Norma Paniego
normap.bsky.social
Norma Paniego
@normap.bsky.social
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The latest Galaxy newsletter is here! 📰✨

Catch up on Galaxy 26.1, Galaxy Labs, UseGalaxy Canada, research and training highlights, community news, jobs, and upcoming events across the Galaxy ecosystem.

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Galaxy Newsletter September 2026
Explore Galaxy 26.1 and Galaxy Labs, welcome UseGalaxy Canada, see how Galaxy Australia is simplifying data movement, discover Galaxy-powered wildlife ecology and public-health workflows, and find job...
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September 9, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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A 300-million-year-old tree species declared extinct in the wild in the 1990s now numbers around 10,000 mature trees. China’s cliff cypress survives in and around Chongqing’s Xuebaoshan reserve, the product of two decades of seed-banking and propagation work buff.ly/cGHwM0M
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Species classified extinct makes comeback in Chongqing reserve
After being declared extinct, the ancient cliff cypress — a 300-million-year-old "living fossil" — has staged a stunning comeback in Southwest China's Chongqing, thanks to a two-decade-long…
www.chinadaily.com.cn
September 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Excited to share Fold on Tight! 🎉

We distil recent advances in plant immunity into 10 lessons for using AI structure prediction critically and effectively, in plants and beyond.

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September 10, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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At the start of 2026, EMBL lost long-serving colleague and Interim Director General Peer Bork. Join us in commemorating Peer and his legacy at the #EMBLBorkMemorial.

Submit your abstract by 10 November: s.embl.org/pbs27-01-bl
September 7, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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From #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | Developing a web-based platform for Eragrostis tef resource management and analysis | #Bioinformatics #WebServer #Genomics #OpenScience #Proteomics #Cheminformatics #Ethiopia #Plant #CerealCrop | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓🇪🇹
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Developing a web-based platform for Eragrostis tef resource management and analysis
Abstract. Developing a web-based platform is beneficial for data accessibility, centralization, security, management, and scalability. Eragrostis tef is an
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August 28, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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From #OUP 's #DATABASE journal | Improving annotation, access, and comparison of nutritional composition data for underutilized crops | #Bioinformatics #Plant #Crop #UnderutilizedCrops #OpenScience #FAIR #Ontology #OBDI | 🧬🖥️🧪🔓
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Improving annotation, access, and comparison of nutritional composition data for underutilized crops
Abstract. Open and interoperable data infrastructures are essential to advancing food and nutritional security research, yet few data management systems ar
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August 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM
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🌐 Just published in Bioinformatics Advances: "Bioinformatics in Español: Expanding open, diverse, and collaborative science through SEH2Bioinfo" 

Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbag182
August 13, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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The sorghum pangenome, available on the JGI’s Phytozome portal, opens more possibilities to breed sorghum and other crops for biofuels and bioproducts. Learn more in the latest episode of Genome Insider:

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A Spectrum of Sorghum | Joint Genome Institute
Hear from Nadia Shakoor (Donald Danforth Plant Science Center), John Lovell (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology), and Jeremy Schmutz (head of the JGI’s Plant Program, HudsonAlpha) about how a sor...
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August 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Six months after joining EMBL-EBI, Cath Brooksbank accidentally deleted the Gene Ontology knowledgebase – then reinstated it at 6 p.m. on a Friday.

Her willingness to step into the unfamiliar and own it defines Cath’s career.

Her lessons on trust and training below 👇
www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/p...
Cath Brooksbank: What I’ve learned
After building one of the world’s leading bioinformatics training programmes, Cath Brooksbank reflects on trust and how to never lose your enthusiasm for science
www.ebi.ac.uk
July 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Do you work with genetic resources collected elsewhere 🧬 ?
Are you confident that you’re using them fairly and legally?

New step-by-step guide to the Nagoya Protocol helps researchers navigate this complex framework.

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May 13, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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I am so happy to see this manuscript finally out!!! We review and discuss all analysis steps in long reads transcriptomics. Hope the community finds this useful! Hugo thanks to @carolinamonzo.bsky.social and @tianyuanliu.bsky.social for the huge work!!! @longtrec.bsky.social @hitseq.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Honored to deliver the opening keynote talk at the Modern Benchmarking Conferene in Ascona a very much needed meeting organizad by @markrobinsonca.bsky.social @iscb.bsky.social sites.google.com/view/ascona2...
Ascona 2025
Modern Benchmarking: Advancing Computational Methods in Molecular Biology is an event dedicated to bringing together researchers and students from bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular biol...
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March 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM