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

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EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Jul 31
We're so excited to see the lineup of incredible science in the 2027 courses and conferences poster.

We can't wait to welcome you to Hinxton, Heidelberg, or virtually at an event with us and @events.embl.org next year.

Which event are you most interested in? Let us know in the comments!

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events.embl.org EMBL Events @events.embl.org · Jul 31
Get your calendars, because the new 2027 EMBL Annual Poster has arrived: s.embl.org/2027-poster

Whether you'd like to enhance your skills in a practical course or engage with the latest research at one of our conferences, we've got you covered. See you at EMBL in 2027! 🙌

#LifeSciences #EMBL
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Our modular virtual training course 'Byte-sized green computing' is starting soon! 2 November will see Joseph G. Wallwork deliver 'Green continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD)', and Andy Turner will deliver 'Metrics for monitoring software emissions efficiency' on 9 November.

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EMBL-EBI Training. Byte-sized green computing. 2 - 30 November 2026. Virtual Training. EMBL-EBI logo. EMBL-EBI Training. Green continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD). 2 November 2026. 14:00 - 15:30 UK time. Joseph G Wallwork, University of Cambridge. EMBL-EBI Training. Metrics for monitoring software emissions efficiency. 9 November 2026. 13:00 - 14:30 UK time. Andy Turner, The University of Edinburgh.
October 28, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Explore how different types of protein functional and structural data can be accessed and connected across the @ebi.embl.org resources: UniProt, EMDB, Protein Data Bank in Europe, and the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in our 11 Nov webinar.

Register for free: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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EMBL-EBI Training. Exploring proteins in infection biology with EMBL-EBI resources. 11 November 2026. 14:30 - 15:30 UK time. Speakers Stephanie Lo, Protein Function Content Leader, EMBL-EBI. And Kyle Morris, EMDB Team Leader at EMBL-EBI. Speaker Marcelo Querino, Data access and delivery lead at EMBL-EBI. Registration is free but required for each webinar in the series you would like to attend. www.ebi.ac.uk/training
October 26, 2026 at 9:19 AM
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Thank you so much to everyone who joined us online at this week's virtual training course dedicated to structural bioinformatics!

The course will return in 2027. Register your interest and be the first to hear when the course opens for applications: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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October 23, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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We've just updated our 2027 EMBL Annual Poster with even more events 🧪

Have a look and tell us which course or conference you're excited to join:
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October 22, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Making sense of metagenomics data with MGnify: data retrieval, analysis, and biological insights in our next webinar series, which will run from 5 November – 16 December 2026.

The series will begin with an introduction to the MGnify data resource.

Register for free: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
October 22, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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Join us on 6 November 2026 for 'Designing sustainable systems: sustainability assessment of bio-based products and processes'; the next webinar in our blue bioeconomy series.

Places at this webinar are free: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Webinar from EMBL-EBI Training. Designing sustainable systems: sustainability assessment of bio-based products and processes. 6 November 2026. 11:00 - 12:30 UK time. Speakers: Pablo Domínguez de María, Founder, Sustainable Momentum, SL and Sara Lago, Sustainability and LCA Consultant, Contactica. Speaker: Pia Steinrücken, Senior Reseacher, NORCE. Registration is free but essential to secure your place at this webinar. www.ebi.ac.uk/training
October 21, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Join us on 4 November as we explore the state-of-the-art in computational and structure-based vaccine design. Registration is free but essential: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

This event is part of the webinar series “Integrating structural biology and bioinformatics to study infection”.

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EMBL-EBI Training. Strategies for computational vaccine design from prefusion stabilisation to epitope focussing. 4 November 2026. 14:30 - 15:30 UK time. Clara Schoeder. University of Leipzig.
October 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Join @bluetools-project.eu, @blueremediomics.bsky.social, and us on 30 October for 'High-throughput microbial discovery: interfacing droplet microfluidics with metagenomics'.

Registration is free but essential to secure your place for this webinar: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Webinar from EMBL-EBI Training. High-throughput microbial discovery: interfacing droplet microfluidics with metagenomics. 30 October 2026. 11:00 – 12:30 ( GMT ). Speakers: Florian Hollfelder, Principal Investigator, University of Cambridge and Gabrielle Potocki-Veronese, Research Director at INRAE. Speaker: Liisa van Vliet, Post doc student, University of Cambridge. Registration is free but essential to secure your place at this webinar. www.ebi.ac.uk/training
October 16, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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This webinar presents research focused on perturbomes employed by prokaryotic organisms to survive and adapt to diverse stress conditions.

Registration is free but essential. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
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From transcriptomics to structural modelling with AlphaFold: analysis of the central response to stress in bacteria using machine learning and structural bioinformatics. 29 October 2026. 15:00 - 16:00 UK time. Jose Molina Mora. University of Costa Rica.
October 15, 2026 at 10:57 AM
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Good AI models require lots of high-quality training data.

Jo McEntyre, Interim Director of EMBL-EBI, highlights how open, expert-curated data is driving the next generation of life sciences: from AlphaFold to AI-assisted data curation.
October 15, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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'Byte-sized green computing' is our free virtual training course, running across four sessions between 2–30 November 2026.

Registration is free but limited, and places will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
October 14, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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In this webinar, we will present new technologies developed at EMBL Grenoble enabling fully automated, large-scale fragment and ligand screening and their application to the study and validation of key targets with strong therapeutic potential in infection biology.
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EMBL-EBI Training. Automated X-ray fragment and ligand screening for therapeutic discovery in infection biology. 28 October 2026. 14:30 - 15:30 UK time. José Márquez. EMBL Grenoble.
October 12, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Thank you to all of our delegates and trainers involved in this week's @embo.org Practical Course.

Interested in future training courses with EMBL-EBI Training? View our 2027 programme and find an event that suits you: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/liv...

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A group of people stand and wave to camera. They are stood in a conference space at EMBL-EBI. The words below them say the following: EMBO Practical Course. Causality in biomedicine: going beyond associations. 4 – 9 October 2026 | EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute. Funded by EMBO for excellence in the life sciences. The EMBO and EMBL-EBI logos are shown.
October 9, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Our sustainable blue bioeconomy webinar series continues with 'Ocean function and value: marine ecosystem mapping and services' on 23 October 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Image credit: Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBI using AdobeStock images.

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Webinar at EMBL-EBI Training. Ocean function and value: marine ecosystem mapping and services. 23 October 2026. 11:00 – 12:30 ( BST ). Speakers: Abbe Brown, Professor in Intellectual Property, University of Aberdeen. And Samuel Chaffron, Researcher at CNRS. Speaker: Paula Huber, Assistant Researcher at CONICET. Registration is free but essential to secure your place at this webinar. www.ebi.ac.uk/training.
October 7, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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The @uniprotkb.bsky.social webinar series continues on 15 October with 'Advanced search and protein analysis tools in UniProt'. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Registration is free but essential to secure your place. Speakers: Antonia Lock and Pedro Raposo at @ebi.embl.org
Webinar at EMBL-EBI. Advanced search and protein analysis tools in UniProt. 15 October 2026. 15:00 – 16:00 UK time. Speakers: Antonia Lock, Senior Database Curator, EMBL-EBI. And Pedro Raposo, Senior Curator/Bioinformatician, EMBL-EBI.
October 6, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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Join our webinar on 21 October to learn about the methods of in situ cryo electron tomography (cryoET) and how they can be applied to specifically look at host-pathogen interactions inside the host cell with a focus on apicomplexan parasites and gram-negative bacteria. www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...
EMBL-EBI Training. Using in situ cryoET to investigate intracellular host- pathogen interactions. 21 October 2026. 14:30-15:30 UK time. Leonie Anton. University of Bern (currently). Joining EMBL in 2027.
October 5, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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Have you considered the environmental impacts of your scientific computing? Join our free webinar on 12 October 2026 as we discuss the importance of our digital footprint: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Speakers: Anica Araneta and @loiclnlg.bsky.social Lannelongue | University of Cambridge

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Webinar at EMBL-EBI. The environmental impacts of scientific computing. 12 October 2026. 12-1pm UK time. Speakers: Anica Araneta and Loic Lannelongue. University of Cambridge.
October 2, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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'Harnessing enzymatic functions: comparison of activity-based and sequence-based approaches' is the next webinar in our blue bioeconomy series.

Registration for the free webinar on 16 October: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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Harnessing enzymatic functions: comparison of activity-based and sequence-based approaches. 16 October 2026. 11:00 – 12:30 UK time. Speakers: Christian Atallah, EMBL-EBI and Jorge Díaz-Rullo, Centro de Biología Molecular Severo Ochoa, CSIC. Speakers: Christine Orengo, UCL, and Mercedes Sánchez Costa, Centro de Astrobiología.
October 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM
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Nuestro socio Albert Ros (@isglobal.org) participa el 7 de octubre en un webinar de @ebi.embl.org sobre el trabajo con AlphaFold para encontrar nuevos componentes contra el #Chagas, y cómo la inteligencia artificial está transformando la investigación en salud

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training.ebi.embl.org EMBL-EBI Training @training.ebi.embl.org · Sep 23
Our AlphaFold use cases webinar series begins on 7 October. Join us to explore the use of AlphaFold-predicted protein structures for drug discovery against Chagas disease.

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

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Using AlphaFoldprotein modelsfor structure-based virtual screening of chemical libraries. 7 October 2026. 10:00-11:00 UK time. Albert Ros-Lucas. Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
October 1, 2026 at 5:40 AM
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Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python 2027 is now open for applications: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Our virtual course covers the analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data using Python and command-line tools. Apply by 10 January 2027.

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Virtual course at EMBL-EBI. Single-cell RNA-seq analysis with Python. 12 - 16 April 2027. Virtual. EMBL-EBI.
September 30, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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In this webinar, we will consider the strategies that parasites deploy to evade immune detection, including antigenic variation as well as surface proteins which suppress immune cells and immune effectors, and discuss the approaches used to study those mechanisms: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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EMBL-EBI Training. How do parasites evade immune clearance? A structural perspective. 14 October 2026. 14:30-15:30 UK time. Matt Higgins. University of Oxford.
September 28, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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'Reconstructing ocean life: metagenome-assembled genomes in marine research', the webinar, will run on 9 October 2026 from 11:00 – 12:30 UK time: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

Registration is free but essential.

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Webinar by EMBL-EBI Training. Reconstructing ocean life: metagenome-assembled genomes in marine research. 9 October 2026. 11:00 – 12:30 ( BST ). Speakers: Samuel Miravet-Verde, ETH Zürich and Ekaterina Sakharova, EMBL-EBI. Speaker: Alexander Sczyrba, Bielefeld University, Centrum for Biotechnology (CeBiTec). Registration is free but essential to secure your place on this webinar. www.ebi.ac.uk/training
September 26, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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Join Emily and Conny from @uniprotkb.bsky.social as they guide you through a structured approach to access the data in the UniProtKB and Proteomes sections of the UniProt protein function database.

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

1 October | 15:00 – 16:00 UK time.
Webinar at EMBL-EBI. A guide to UniProt for students and biological scientists. 1 October 2026. 15:00 – 16:00 UK time. Webinar speakers: Emily Bowler-Barnett. Senior Scientific Curator, EMBL-EBI and Conny Wing-Heng Yu, Scientific Database Curator at EMBL-EBI.
September 24, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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Our AlphaFold use cases webinar series begins on 7 October. Join us to explore the use of AlphaFold-predicted protein structures for drug discovery against Chagas disease.

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

@pdbeurope.bsky.social #AlphaFold
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Using AlphaFoldprotein modelsfor structure-based virtual screening of chemical libraries. 7 October 2026. 10:00-11:00 UK time. Albert Ros-Lucas. Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
September 23, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Together with @blueremediomics.bsky.social and @bluetools-project.eu, we're hosting the webinar series 'Exploring and harnessing marine microbiomes for a sustainable blue bioeconomy' from 2 October – 13 November 2026: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/eve...

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September 18, 2026 at 2:47 PM