From a farm in the north of England to the frontiers of bioinformatics, our Group Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a career building the data foundations of modern biology:
βAI is showing how vital data curation really is.β
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
π₯οΈπ§¬
EMBL-EBI Team Leader Sandra Orchard reflects on a life in protein science, UniProt data curation, and championing open data standards.
We identified many differentially expressed genes and found differences in gene ontology processes between groups. Genes involved in cell cycle regulation were enriched in miniature taxa, while genes associated with growth factors and tissue development were enriched in large-bodied gobies.
EMBL-EBI
πJanuary #GeneOntology release is here! Now covering 1.7M bioentities with 9.4M annotations across 5,500+ taxaβ¨
π Get the data:
π current.geneontology.org
π doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Details: community.alliancegenome.org/t/8613 via @alliancegenome.bsky.social
#Bioinformatics #OpenScience
If you have more time and are looking for more of a foundational introduction to genAI (with lots of bio examples, and no maths) we are running a training series for members of the @geneontology.bsky.social consortium.
Emily Troyer
Start 2026 off fresh! The January 2026 GO Release (2026-01-23/) is now available. current.geneontology.org release.geneontology.org Gene Ontology Data Archive 10.5281/zenodo.18422732 38,739 GO te...
Goals: Β Equip curators with general purpose AI skills and literacy, usable in a variety of different contexts, and to unblock paths to continued exploration.Β Β By the end of training curators will b...
Only a week until the next Alliance webinar, this month it will be on MicroPublications. Make sure you're registered now!
Lots of #GeneOntology in this work as well! GO analysis showed enrichment of upregulated genes in pheromone signaling, cell wall biogenesis, cell shape regulation; downregulated genes associated with cell cycle progression, chromatin remodeling, histone gene expression, nucleosome organization
π° The Easter bunny delivered early! The March 2026 Gene Ontology release is here with 38,560 GO terms, 8.8M annotations across 5,557 species. Your functional genomics just got a spring upgrade!
π current.geneontology.org
π community.alliancegenome.org/t/8648
#GeneOntology #Bioinformatics #Genomics
βοΈ Gene Ontology Winter Break βοΈ
Our resources will remain fully accessible through the holiday season: release.geneontology.org. Support requests will be addressed after we return on January 5th.
Wishing our wonderful community a restful season and a well-annotated 2026! π§¬β¨
