for biocuration

This webinar, part of the biocuration series, will introduce the concept of an ontology, a type of controlled vocabulary that encompasses relationships between entities, and will cover why ontologies ...

24 March 2022

Introductory bioinformatics Q&A session: genes and gene expression

This Q&A webinar will provide an opportunity for anyone who has completed

23 March 2022

Methods in bioimage analysis

Microscopy is a key technology driving biological discovery. Nowadays, microscopy based scientific findings must be substantiated by quantitative image analysis. The discipline concerned with such qua...

22 March 2022

Text mining for biocuration

This webinar, part of the biocuration series, will introduce the topic of text mining and discuss why text mining is used by life sciences data resources in part of their biocuration efforts. 

16 March 2022

Discovering biological information from mass spectrometry-based proteomics

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics has revolutionised the analysis of proteins by enabling quantitative analysis of thousands of proteins and their properties, including post-translational modificatio...

15 March 2022

Programming skills in biocuration

This webinar will be the first of

9 March 2022

Methods for exploring newly-annotated species in Ensembl Rapid Release

Newly sequenced genomes, including those produced by the Darwin Tree of Life project, are all added to Ensembl Rapid Release. These genomes have minimal annotation, with genes mapped onto the genome, ...

3 March 2022

Identifying tumor cells at the single cell level through machine learning

Tumours are highly complex tissues composed of cancerous cells, surrounded by a heterogeneous cellular microenvironment. A tumor’s response to treatments is governed by an interaction of the cancer ...

2 March 2022

Exploring Gene Ontology, GO annotations, tools and resources

The Gene Ontology (GO) resource is the world's most comprehensive source of information about the function of gene products (proteins and non-coding RNAs).

9 February 2022

Exploring genotype-phenotype data using the GWAS Catalog

The GWAS Catalog is the primary resource of genotype-phenotype associations identified through genome-wide association studies. GWAS Catalog data are publicly available in a consistent, searchable,...

3 February 2022

Automated annotation in UniProt

UniProt is a high quality, comprehensive protein resource in which the core activity is the expert review and annotation of proteins where the function has been experimentally investigated. At the sam...

2 February 2022

MetaboLights: Home for metabolomics experiments and derived information

MetaboLights is a database for metabolomics experiments and derived information. The database is cross-species, cross-technique and covers metabolite structures and their reference spectra as well as ...

2 February 2022

MetaboLights: the home for metabolomics experiments and derived information

MetaboLights is a database for metabolomics experiments and derived information. The database is cross-species, cross-technique and covers metabolite structures and their reference spectra as well as ...

26 January 2022

Guide to exploring genes and genomes with Ensembl

This webinar will provide a brief overview to the Ensembl browser and demonstrate how you can access information about genes or genomes of your interest. We will also showcase the data types and tools...

20 January 2022

Logic modelling of signalling networks – CellNOpt and CARNIVAL

Reconstruction of signaling networks has been widely utilised in the past, for example to understand aberrations in diseased cells, or to figure out mechanism of drug actions. With the development of ...

20 January 2022

Uncovering protein function with UniProt

This webinar will discuss what functional information is available in UniProt and where that information comes from. It will also describe how the information is added to the resource and how to ...

14 December 2021

Biomedicine, supercomputers and simulations: in silico experiments and its applications in cancer research

Computational simulations of cellular processes (e.g. metabolism, gene expression, signal transduction) are critical tools to formulate mechanistic explanations that facilitate the interpretation of e...

1 December 2021

The BioImage Archive: Home for life sciences microscopy data

The BioImage Archive is EMBL-EBI’s open access image archive, accepting molecular biology imaging data associated with peer-reviewed publications. This webinar will provide an introduction to the a...

24 November 2021

Analysing publications and funding with the Europe PMC REST API

Europe PMC is a database of life science publications and preprints. Articles in Europe PMC are enriched with additional resources, such as author, funding and affiliation information, citations and l...

18 November 2021

Introduction to qualitative modelling with MaBoSS

Boolean modelling uses a simple representation of biological entities as either active or inactive, and describes their relations with logical formulas. MaBoSS extends Boolean modelling by adding a ...

10 November 2021

A guide to accessing ChEMBL and UniChem through an API

ChEMBL is a database of bioactivity data that links drug-like compounds to their biological targets. UniChem is a database that produces cross-references between chemical structure identifiers from d...

3 November 2021

Getting gene and genome data programmatically: Ensembl REST API

This webinar will provide a brief introduction to what the Ensembl REST API is, the types of data available and how to get started with using it.

29 October 2021

Open access: Let's talk about open access, open data and open software

Join us for the final webinar of the series focusing on open access and open science. At this webinar, on the last day of Open Access Week 2021, we will be joined by four speakers from across EMBL who...

28 October 2021

A walk through the new UniProt website

This webinar will provide an interactive introduction to the new and improved UniProt website.  Developed with our user community in mind, the new website aims to allow users to access all data prov...

27 October 2021

Open access: publications and preprints

Continuing our series on open access, in this webinar we will discuss the role of EMBL in making science open. We will introduce Europe PMC - an open, free database of life science publications and pr...

21 October 2021

Analysis of huge metabolic models with COBREXA.jl

COBREXA.jl is a new software package to enable the analysis and simulation of large metabolic models by taking advantages of modern HPC infrastructure. Mainly, it advanced the scalability of c...

20 October 2021

Open access: Finding and accessing open data

Our open access webinar series continues with an introduction to finding and accessing open data. The webinar will begin with an overview of the kind of open access data available from EMBL-EBI and a ...

14 October 2021

Sight, vision and UniProt proteins

Join us on World Sight Day to find out about our ongoing curation project at UniProt to annotate proteins involved in eye development and disease. Globally around 2.2 billion people have a near or di...

13 October 2021

Open access: Why build open source software and how to do it successfully

Continuing our series of webinars on the topic of open access, during this webinar we will define what open software is, discuss motivations and challenges of producing open code and software, as well...

6 October 2021

Open access: Data sharing and submission

This webinar will be the first of our series of webinars on the topic of open access. In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of sharing research data and illustrate how EMBL-EBI provides som...

23 September 2021

The future of preprint peer review

Public review of preprints is rapidly gaining momentum, with expert reviews, commentary and recommendations shared on various preprint platforms. In this webinar we look at the current state of prepri...

22 September 2021

Retrieving biological data from EMBL-EBI resources using Dbfetch

Dbfetch provides a single point of access to retrieve biological data entries from various databases at EMBL-EBI. This webinar will provide a brief overview of the Dbfetch service and illustrate va...

16 September 2021

Exascale-ready cell-level simulations for European Personalised Medicine

Personalised Medicine (PerMed) opens unexplored frontiers to treat diseases at the individual level combining clinical and omics information. However, the performances of the current simulation softwa...

15 September 2021

Getting started with the Open Targets Platform GraphQL API

The Open Targets Platform is a comprehensive research tool that supports systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drug targets.‌ By integrating publicly available datase...

8 September 2021

How to interpret AlphaFold structures

This webinar will introduce AlphaFold system for prediction and interpretation of protein structures. This webinar is designed for experimental biologists who wish to understand the strengths and limi...

7 July 2021

A guide to EBI Search

This webinar will introduce the EBI Search service. EBI Search is a text search engine that provides easy and uniform access to the biological data resources hosted at EMBL-EBI. It provides up-to-date...

30 June 2021

A guide to analysing binding sites in protein structures

This webinar gives an introduction to the information required to effectively interpret ligand binding sites in protein structures. It will highlight tools available at the Protein Data Bank in Europe...

23 June 2021

A guide to proteomics data analysis using UniProt and InterPro

This webinar will give a brief introduction to the UniProt and InterPro websites and highlight resources available that proteomic scientists or other users with protein datasets may find useful to ana...

21 June 2021

Preprints 101 for authors

Joint webinar with ASAPbio, Sumeet Pal Singh and Europe PMC Preprints enable researchers to rapidly share their work publicly before the formal peer review process. In this webinar you will learn mor...

16 June 2021

A guide to the maintenance of life science data by biocurators

The aim of this webinar is to introduce you to the principles of how biological data is archived, curated, maintained and updated by expert biocurators and how you can contribute.

9 June 2021

A guide to sequence similarity search for biomolecular sequences

This webinar aims to provide an introduction to basic concepts in sequence similarity search with a focus on the similarity search tools and databases provided by EMBL-EBI. In this webinar, we will ...

2 June 2021

A guide to multiomics pathway analysis

In this webinar we will discuss how to perform comparative multi-omics pathway analyses using the ReactomeGSA pathway analysis system. We will be comparing independent studies that use different 'omic...

26 May 2021

A guide to molecular interactions

During this webinar, we will give you an introduction to molecular interactions and how to find these through the molecular interaction database IntAct. We will show you examples of how you can search...

25 May 2021

PsyArXiv preprints in Europe PMC

Psychological sciences preprints from PsyArXiv are now searchable in Europe PMC, an open database of life sciences literature. Join us for this live demo to learn how to find PsyArXiv preprints in Eur...

19 May 2021

A guide to identifying and prioritising drug targets with the Open Targets Platform

The Open Targets Platform - https://platform.opentargets.org/ - is a comprehensive research tool that supports systematic identification and prioritisation of potential therapeutic drug targets.‌ ...

12 May 2021

A guide to exploring drug-like compounds and their biological targets using ChEMBL

ChEMBL is a widely-used database of bioactivity data that links drug-like compounds to their biological targets and has applications in drug discovery. This webinar will provide an overview of the ChE...

6 May 2021

Contributing to the UniProt Knowledgebase: how you can help

This webinar will present how the research community can contribute both literature references and annotation to the UniProt database of protein sequence and function (www.uniprot.org). First, we wi...

5 May 2021

A guide to organising data associated to a publication using BioStudies

The goal of the BioStudies database is to facilitate transparency and reproducibility of research by aggregating all the outputs of a study (a ‘data package’) in a single place. A data package may...

22 April 2021

UniProtKB: Increasing our understanding of neurodegenerative disorders through data curation

This webinar will give an overview on how molecular data of proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases is provided in UniProtKB, including information on molecular protein function, protein-p...

21 April 2021

A guide to RNA families

Rfam is a database of RNA families that currently contains almost 4,000 families. Together with the Infernal software, Rfam is commonly used to annotate non-coding RNAs in newly sequenced genomes. In...

15 April 2021

Ethics/ELSI considerations – From FAIR to fair data sharing

The FAIR principles – standing for Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability – have become the guiding principles for the wider sharing of research data in the life sciences. W...

14 April 2021

A guide to exploring genes and genomes with Ensembl

Ensembl is a genome browser that provides a single point access to annotated gene and genomes. This webinar will provide a brief overview to the Ensembl browser and demonstrate how you can access info...

31 March 2021

Submitting your genome wide association study data to the GWAS Catalog

The GWAS Catalog is a comprehensive and highly accessed resource for GWAS data, including full summary statistics. We encourage authors to submit their data to us, to make them accessible and reu...

25 March 2021

Integrating knowledge of proteins and small molecules with UniProtKB

A complete understanding of biological systems requires integration of knowledge of the regulation and function of small molecule metabolites – the metabolome – with that of genes, transcripts, an...

24 March 2021

Mol*: Improved molecular visualisation at PDBe

This webinar will focus on the use of the online molecular visualisation tool, Mol* at PDBe. We will show basic usage, observation of electron density maps and EM volumes, interrogation of ligand stru...

18 March 2021

How to make training FAIR

There is a wealth of training content developed and delivered across the globe each year, there will be many similar sessions on similar topics all delivered to similar audiences. At the same time, th...

17 March 2021

BioSamples: a FAIR sample metadata archive

BioSamples is the EMBL-EBI archive which records and supplies metadata about biological samples and connects sample records across EBI databases to the corresponding experimental data. BioSamples aims...

10 March 2021

Introduction to exploring genome-phenome data with EGA

European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) is a permanent repository for all types of potentially identifiable genetic and phenotypic data from biomedical research projects. This webinar aims to cover a ...

4 March 2021

Practically FAIR

This webinar will focus on practical applications of the FAIR data principles, particularly in the context of clinical bioinformatics. We will highlight several example projects that have put the FAIR...

3 March 2021

Annotating your own variation data with the Ensembl Variant Effect Predictor (VEP)

The Ensembl VEP is a powerful tool that allows you to input a list of genetic variants and determines which genes are affected and how. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to use the online VEP tool, ...

10 February 2021

Exploring non‐coding RNAs in RNAcentral

RNAcentral is a database of non-coding RNA sequences that provides a unified view of >40 specialised databases. This webinar will give an overview of the data found in RNAcentral as well as the RNA...

27 January 2021

Preprints discovery 101: Tips & tricks for authors

Preprints enable researchers to rapidly share their work publicly before the formal peer review process. This webinar will demonstrate how to incorporate preprints in your literature search routine by...

20 January 2021

An introduction to EMBL-EBI resources

The EMBL-EBI is the home of the world's most comprehensive range of freely available molecular databases and resources. Our resources help researchers share and analyse data and perform complex querie...

2 December 2020

Introduction to the Complex Portal

This webinar will introduce the Complex Portal, an encyclopaedic database for information on macromolecular complexes. In this webinar we will explain the coverage and curation priorities of the Comp...

26 November 2020

Sequence analysis tools in UniProt: BLAST and Align

BLAST and multiple sequence alignments are essential methods commonly used to find and compare protein or nucleotide sequences. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how you can access and run these se...

25 November 2020

Discovering scientific evidence using Europe PMC SciLite annotation

For readers of life sciences journal articles, annotations make it easier to scan an article and get a quick overview, find key concepts, and discover evidence, such as gene disease associations or m...

18 November 2020

MGnify API: accessing microbiome data computationally

This webinar will provide an overview of the MGnify API. MGnify offers an automated pipeline for the analysis and archiving of microbiome data to help determine the taxonomic diversity and functional ...

12 November 2020

Understanding proteomes

A proteome is the set of proteins thought to be expressed by an organism. Through the Proteomes portal, UniProt provides a large collection of proteomes for organisms whose genomes have been sequenced...

11 November 2020

MGnify today: analysing microbiome data

This webinar will describe how MGnify can assist you in your microbiome research by providing a broad overview of resources available in MGnify. MGnify offers an automated pipeline for the analysis a...

4 November 2020

Variant submission and data access at the European Variation Archive

This webinar will cover how to access data using the EVA UI/API and the methodology of variant data submission to the EVA, specifically focusing on data transformation and formats. With a new version ...

3 November 2020

Europe PMC: Programmatic access

Europe PMC is an open repository, providing access to worldwide biomedical literature, including articles, preprints, books, patents, and clinical guidelines. This webinar will introduce the Europe PM...

29 October 2020

Introducing the new UniProt Disease Portal

This webinar will provide an interactive introduction to the new UniProt Disease Portal: a single centralised resource of UniProt disease-centric information which has been developed with the help of ...

28 October 2020

The PRIDE database: storing, disseminating and integrating proteomics data in the public domain

This webinar will provide an introduction to proteomics approaches and the PRIDE database, followed by more detailed examples of PRIDE public data re-use, including “big data” approaches.

23 October 2020

Open with purpose: How and why to make your data open

As part of EMBL-EBI’s celebration of Open Access week, this special one-off webinar will give you insight into the benefits of open access data, alongside guidance and tips on managing your data. F...

21 October 2020

Multiomics comparative pathway analysis with ReactomeGSA

The webinar will demonstrate how to perform multiomics comparative pathway analyses using ReactomeGSA. This will cover the web interface and R package. We will demonstrate how to use ReactomeGSA to ...

20 October 2020

Data visualisation at PDBe

This webinar will introduce some of the data visualisations available from PDBe, how to add these to your own website and how to customise them for your own requirements. There will also be specific c...

13 October 2020

PDBe tools in GitHub

This webinar will show you how to access some of the software packages created at PDBe, used to generate the data displayed on our website. This will include a walkthrough of our github repositories, ...

7 October 2020

The Ensembl Rapid Release genome browser

This webinar will introduce you to the data available in the Ensembl Rapid Release site, a new, lightweight genome browser designed to allow quick release of the latest genome annotation for a large n...

6 October 2020

Using the PDBe graph API

This webinar will introduce the PDBe graph API, which is generated from the PDBe graph database and contains an even richer level of data than our standard API. We will highlight how this API supports...

30 September 2020

Reproducibility in Systems Biology Modelling: BioModels' role

This webinar, will give an overview of BioModels, a popular repository of curated systems biology models. It will also provide a brief introduction to BioModels Parameters, a sub-resource within Bi...

29 September 2020

Creating complex PDBe API queries

This webinar will demonstrate how to create more complex queries by combining the PDBe search API with numerous other calls. By introducing specific case studies, we will highlight the scope of PDBe p...

23 September 2020

Investigating genotype-phenotype data using the GWAS Catalog

This webinar will include a brief introduction to the GWAS Catalog, followed by hands-on demonstrations and exercises covering different methods for accessing GWAS Catalog data, focusing on the most c...

22 September 2020

Searching with the PDBe API

This webinar will introduce the PDBe search API, a powerful Solr-based query system that underlies the PDBe search pages. The breadth of search options will be highlighted, along with specific case st...

16 September 2020

The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium (IMPC): a large-scale functional catalogue of mammalian genes

The IMPC is an international research infrastructure, comprised by 21 of the leading mouse genetics centres worldwide, that is systematically identifying the function of every protein-coding gene i...

15 September 2020

Introduction to PDBe programmatic access

This webinar will give an introduction to programmatic access at PDBe, highlighting the type of data that is available and how this can be utilised.  This webinar is part of a 6-part PDBe API webin...

8 September 2020

EurOPDX IT tools to support cancer research with patient-derived xenograft models

The new EurOPDX Research Infrastructure (RI), funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme, aims to improve cancer drug development success rates through the enablement of collaborative cance...

24 June 2020

InterProScan

This webinar is about InterProScan, the underlying software application that scans both protein and nucleic acid sequences against InterPro's predictive models, which are provided by the InterPro’...

10 June 2020

Exploring metabolite metabolism using the Enzyme Portal

This webinar will provide a practical overview of how to use the Enzyme Portal to find enzyme-related information about metabolites. The Enzyme Portal is a freely available resource to find and explor...

27 May 2020

PDBe Graph Database: A Neo4J-driven integrative knowledge graph for structural data

This webinar will introduce the concepts of a graph database and describe how we used a graph-approach for integrating the structural data of the Protein Data Bank. The presented PDBe knowledge graph ...

20 May 2020

Accessing InterPro programmatically

This is the third and last part of a webinar series on InterPro which is held between May 6th 2020 and May 20th 2020. InterPro is a database that helps users to understand the possible functions of p...

19 May 2020

Finding the data behind research articles with Europe PMC

This webinar will explain how to use Europe PMC to find relevant articles in your research field and locate the linked data containing facts and evidence to support your hypothesis. Europe PMC is an...

14 May 2020

CABANA: Addressing UN Sustainable Goals in Latin America Through Data-driven Biology Symposium

13 May 2020

Using the InterPro website in your research

This is the second part of a webinar series on InterPro which is held between May 6th 2020 and May 20th 2020. InterPro is a database that helps users to understand the possible functions of proteins ...

6 May 2020

Contributing to the UniProt Knowledgebase: how you can help

The webinar will present how the research community can contribute both literature references and annotation to the UniProt database of protein sequence and function. We will provide an overview on ...

6 May 2020

Understanding InterPro families, domains and functions

This is the first part of a webinar series on InterPro which is held between 6 May - 20 May 2020. InterPro is a database that helps users to understand the possible functions of proteins sequence by...

22 April 2020

UniProtKB: Increasing our understanding of neurodegenerative disorders through data curation

The webinar will give an overview on our ongoing curation efforts at the Universal Protein database UniProtKB on proteins involved in neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Park...

8 April 2020

Using Europe PMC for effective literature research

This webinar will explain how to find and access relevant scientific literature and show how you can follow the latest developments in your scientific field. It will cover searches by topic and autho...

2 April 2020

UniProt COVID-19 website

The new UniProt portal for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and receptor protein entries provides the latest available pre-release UniProtKB data for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and other entries relating...

1 April 2020

Visualising your own data in the Ensembl genome browser

The Ensembl project (www.ensembl.org) offers integrated genome, variation, gene regulation and comparative genomics data of mainly vertebrate genomes on an open access web browser platform. This webin...

11 March 2020

Exploring ChEMBL Data with the new ChEMBL Interface

ChEMBL is a manually curated open database of bioactivity data of molecules with drug-like properties. It enables users to identify data that relates chemical structural information to biological func...

12 February 2020

eQTL Catalogue: a compendium of uniformly processed human expression and splicing QTLs

The eQTL Catalogue is a new project aimed at accelerating the functional interpretation of human GWAS studies and the annotation of common variants through a comprehensive collection of gene expressio...

5 February 2020

Searching and browsing scientific publications with the new Europe PMC

Literature search is an essential and routine task in scientific research. Following the release of the new Europe PMC website, this webinar will show you the new full-text searching and browsing fe...

13 December 2019

EMBL Insight Lecture: Ageing and diseases – what is the link?

11 December 2019

Single cell RNA-seq analysis using a Galaxy interface

In this webinar, we will look at a Galaxy interface for single cell analysis. Specifically, we will run Scanpy (which would otherwise require Python programming skills) to analyse a Drop-seq dataset l...

27 November 2019

PDBe-KB Aggregated Views: Presenting PDB data in a different context

Our understanding of biological function can be advanced by the knowledge of biomolecular structures. Yet, it requires compiling data from individual entries in the Protein Data Bank (PDB), where each...

22 November 2019

Dev Day 2019

21 November 2019

Submitting metagenomic data to ENA

In order to have your metagenomic data analysed by MGnify your sequence data has to be captured by the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA). ENA is a comprehensive database of nucleotide sequences, prov...

13 November 2019

Life cell by cell: Introduction to Single Cell Expression Atlas

Explore gene expression profiles across various species and conditions at single cell resolution. Single Cell Expression Atlas (SCEA) is an open resource committed to making the information from sing...

23 October 2019

EurOPDX Data Portal: a repository of patient-derived xenograft models

The new EurOPDX Research Infrastructure (RI), funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 programme, aims to improve cancer drug development success rates through the enablement of collaborative cancer...

16 October 2019

Explore the known protein space through UniProt Archive and Clusters

UniProt Archive (UniParc) is the most comprehensive, non-redundant protein sequence database available. Its protein sequences are retrieved from predominant, publicly accessible resources. To avoid re...

2 October 2019

Integrating publications into bioinformatics analysis

Research literature contains a wealth of information that can be extracted at scale using text-mining technologies. To make text-mining data available to a wider group of researchers, the publication...

18 September 2019

Ensembl gene annotation for clinical genomics

Ensembl provides the GENCODE gene annotation that is used by major sequencing projects, such as gnomAD, GTEx and ENCODE. In this webinar you will learn about how the GENCODE genes are annotated and ho...

11 September 2019

Genome3D annotations in InterPro

Genome3D provides consensus structural annotations and 3D models for sequences from ten model organisms, including human. These data are generated by several UK-based resources that together form the ...

4 September 2019

Variant submission and accessioning at the European Variation Archive

The European Variation Archive (EVA) is a primary open repository for archiving, accessioning, and distributing genome variation including single nucleotide variants, short insertions and deletions ...

17 July 2019

BioStudies database: aggregating all outputs of a life sciences study

The goal of the BioStudies database is to facilitate transparency and reproducibility of research by aggregating all the outputs of a study (a ‘data package’) in a single place. A data package con...

10 July 2019

Annotate your proteins with the UniProt Functional Annotation system UniFire

UniProt is a high quality, comprehensive protein resource. Next to expert curation, one of the core activities at UniProt is to develop computational methods for the functional annotation of protein s...

9 July 2019

How to share text mining results in biology

Though text mining becomes more widespread in biology, an average researcher can rarely use it to their advantage. In this webinar Europe PMC presents a tool to easily share annotated biological ent...

26 June 2019

Explore gene expression across species with Expression Atlas

Expression Atlas is an open resource that incorporates high quality gene expression data from ArrayExpress as well as other data archives and sources. Our mission is to provide the scientific communit...

12 June 2019

Genomic features that regulate gene expression, with Ensembl

Gene expression is controlled by a complicated network of transcription factors and repressors, interacting with genomic features such as promoters and enhancers, dependant on epigenetic marks at thos...

29 May 2019

Enzyme Portal

Enzyme Portal is a freely available resource to find and explore enzyme-related information. It integrates relevant enzyme data for a wide range of species from various resources such as UniProt, PDB...

29 May 2019

Equals, right? Exploring whether medical research benefits everyone equally

14 May 2019

UniProt and Alzheimer's Disease: Linking molecular defects to disease phenotype

This webinar will cover ongoing curation project at UniProt on proteins involved in Alzheimer's Disease. We have identified more than 300 proteins, by text mining and from input by experts in the fie...

1 May 2019

Enzymes in UniProt

This webinar will provide a practical overview of the type of information the protein database UniProt offers for enzymes and how to access it. We will introduce the new enhanced enzyme annotation bas...

25 April 2019

Workshop on Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology

3 April 2019

European Nucleotide Archive: An introduction

The European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) provides a comprehensive record of the world's nucleotide sequencing information, covering raw sequencing data, sequence assembly information and functional annot...

20 March 2019

An introduction to WormBase ParaSite resources

WormBase ParaSite is a sub-portal of the main WormBase website and is designed for researchers working on parasitic worm genomics. It provides genome sequence, genome browsers, semi-automatic annotat...

20 February 2019

Wheat resources in Ensembl Plants

The wheat genome is large, complicated and arguably the most important genome of all in terms of food security. In this webinar, join Ensembl Plants to learn more about where the latest IWGSC genom...