We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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Amos was not only a giant of bioinformatics and biocuration, but one of the nicest people I've met in academia. His support and advice were invaluable when we were establishing @bgee.org, and I will always remember how warmly he welcomed us to @sib.swiss when I arrived in Switzerland 20 years ago.
Displacement-Optimized Tanglegrams for Trees and Networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690634v1
J. Craig Venter, genomics pioneer and founder of JCVI and Diploid Genomics, Inc., dies at 79 www.jcvi.org/media-center...
Our trilogy of orthology publications is online!
Review on Hierarchical Orthologous Groups doi.org/10.1007/s00239-025-10277-1
OrthoXML-Tools doi.org/10.1007/s00239-025-10271-7
A great community effort on Quest for Orthologs in the era of Data Deluge and AI doi.org/10.1007/s00239-025-10272-6
It’s #WorldBookDay!
This photo shows the human genome printed in a book.
Now imagine all the data stored at EMBL-EBI. Our archives hold life science data equivalent to ~480 billion books.
Stack those books and they’d reach from Earth to the Moon and back several times.
Blog post on "The AI Rewrite Dilemma": lh3.github.io/2026/04/17/t...
Great work by Nicola De Maio and Nick Goldman - not just scaleable to "pandemic scale" trees but - if I have got this right - arguably more valid than traditional column based bootstrap in the context of very tight evolution.
Can an AI tool help us better understand the origins of cancer?
Researchers from EMBL's Korbel Group have developed a new AI method – MAGIC – which, through a game of molecular laser tag, is shedding light on how chromosomal abnormalities form in cells.
www.embl.org/news/science...
Yes - isometric scaling as a way to understand the benefits and costs of being small versus large. Haldane's Harpers article from 1926 is an amazing example of popular science writing.
